assiganga stream is an important tributary of bhagirathi river in central himalaya (india). the stream is characterized by heterogeneity in habitat and substratum features harboring diverse fish fauna. at present this stream is facing threat of being fragmented by the construction of two hydro-electric projects. present study aimed to study fish diversity and their habitat use in assiganga stre...

Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Science, Dehradun, Pin code248140 Associate Professor, Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Science, Dehradun Pin code248140 Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Himalayan Institute of Medical Science, Dehradun-Pin code248140 PG resident , Department of Obstetric and Gynaecolog...

Wolves in the Himalayan region form a monophyletic lineage distinct from the present-day Holarctic grey wolf Canis lupus spp. (Linnaeus 1758) found across Eurasia and North America. Here, we analyse phylogenetic relationships and the geographic distribution of mitochondrial DNA haplotypes of the contemporary Himalayan wolf (proposed in previous studies as Canis himalayensis) found in Central As...

HIMALAYAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCES VOL 2 ISSUE 3 JAN-JUNE 2004 Jack D Ives ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Himalayan perceptions: Environmental change and the well-being ...

The hypothesis that abrupt spatial gradients in erosion can cause high strain rates in active orogens has been supported by numerical models that couple erosional processes with lithospheric deformation via gravitational feedbacks. Most such models invoke a 'stream-power' rule, in which either increased discharge or steeper channel slopes cause higher erosion rates. Spatial variations in precip...

Geodetic and seismologic studies support a tectonic model for the central Himalaya wherein ~2 cm/yr of Indo-Asian convergence is accommodated along the primary décollement under the range, the Main Himalayan thrust. A steeper midcrustal ramp in the Main Himalayan thrust is commonly invoked as driving rapid rock uplift along a range-parallel band in the Greater Himalaya. This tectonic model, dev...

The traditional agriculture land use system in Indian Himalayan region is an integral part of the society and local environment as in that the crop husbandry, animal husbandry and forests constitute interlinked systems. But due to variety of factors the land use under traditional crops is changing very fast in a part of Indian Himalayan region. This kind of land intensification is a severe thre...

[1] Erosional exhumation and topography in mountain belts are temporally and spatially variable over million year timescales because of changes in both the location of deformation and climate. We investigate spatiotemporal variations in exhumation across a 150 250 km compartment of the NW Himalaya, India. Twenty-four new and 241 previously published apatite and zircon fission track and white mi...

Vocal divergence within species often corresponds to morphological, environmental, and genetic differences between populations. Wolf howls are long-range signals that encode individual, group, and subspecies differences, yet the factors that may drive this variation are poorly understood. Furthermore, the taxonomic division within the Canis genus remains contended and additional data are requir...