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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving Performance of Testing Laboratories – A Statistical Review and Evaluation
This paper outlines the most common quality challenges testing laboratories are facing during their accreditation process. Accreditation is the independent evaluation of conformity assessment bodies (i.e. Test...
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Article
Strain-dependent oxidant release in articular cartilage originates from mitochondria
Mechanical loading is essential for articular cartilage homeostasis and plays a central role in the cartilage pathology, yet the mechanotransduction processes that underlie these effects remain unclear. Previo...
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South Asia
Forests of the South Asian region, including major ‘hotspots’ of biodiversity, have been sustainably managed for generations by ethnically and culturally diverse traditional societies. The rich traditional for...
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The Unique Character of Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge: Threats and Challenges Ahead
This chapter reflects on the major findings of the lead authors of this book regarding traditional forest-related knowledge (TFRK) using five criteria for distinguishing the unique character of traditional kno...
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Linking Knowledge Systems for Socio-ecological Security
With increasing awareness about the state of our environment, concerns about over-exploitation of resources and issues, not only just biophysical but also socio-economic and cultural dimensions relevant to reh...
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Mountain Biodiversity, Land Use Dynamics and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Traditional mountain societies are characterized by their close interconnection with nature and natural resources. They depend upon natural resources and biodiversity for their sustainable livelihood concerns ...
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The Concept of Sacred Linked to Biological Resource Management in the Himalayan Culture
There is a wide recognition throughout the globe and across disciplines that regions of ecological prudence exhibit a symbiotic relationship between habitats and culture (Arizpe, 1996). This explicates that cu...
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Increasing population and declining biological resources in the context of global change and globalization
In the context of over-consumption of natural resources in the name of development and rapid industrialization by a small section of the human population that is rapidly growing, the world is currently faced w...
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Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Tropical Rain Forest Landscape
A potential impact of climate change in the south Asian context in general and the Indian subcontinent in particular is an increase in rainfall, in some areas up to 50%. Using an extensive information base ava...
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Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Tropical Rain Forest Landscape
A potential impact of climate change in the south Asian context in general and the Indian subcontinent in particular is an increase in rainfall, in some areas up to 50%. Using an extensive information base ava...
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Role of earthworms in nitrogen cycling during the crop** phase of shifting agriculture (Jhum) in north-east India
We investigated the role of earthworms in the N cycle in a shifting agriculture system under a 5- and a 15-year Jhum system fallow period intervening between two crop**s on the same site. Earthworms particip...
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Gap phase regeneration of tree species of differing successional status in a humid tropical forest of Kerala, India
Germination, establishment and growth of seedlings of tree speciesPalaquium ellipticum (primary),Actinodaphne malabarica (late secondary) andMacaranga peltata (early secondary) were studied in a humid tropical fo...
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Energy flow through an Apatani village ecosystem of Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India
The energy flow through the ecosystem of a typical Apatani village in Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India was studied. The energy and economic efficiency of the rice agro-ecosystem of this region is except.....
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Cation budget under terrace agroecosystem in Meghalaya in north-east India
Cation budgeting was done under 4- and 12-year old terraces at higher elevation of Meghalaya (960 m) in north-east India. Cation addition occurred after burning the biomass arising from the weed and the crop r...
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Ethnobiological notes on some tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India
A total of 171 plant species used by the Nishis, the Hill M iris, the Sulungs, and the Apatanis of Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India; 12 animal species used by the Nishis were...
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Agricultural Systems of the Northeastern Hill Region of India
Agriculture is the predominant activity of a large majority of the world population. Industrialization of agriculture through large fuel energy subsidies, sophisticated chemical control of pests and diseases, ...
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Leaf dynamics of early versus late successional shrubs of sub-tropical moist forests of north-eastern India
The two early successional shrubs (Melastoma malabathricum L. andMussenda frondosa L.) are periodic growth leaf-exchanging-types (leaf fall is associated with bud break; leaf span of leaves being approximately 12...
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Growth strategies of early and late successional shrubs from a subtropical moist forest under two light regimes
Two early successional shrubsMallotus indica Muell. andClerodendron infortunatum Gaertn. and two late successional shrubs,Litsea khasiana Meissn. andCombretum flagrocarpum Herb. were studied under both open and s...
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Architecture and growth patterns of early versus late successional shrubs of sub-tropical moist forests of north-eastern India
Growth and architecture of early versus late successional shrubs are compared and contrasted to evaluate their leaf display characteristics. Early successional shrubs had a higher growth rate over an extended ...
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Ecological implications of some cash crop ecosystems in north-eastern India
Energy and economic analysis of cash crops (coffee, tea, ginger and pineapple mixed crop** system) are contrasted with shifting agriculture under a 10-yr cycle in north-eastern India. Though ginger gave maxi...
