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Evaluating the ecological vulnerability and adaptive capacity of forest vegetation under climate stress across Nepal’s mountain landscapes Open

Shiva Pokhrel, Chandra Kanta Subedi, Sudeep Thakuri, Ripu M Kunwar, Krishna Prasad Sharma , et al. · 2025

Central Himalayan mountain forests in Nepal are vital for regulating regional climate, conserving biodiversity, and sustaining ecohydrological systems that support millions in mountain and downstream areas. However, they face increasing th…

The nature and status of Fritillaria cirrhosa: A key source of ‘a bi sa’ in Sowa Rigpa Medicine in Nepal Open

Suresh Kumar Ghimire, A. J. Dhami, Gyatso Bista · 2025

Sowa Rigpa, also known as Tibetan or Amchi medicine, is one of the traditional systems of medicine practiced across an extensive region of South, Central, and East Asia. Sowa Rigpa pharmacopeia is based on plants, animals, minerals, and ot…

A Swirling Offering: Climate Change Impacts on Incense and Other Useful Alpine Plants of Bhutan Open

Nima Gyeltshen, Chöki Gyeltshen, Sangay Dema, Suresh Kumar Ghimire, Natalie Konig , et al. · 2025

Climate change impacts on social-ecological systems —such as useful plant harvest— can be elucidated through local perceptions and ecological monitoring. To better understand how these two approaches may show convergent or divergent perspe…

Impacts of climate change on the distribution pattern of Himalayan Rhubarb (Rheum australe D. Don) in Nepal Himalaya Open

Babu Ram Paudel, Chandra Kanta Subedi, Suresh Kumar Ghimire, Dipesh Pyakurel, Meena Rajbhandari , et al. · 2025

While there has been substantial consensus that climate change poses a severe threat to the Himalayan biota; we still lack comprehensive data on the potential impact of climate change on the important Himalayan medicinal plants connected w…

jabbrv-ltwa-all.ldf jabbrv-ltwa-en.ldf Spatiotemporal Impacts of Forest Fires on Mountain Vegetation: A Case Study from Langtang National Park, Nepal Himalaya Open

Shiva Pokhrel, Sudeep Thakuri, Chandra Kanta Subedi, Ripu M. Kunwar, Krishna Sharma , et al. · 2025

A roadmap to sustainable management of commercial medicinal and aromatic plants, fungi, and lichens in Nepal Open

Carsten Smith‐Hall, Dipesh Pyakurel, Thorsten Treue, Mariève Pouliot, Suresh Kumar Ghimire , et al. · 2025

Thousands of plants, fungi, and lichen species are traded every year. Although sustainable use is critical for livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, insufficient data prevent detailed sustainability assessments for most species. How c…

Habitat assessment, population characteristics, and conservation recommendations for Nepali paper plant, Daphne bholua: ensuring the future of handmade paper production in Nepal’s Central Himalayas Open

Bikram Jnawali, James Ojascastro, Ajay Neupane, Shristhi Nepal, Robbie Hart , et al. · 2024

Daphne bholua Buch. -Ham. ex D. Don (Thymelaeaceae) is a woody shrub native to the temperate forests of the Himalaya. Since the 12th century, the bark of D. bholua has been used as a raw material for handmade paper in Nepal, and employed f…

Traditional socio-cultural utilization and harvesting practices of an alpine medicinal herb, Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora in Khumbu Valley, Nepal Open

Narayan Prasad Ghimire, Arati Gurung, Kushal K.C., Mukti Ram Paudel, Hari Datta Bhattarai , et al. · 2023

Background: This study aimed to document the traditional knowledge of people in the Khumbu Valley within Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone in Nepal regarding the utilization and harvesting practices of the Himalayan medicinal plant …

The sustainability of trade in wild plants—A data-integration approach tested on critically endangered Nardostachys jatamansi Open

Carsten Smith‐Hall, Dipesh Pyakurel, Henrik Meilby, Mariève Pouliot, Puspa Lal Ghimire , et al. · 2023

While the demand for many products from wild-harvested plants is growing rapidly, the sustainability of the associated plant trade remains poorly understood and understudied. We integrate ecological and trade data to advance sustainability…

