11 research outputs found
Potential conflict between future development of natural resources and high-value wildlife habitats in boreal landscapes
The role of cryptogams in runoff and erosion control on bariland in the Nepal Middle Hills of the Southern Himalaya
Coupling landscape-scale diagnostics surveys, on-farm experiments, and simulation to identify entry points for sustainably closing rice yield gaps in Nepal
Nutrient responses of wheat and rapeseed under different crop establishment and fertilization methods in contrasting agro-ecological conditions in Nepal
Effects of land use and land cover change on ecosystem services in the Koshi River Basin, Eastern Nepal
Ethnobotany of the Himalayas: The Nepal, Bhutanese, and Tibetan Himalayas
Plant use in the Nepal Himalaya, recorded in the 6500-year-old text of the Rigveda, ranks among the earliest uses of medicinal plants (Malla and Shakya 1984). Another early account, the Saushrut Nighantu, is perhaps the oldest Nepali medicinal plant book, which was produced during the rule of the Great King Mandev in the fifth century, and records the uses of 278 Nepalese medicinal plants (Subedi and Tiwari 2000; Gewali and Awale 2008). Later compendia of herbal pharmacopoeias such as Chandra Nighantu and Nepali Nighantu published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, respectively, described 750 plants and 971 articles (IUCN Nepal 2004)