Original ResearchPublished 12 October 2026Glacier change at the ISM-MLW transition: multi-decadal evidence of spatial heterogeneity from the Sara Umga watershed, western HimalayaSoumik Das · Suresh Das · Sandip Tanu Mandal · Elora Chakraborty · Prachi Rajput · Ishita Manna · Sanjay Deswal · Milap Chand SharmaFrontiers in Earth Sciencedoi 10.3389/feart.2026.1896483
ReviewPublished 12 October 2026Advanced soilless cultivation of medicinal plants: integrating dynamic LED lighting, elicitation, and smart technologies for sustainable biomass and phytochemical productionAmit Kumar · Kanika · Shashi Rani · Ashish Rambhau WarghatFrontiers in Plant Sciencedoi 10.3389/fpls.2026.1970412
Original ResearchPublished 2 October 2026Gas preservation conditions of Cambrian Niutitang formation shale in western margin of Xuefeng uplift, SE China-based on the analysis of paleofluidZhiwei Fan · Xiang Ge · Jing Han · Qingqing Lei · Hao Wu · Yi ZhangFrontiers in Earth Sciencedoi 10.3389/feart.2026.1958365
Original ResearchPublished 29 September 2026Sustaining hill agriculture: climate-smart integrated farming systems for tribal smallholders in Eastern Himalayas, IndiaMoloy Sarmah Baruah · Mokidul Islam · Prasanta Kumar Pathak · Amulya Kumar MohantyFrontiers in Agronomydoi 10.3389/fagro.2026.1946224
Original ResearchPublished 24 September 2026Women, cuckoos, and new generations among darkening peaks: temporalities of climate crisis in the Himalayas and beyondHildegard DiembergerFrontiers in Climatedoi 10.3389/fclim.2026.1856611
Original ResearchPublished 21 September 2026Machine learning-based prediction of soil aggregate stability for sustainable land management in the eastern Himalayan region of IndiaSuryakant Gupta · Prachi Yadav · Jagabandhu Panda · Kiran Bala Behura · Subhankar Ghosh · Laishram Kanta Singh · Sougrakpam Roma Devi · Mainak Ghosh · Amulya Kumar Mohanty · Prasanta Kumar PathakFrontiers in Soil Sciencedoi 10.3389/fsoil.2026.1937878
Original ResearchPublished 14 September 2026Fruit tree-based agroforestry as a nature-based solution for carbon sequestration in the vulnerable Eastern Himalayan ecosystem: plant–soil microbe feedbacks in the context of global changeAshish Singh · Uttam Kumar SahooFrontiers in Forests and Global Changedoi 10.3389/ffgc.2026.1921800
Original ResearchPublished 11 September 2026First report of Ichthyobodo necator, a flagellate protozoan parasite, in Schizothorax niger from the River Jhelum in the Kashmir Himalayas, IndiaIshrat Shafi · Asifa Wali · Feroz A. Shah · Gowhar Iqbal · Shabir Ahmad Dar · Nazir Ah SofiFrontiers in Aquaculturedoi 10.3389/faquc.2026.1846130
Original ResearchPublished 8 September 2026Quantifying aboveground biomass and carbon stock in Drepanostachyum falcatum , a temperate Himalayan bamboo in India: an allometric modeling frameworkIndra Singh · Sadikul Islam · V.P. Khanduri · Pravin Rawat · C.S. Dhanai · Aman Dabral · JMS Tomar · Pritam Ayush · Abhay Kumar · Saraswati Prakash Sati · Manoj Kumar Riyal · Gaddam Sudharshan ReddyFrontiers in Ecology and Evolutiondoi 10.3389/fevo.2026.1872137
Original ResearchPublished 3 September 2026Multiscale analysis of satellite-derived climatic parameters over Himalayan foothills in view of climate change scenariosSameer Rawat · Sanjeev Kimothi · Asha Thapliyal · Pradeep Kumar · Salem AliFrontiers in Climatedoi 10.3389/fclim.2026.1893768
Original ResearchPublished 1 September 2026A robust multi-criteria and rank-stability framework for station-scale evaluation and ranking of CMIP6 GCM precipitation over the Jhelum River BasinMuzamil Hassan Lone · Amit B. Mahindrakar · Kumar K.Frontiers in Climatedoi 10.3389/fclim.2026.1880364
