The Himalayas are a global hotspot for biodiversity and endemism, and yet the health of its
natural ecosystems is deteriorating rapidly. Natural ecosystems across the Himalayas are …

Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, hel**
to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and the present. This book is the first to …

Birds are reliable and widely used indicators for conservation planning and monitoring. We
reviewed birds of the Kangchenjunga Landscape, a transboundary complex shared by …

To assess the impact of habitat disturbance on birds in the Yuksom-Dzongri trekking corridor
in western Sikkim, India, the relationships between bird community attributes-including …

Twenty‐five years ago, the snow leopard Uncia uncia, an endangered large cat, was
eliminated from what is now Sagarmatha National Park (SNP). Heavy hunting pressure …

The Himalayas are a global hotspot for bird diversity with a large number of threatened
species, but little is known about seasonal changes in bird communities along elevational …

The impacts of land‐use change on biodiversity in the Himalayas are poorly known,
notwithstanding widespread deforestation and agricultural intensification in this highly …

Resource exploitation and behavioural interference underlie competition among carnivores.
Competition is reduced by specializing on different prey and/or spatio‐temporal separation …

The ecological impact of forest product harvesting is poorly understood despite the reliance
of millions of impoverished households on forest resources. As birds are indicators of …

The growth of mass tourism has led to a wide range of environmental and socio-cultural
problems throughout the world. A central feature of mass tourism is the use and conversion …