Peer-reviewed
journals and book chapters
1.
Tripathee, L., Guo, J.,
Kang, S., Paudyal, R., Huang, J., Sharma, C.M., Zhang, Q., Chen, P.,
Sharma-Ghimire, P., Sigdel, M. 2019. Spatial and temporal distribution of total mercury
in atmospheric wet precipitation at four sites from the Nepal-Himalayas.
Science of the Total Environment 655:1207-1217 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.338).
2.
Jüttner, I., Kociolek,
J.P., Gurung, S., Gurung, A., Sharma, C.M., Levkov, Z., Williams,
D.M., Ector, L. 2018. The genus Gomphonema (Bacillariophyta) in
Rara Lake, Nepal: taxonomy, morphology, habitat distribution, and description
of five new species, and a new record for Gomphoneis qii. Diatom
Research. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0269249X.2018.1528182).
3.
Tripathee, L., Kang, S.,
Guo, J., Paudyal, R., Huang, J., Sharma, C.M., Zhang, Q., Rupakheti, D.,
Chen, P., Sharma, P., Gyawali, A. 2018. Concentration and risk assessments of mercury
along an elevation gradient in soils of the Langtang Himalayas, Nepal. Human
and Ecological Risk Assessment (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10807039.2018.1459180).
4.
Dahal, B.M., Raut, N.,
Gurung, S., Sharma, C.M., Kayastha, R., Shrestha,
A., Gautam, B. 2018. Changing trends in cultivation practices and
adoption of climate adaptive farming in eastern Nepal. Sustainable Agriculture
Research. 7(3):52-62 (DOI: http://doi.org/10.5539/sar.v7n3p52).
5.
Gurung, S., Gurung, A., Sharma,
C., Jüttner, I., Tripathee, L., Bajracharya, R., Raut, N., Pradhananga, P.,
Sitaula, B., Zhang, Y., Kang, S., Guo, J. 2018. Hydrochemistry of Lake
Rara: a high mountain lake in western Nepal. Lakes & Reservoirs: Research
& Management 23(2):87-97 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lre.12218).
6.
Rai, A., Niraula, A., Ghimire,
P., Pandey, A., Gurung, A., Sharma, C.M., Gurung, S.
2018. Assessment of the impacts of trout farming on
water quality using macroinvertebrates as bio-indicators. Journal of Institute
of Science and Technology 22(2):175-182 (http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jist.v22i2.19610).
7. Neupane, B., Chen, P., Kang, S.,
Tripathee, L., Rupakheti, D., Sharma, C.M. 2018. Health risk
assessment of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons over the central
Himalayas. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 24(7):1969-1982 (DOI:
10.1080/10807039.2018.1435254).
8.
Jüttner,
I., Williams, D.M., Gurung, S., Van
de Vijver, B., Levkov, J., Sharma,
C.M., Sharma, S., Cox, E.J. 2017.
The genus Odontidium (Bacillariophyta) in the Himalaya - a preliminary
account of some taxa and their distribution. Phytotaxa 332(1):1-21 (DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.1.1).
9.
Pandey,
A., Sharma, C.M., Kang, S., Zhang,
Q., Tripathee, L., Guo, J., Li, X., Sun, S., Paudyal, R., Acharya, P., Sillanpää,
M. 2017. Mercury concentrations in fish community from Indrawati River,
Nepal. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology 99(4):500-5 (DOI:
10.1007/s00128-017-2161-z).
10.
Raut,
R., Bajracharya, R.M., Sharma, S., Sharma,
C.M., Kang, S., Zhang, Q., Tripathee, L., Chen, P., Rupakheti, D., Guo, J.,
Dongol, B.S. 2017. Potentially toxic trace metals in water and lake-bed
sediment of Panchpokhari, an alpine lake series in the Central Himalayan region
of Nepal. Water, Air & Soil Pollution 228:303 (DOI:
10.1007/s11270-017-3467-5).
11. Ghimire, P., Niraula, A., Rai, A., Pandey, A.,
Gurung, S., Sharma,
C.M. 2017.
Assessment of physico-chemical parameters of Rainbow trout farms for the
evaluation of potential threat to natural streams. International Journal of
Environment 6(2):43-55 (DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ije.v6i2.17361).
12. Rupakheti, D., Tripathee, L., Kang, S., Sharma, C.M., Paudyal, R., Sillanpää,
M. 2017. Assessment of water quality and health risk for toxic trace
elements in urban Phewa and remote Gosainkunda Lakes, Nepal. Human and
Ecological Risk Assessment 23(5):959-73 (DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2017.1292117).
13. Rosseland, B.O., Teien, H.-C., Basnet, S., Borgstrøm,
R., Sharma, C.M. 2017. Trace
elements and organochlorine pollutants in selected fish species from Lake
Phewa, Nepal. Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry 99(3):390-401 (DOI: 10.1080/02772248.2016.1189915).
14. Paudyal, R., Kang, S., Sharma, C.M., Tripathee, L., Sillanpää,
M. 2016. Variations of the
physicochemical parameters and metal levels and their risk assessment in
urbanized Bagmati River, Kathmandu, Nepal. Journal of Chemistry (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6025905).
15. Tripathee, L., Kang, S., Sharma, C.M., Rupakheti, D., Paudyal,
R., Huang, J., Sillanpää, M. 2016.
Preliminary health risk assessment of potentially toxic metals in surface water
of the Himalayan Rivers, Nepal. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and
Toxicology 97(6):855-62 (DOI: 10.1007/s00128-016-1945-x).
16. Tripathee, L., Kang, S., Rupakheti,
D., Zhang, Q., Bajracharya, R.M., Sharma,
C.M., Huang, J., Gyawali, A., Paudyal, R., Sillanpää, M. 2016. Spatial distribution, sources and
risk assessment of potentially toxic trace elements and rare earth elements in
soils of the Langtang Himalaya, Nepal. Environmental Earth Sciences 75(19):1332
(DOI: 10.1007/s12665-016-6140-1).
17. Kang, S., Huang, J., Wang, F.,
Zhang, Q., Zhang, Y., Li, C., Wang, L., Chen, P., Sharma, C.M., Li, Q., Sillanpää, M., Hou, J., Xu, B., Guo, J. 2016. Atmospheric mercury depositional
chronology reconstructed from lake sediment and ice cores in the Himalayas and
Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Science & Technology 50:2859-69 (DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04172).
18.
Paudyal,
R., Kang, S., Sharma, C.M.,
Tripathee, L., Huang, J., Rupakheti, D., Sillanpää, M. 2016. Major ions and trace elements of
two selected rivers near Everest region, southern Himalayas, Nepal.
Environmental Earth Sciences 75:46 (DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4811-y).
19.
Raut,
R., Bajracharya, R.M., Sharma, S., Sharma,
C.M., Dongol, B.S. 2015.
Seasonal variation of water chemistry of Panchpokhari: a case study of an
alpine lake series in the Central Himalayas. Jacobs Journal of Hydrology 1(1):002.
20.
Sharma, C.M., Dangal, M.R., Shrestha-Pradhan,
N., Thapa-Lama, R.K., Rai, S.K. 2015.
Mountains and Rivers: impacts of and responses to flash flood in a mountainous river:
A case study from the Seti River in Nepal. Jacobs Journal of Hydrology
1(1):005.
21.
Sharma, C.M. 2015. Can bio-manipulation be related
to fisheries and aquaculture through environmental perspective? Fisheries and
Aquaculture Journal 6(1):1000e116 (DOI: 10.4172/2150-3508.10000e116).
22.
Sharma,
C.M., Kang, S.,
Sillanpää, M., Li, Q., