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The dissertation examines the impacts that limited resources and the disruption of international (i.e., trans-Himalayan) trade networks have had on the populations of Sama and Lho, highland Tibetan communities in Nepal's Nubri Valley. Using primary Tibetan sources and oral narra…

Historically, many ecological models have focused on large-scale attributes of communities such as population density or species interaction coefficients. However, the importance of individual variation and small-scale events to the understanding of large-scale ecological proces…