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This paper argues that the altitude-oriented “mixed mountain agriculture” model in which mountain dwellers move to higher altitudes in summer and lower ones in winter does not fit the empirical situation in many areas of the Himalayas where north-south or latitudinally differentiated habitat and production zones play important and, in some instances, central roles.
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Goldstein, M.C., Messerschmidt, D.A. The significance of latitudinality in Himalayan mountain ecosystems. Hum Ecol 8, 117–134 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01531438
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