How resilient are waterways of the Asian Himalayas? Finding adaptive measures for future sustainability

GR Kattel, A Paszkowski, Y Pokhrel… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The high‐mountain system, a storehouse of major waterways that support important
ecosystem services to about 1.5 billion people in the Himalaya, is facing unprecedented …

Habitat overlap among native and introduced cold-water fishes in the Himalayas

A Jan, I Arismendi, G Giannico, R Flitcroft - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Fish invasions threaten native freshwater ecosystems worldwide, yet methods to map
biodiversity in data-deficient regions are scarce. Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and …

Integrating spatial stream network models and environmental DNA to estimate current and future distributions of nonnative Smallmouth Bass

JJ Winkowski, JD Olden, S Brown - Transactions of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Objective Climate change is fueling the rapid range expansion of invasive species in
freshwater ecosystems. This has led to mounting calls from natural resource managers for …

Do metapopulations and management matter for relict headwater bull trout populations in a warming climate?

DJ Isaak, MK Young, DL Horan, D Nagel… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain headwater streams have emerged as important climate refuges for native cold‐
water species due to their slow climate velocities and extreme physical conditions that inhibit …

Unveiling climatic niches for deeper insights into invasion potential and enhanced distribution models of freshwater fishes

A Jan, G Giannico, I Arismendi… - Ecology of Freshwater …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Introduced species may exhibit variations in their preferred climatic niches between their
native and introduced ranges, which can have important implications for the transferability of …

[PDF][PDF] SSN2: The next generation of spatial stream network modeling in R

M Dumelle, EE Peterson, JM Ver Hoef… - Journal of Open …, 2024 - joss.theoj.org
The SSN2 R package provides tools for spatial statistical modeling, parameter estimation,
and prediction on stream (river) networks. SSN2 is the successor to the SSN R package (Ver …

Mountains host significantly more data deficient and threatened bat species than lowlands

R Chakravarty, V Radchuk, K Suryawanshi… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
Mountains harbour one third of the world's biodiversity and much of it is under increasing
anthropogenic pressure. Yet, global assessments of the occurrence, and threat status of …

India must protect Himalayan headwaters

A Sharma, VK Dubey, YK Rawal, K Sivakumar… - Science, 2022 - science.org
At the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), India pledged to convert
to 50% renewable energy use by 2030 (1). The country plans to achieve this goal by …

Environmental DNA analysis reveals the distribution pattern of a Himalayan hill stream fish

RK Laxmi, N Sehgal, VS Rawat - Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2022 - Springer
Assessment of distribution pattern of species with small populations is a prerequisite for
conservation efforts. In our investigation, we evaluated the use of environmental DNA …

[PDF][PDF] Bayesian design with sampling windows for complex spatial processes

K Buchhorn, K Mengersen… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Optimal design facilitates intelligent data collection. In this paper, we introduce a fully
Bayesian design approach for spatial processes with complex covariance structures, like …