scholarly journals Vegetation expansion in the subnival Hindu Kush Himalaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 1608-1625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Anderson ◽  
Dominic Fawcett ◽  
Anthony Cugulliere ◽  
Sophie Benford ◽  
Darren Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hindu Kush ◽  
Vegetation Expansion

Abundance of canids and human canid conflict in the Hindu Kush Mountain range of Pakistan

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaffar Ud Din ◽  
Shoaib Hameed ◽  
Khurshid Ali Shah ◽  
Muhammad Ayub Khan ◽  
Siraj Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Range ◽  
Hindu Kush

Geology and mineral resources of the Chitral-Partsan area, Hindu Kush Range, northern Pakistan

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Alfred Calkins ◽  
S. Jamiluddin ◽  
K. Bhuyan ◽  
A. Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
Hindu Kush

scholarly journals Large-Scale Analysis of the Spatiotemporal Changes of Net Ecosystem Production in Hindu Kush Himalayan Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1180
Author(s):  
Da Guo ◽  
Xiaoning Song ◽  
Ronghai Hu ◽  
Xinming Zhu ◽  
Yazhen Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Net Primary Production ◽  
Carbon Sink ◽  
Carbon Sources ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
Geostatistical Model ◽  
Hindu Kush ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The Difference

The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is one of the most ecologically vulnerable regions in the world. Several studies have been conducted on the dynamic changes of grassland in the HKH region, but few have considered grassland net ecosystem productivity (NEP). In this study, we quantitatively analyzed the temporal and spatial changes of NEP magnitude and the influence of climate factors on the HKH region from 2001 to 2018. The NEP magnitude was obtained by calculating the difference between the net primary production (NPP) estimated by the Carnegie–Ames Stanford Approach (CASA) model and the heterotrophic respiration (Rh) estimated by the geostatistical model. The results showed that the grassland ecosystem in the HKH region exhibited weak net carbon uptake with NEP values of 42.03 gC∙m−2∙yr−1, and the total net carbon sequestration was 0.077 Pg C. The distribution of NEP gradually increased from west to east, and in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, it gradually increased from northwest to southeast. The grassland carbon sources and sinks differed at different altitudes. The grassland was a carbon sink at 3000–5000 m, while grasslands below 3000 m and above 5000 m were carbon sources. Grassland NEP exhibited the strongest correlation with precipitation, and it had a lagging effect on precipitation. The correlation between NEP and the precipitation of the previous year was stronger than that of the current year. NEP was negatively correlated with temperature but not with solar radiation. The study of the temporal and spatial dynamics of NEP in the HKH region can provide a theoretical basis to help herders balance grazing and forage.

scholarly journals The Hindu Kush slab break-off as revealed by deep structure and crustal deformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia-Katerina Kufner ◽  
Najibullah Kakar ◽  
Maximiliano Bezada ◽  
Wasja Bloch ◽  
Sabrina Metzger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Penetration Depth ◽  
Continental Crust ◽  
Crustal Deformation ◽  
Deep Structure ◽  
Continental Collision ◽  
Variable Degree ◽  
Finite Frequency ◽  
Hindu Kush ◽  
Short Times

AbstractBreak-off of part of the down-going plate during continental collision occurs due to tensile stresses built-up between the deep and shallow slab, for which buoyancy is increased because of continental-crust subduction. Break-off governs the subsequent orogenic evolution but real-time observations are rare as it happens over geologically short times. Here we present a finite-frequency tomography, based on jointly inverted local and remote earthquakes, for the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan, where slab break-off is ongoing. We interpret our results as crustal subduction on top of a northwards-subducting Indian lithospheric slab, whose penetration depth increases along-strike while thinning and steepening. This implies that break-off is propagating laterally and that the highest lithospheric stretching rates occur during the final pinching-off. In the Hindu Kush crust, earthquakes and geodetic data show a transition from focused to distributed deformation, which we relate to a variable degree of crust-mantle coupling presumably associated with break-off at depth.

Re-appraisal of earthquake catalog in the Pamir―Hindu Kush region, emphasizing the early and modern instrumental earthquake events

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahid Rahman ◽  
Khaista Rehman ◽  
Wajid Ali ◽  
Amir Ali ◽  
Paul Burton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Earthquake Catalog ◽  
Hindu Kush
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