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Book SynopsisPart I. Seasonal Animal Migration- a unique animal farming system in the Himalayas, features, nomadic pastoral communities, hardy shepherds, migratory patterns and migratory routes, problems and constraint, fate and future.- Chapter 1. Animal Migration/Pastoralism- a unique animal farming system in the Himalayas.- Chapter 2. Salient features of small ruminant migratory farming system.- Chapter 3. Migratory patterns and migratory routes of pastoral small ruminants in the Himalayas.- Chapter 4. Problems/constraints faced by the migratory animals and pastoralists, strategies for their amelioration, current status of migratory pastoralism.- Part II. High Altitude acclimatization and Adaptation of small Ruminants.- Chapter 5. Adaptational Responses to Altitude and Walking Stresses in Small Ruminants.- Part III. Impact of Climate change on transhumance and Herders’ perceptions to changing climate on the migratory system.- Chapter 6. Effect of changing global climate on small ruminant production system.- Chapter 7. Himalayan pastoralists’ perceptions to changing climate and how it is affecting the system and their livelihoods.- Part IV. Minerals and Nutritional Status of alpine gasses and tree leaves of Indian Himalayas.- Chapter 8. Principal minerals limiting production of migratory small ruminants –Salt hunger in grazing sheep.- Chapter 9 Nutritional status of common Himalayan pastures and tree foliage.- Part V. Parasitic Infestations and disorders of small ruminants on Indian Himalayas.- Chapter 10 Helminths and other diseases affecting migratory small ruminants. Chapter 11. Vaccines against gastrointestinal parasitic infections for sustained health and production of small ruminants.