Systematic ReviewPublished 31 August 2026Hydrological model performance and uncertainty in a snow-dominated Himalayan Basin: a systematic quantitative synthesis for the Jhelum River Basin (2000–2024)Muzamil Hassan Lone · Amit B. Mahindrakar · Kumar KFrontiers in Waterdoi 10.3389/frwa.2026.1849423
Original ResearchPublished 28 August 2026Assessing temporal sampling uncertainty in hydrological modelling using multi-sensor observations from GPM and TROPICSAjay Sharma · Dibyandu Roy · Indu JFrontiers in Remote Sensingdoi 10.3389/frsen.2026.1863721
PerspectivePublished 14 August 2026Ecological grief in scientific communitiesYasmeen TelwalaFrontiers in Conservation Sciencedoi 10.3389/fcosc.2026.1924073
Original ResearchPublished 3 August 2026Integrative functional profiling of rhizospheric and endophytic bacteria reveals Lelliottia aquatilis as a multifunctional PGPR in Himalayan ecosystemsShikha Devi · Riya Chandel · Damini Thakur · Shweta Pathania · Simran Chauhan · Simran Simran · Nishtha Pathak · Poonam Katoch · Taniya Tyagi · Sushila Devi · Arvind Kumar Bhatt · Sveta ThakurFrontiers in Systems Biologydoi 10.3389/fsysb.2026.1872892
Original ResearchPublished 1 July 2026Characterization of physiological, biochemical, and agronomical traits of elite induced chickpea mutants from the northwestern Himalayan region of the UT of J & K, IndiaSanjeev Kumar · Archana Joshi Saha · Ragini Padha · Gurdev Chand · S. C. Kashyap · R. K. Srivastava · Ayush Kumar Singh · Akshita MahajanFrontiers in Plant Physiologydoi 10.3389/fphgy.2026.1766618
Original ResearchPublished 8 May 2026Mitochondrial marker-based insights into the genetic diversity and population connectivity of the vulnerable (IUCN Red List) snow trout (Schizothorax plagiostomus) from the Tons River, Western HimalayaPooja Badoni · J. V. S. RauthanFrontiers in Aquaculturedoi 10.3389/faquc.2026.1777546
Original ResearchPublished 26 January 2026Transhumance in transition: socio-economic shifts among semi-nomadic Gaddi tribe of Dhauladhar HimalayasAkanksha Tonk · Manvinder KaurPastoralism: Research, Policy and Practicedoi 10.3389/past.2025.15370
Original ResearchPublished 15 January 2026Transcriptomic analysis reveals differential gene expression and metabolic reprogramming in Coptis teeta Wall. under drought and heat stressManabendra Nath · Dip Kumar Bhattacharjya · Preetom Regon · Dikshit Goswami · Khirod Kalita · Kunal Boro · Bikash Kumar Kundu · Bhaben TantiFrontiers in Plant Physiologydoi 10.3389/fphgy.2025.1715857
Plant PhysiologyPublished 22 October 2025Key eco-physiological leaf traits suggest a moderate to high level of thermal tolerance of alpine plants in the Western HimalayaNang Elennie Hopak · Amit ChawlaFrontiers in Plant Physiologydoi 10.3389/fphgy.2025.1652412
Bee SciencePublished 26 July 2024Taxonomic revision and identification keys for the giant honey beesNyaton Kitnya · Axel Brockmann · Gard W. OtisFrontiers in Bee Sciencedoi 10.3389/frbee.2024.1379952
Bee SciencePublished 22 July 2024The distribution of Apis laboriosa revisited: range extensions, biogeographic affinities, and species distribution modellingGard W. Otis · Man-Juan Huang · Nyaton Kitnya · Umer Ayyaz Aslam Sheikh · Abu ul Hassan Faiz · Chinh H. Phung · Natapot Warrit · Yan-Qiong Peng · Xin Zhou · Hlaing Min Oo · Namoona Acharya · Kedar DevkotaFrontiers in Bee Sciencedoi 10.3389/frbee.2024.1374852