Medicinal plants and their use by an ethnic minority Jirel in Dolakha district, Central Nepal Open

Sangram Karki, Ashis Prakriti Dhital, Yadav Uprety, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2023

Background: Plants are important source of traditional medicine and are used widely in the primary healthcare of indigenous peoples and local communities. Despite a considerable number of ethnobotanical studies in Nepal, there are still se…

Climate change‐induced distributional change of medicinal and aromatic plants in the Nepal Himalaya Open

Uttam Babu Shrestha, Pramod Lamsal, Suresh Kumar Ghimire, Bharat Babu Shrestha, Sajita Dhakal , et al. · 2022

Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) contribute to human well‐being via health and economic benefits. Nepal has recorded 2331 species of MAPs, of which around 300 species are currently under trade. Wild harvested MAPs in Nepal are under in…

Illegal harvesting and livestock grazing threaten the endangered orchid Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D. Don) Soó in Nepalese Himalaya Open

Deep Jyoti Chapagain, Henrik Meilby, Chitra Bahadur Baniya, Shanta Budha‐Magar, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2021

Harvesting of orchids for medicine and salep production is a traditional practice, and increasing market demand is spurring illegal harvest. Ethno‐ecological studies in combination with the effect of anthropogenic disturbance are lacking f…

Saussurea talungensis (Asteraceae), a new species from Humla, Nepal Himalayas Open

Hum Kala Rana, Santosh Kumar Rana, Hang Sun, Kazumi Fujikawa, Dong Luo , et al. · 2021

A new species Saussurea talungensis S.K.Ghimire & H.K.Rana, sp. nov. (sect. Strictae), from Talung valley of Humla district, Nepal, is described and illustrated. Morphologically, this species resembles Saussurea roylei and Saussurea la…

Saussurea talungensis (Asteraceae), a new species from Humla, Nepal Himalayas Open

Hum Kala Rana, Santosh Kumar Rana, Hang Sun, Kazumi Fujikawa, Dong Luo , et al. · 2021

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Rana, Hum Kala, Rana, Santosh Kumar, Sun, Hang, Fujikawa, Kazumi, Luo, Dong, Joshi, Laxmi Raj, Ghimire, Suresh Kumar (2021): Saussurea talungensi…

Ethno-medicinal survey of plants used by Magar (Kham) community, Rolpa district, Western Nepal Open

Shanta Budha‐Magar, Prabin Bhandari, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2020

Background: Medicinal plants (MP) are the primary source of health care in developing countries like Nepal. Specially, indigenous people depend on MP species for their basic livelihood. In this study, we aimed to document MP species and as…

Anthropogenic fire, vegetation structure and ethnobotanical uses in an alpine shrubland of Nepal’s Himalaya Open

Asha Paudel, Scott H. Markwith, Katie Konchar, Mani Shrestha, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2020

Alpine vegetation of the Himalaya is used as food, medicine or fodder, and is commonly managed with fire by agropastoralists. Prescribed fire can have positive effects on rangeland biodiversity, but studies evaluating its effects in alpine…

Orchids of Suspa-Kshamawoti, Dolakha -An annotated checklist Open

Sangram Karki, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2019

Suspa-Kshamawoti area of Dolakha district covers diverse vegetation types and harbors many interesting species of orchids. This paper documents 69 species of orchids covering 33 genera based on repeated field surveys and herbarium collecti…

Plant density and life history traits of Aconitum spicatum in North-central Nepal: effects of elevation and anthropogenic disturbances Open

Deep Jyoti Chapagain, Henrik Meilby, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2019

Increasing cross-border trade of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) has put heavy pressure on a considerable number of species in the Himalayas. One of the threatened species in Nepal is Aconitum spicatum . Unfortunately for this species…

Harvest effects on density and biomass of Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora vary along environmental gradients in the Nepalese Himalayas Open

Mukti Ram Poudeyal, Henrik Meilby, Bharat Babu Shrestha, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2019

A surprisingly large number of species potentially threatened by human harvest lack quantitative ecological studies incorporating harvest effects, especially clonal species in the alpine Himalayas. We studied density and biomass variation …

Trade and conservation of medicinal and aromatic plants in western Nepal Open

Dipesh Pyakurel, Indira Bhattarai Sharma, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2018

This paper quantifies the volume and value of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) traded from Baitadi district in western Nepal. Information related to trade, in the Fiscal Year 2014/015, was collected through pre-tested structured questi…

Marker assisted screening of Nepalese wheat genotypes and advanced lines for resistance to different races of wheat rust species Open

Shishir Prakash Sharma, Suresh Kumar Ghimire, R. K. Niroula, Bishnu Raj Ojha, D. B. Thapa · 2018

Primers tightly linked to genes of interest are valuable tools in rust resistant wheat breeding. A research was conducted with the objective to detect the source of rust resistant genes and further utilize as an important weapon in gene py…

Saussurea ramchaudharyi (Asteraceae), a new species from Nepal Open

Hum Kala Rana, Hang Sun, Asha Paudel, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2018

Saussurea ramchaudharyi Ghimire & Rana, a new species from the alpine slopes of northwestern region of Nepal is described and illustrated. It is closely related to S. topkegolensis and S. gossypiphora, both of which are the members of S. s…

Rana et al 2017_supplementary.pdf Open

Santosh Kumar Rana, Hum Kala Rana, Suresh Kumar Ghimire, Krishna K. Shrestha, Sailesh Ranjitkar · 2018

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Replication Data for: Predicting the impact of climate change on the distribution of two threatened Himalayan medicinal plants of Liliaceae in Nepal Open

Santosh Kumar Rana, Hum Kala Rana, Suresh Kumar Ghimire, Krishna K. Shrestha, Sailesh Ranjitkar · 2018

This dataset was moved to: https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/IQUVQIPredicting the potential distribution of medicinal plants in response to climate change is essential for their conservation and management. Contributing to the management progra…

Impact of Climatic Variability on Sheep Husbandry Practices at Lamjung District Open

Suresh Kumar Ghimire, J.L. Yadav, N. R. Devkota, Somendra Pal Singh · 2017

This study was done with 70 households of Uttarkanya and Bhujung VDC of Lamjung district to assess the impacts of climatic variability on sheep production and to document their adaptation practices to mitigate this variability. Household i…

Perceptions of agro-pastoralists towards the change in temperature and precipitation in the trans-Himalayan regions of Nepal Open

Suman Aryal, Suresh Kumar Ghimire, Yubraj Dhakal, Narayan Prasad Gaire, Suman Bhandari · 2017

Climate change has emerged as a global concern despite its differential impacts across geographical, social and economic gradients. Understanding perceptions of local communities towards climate change is important as it advances the knowl…

Variation in leaf biomass and fruit output of Juniperus indica along an elevation gradient in north-central Nepal Open

Arjun Chapagain, Ram Prasad Chaudhary, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2017

Biomass and reproductive output are important functional traits that influence aspects of plant performance. Measurements of these attributes by harvesting plant parts are often destructive and impractical. Therefore, non-destructive metho…

Variation in Adaptive Traits of an Endemic Meconopsis napaulensis DC. along an Elevation Gradient in Alpine Himalaya, Central Nepal Open

Narmada Rana, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2017

Understanding the pattern of variation in adaptive traits of rare and endemic species along environmental gradient can suggest important implications for developing optimal strategies for species conservation and sustainable management. In…

Distribution pattern and species richness of Liliaceae in the Nepal Himalaya Open

Hum Kala Rana, Santosh Kumar Rana, Suresh Kumar Ghimire · 2017

The most important aspect of plant conservation is to predict the potential distribution and its richness in response to climate change. Contributing to the management program, this study aimed to predict the distribution and richness patt…

Export of medicinal and aromatic plant materials from Nepal Open

Suresh Kumar Ghimire, Bandana Awasthi, Santhosh Rana, Hum Kala Rana, Rameshwar Bhattarai , et al. · 2016

Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have been identified as one of the potential high value commodities in Nepal with huge prospects for economic development. However, data about MAP consumption, volumes of trade and levels of demand are …

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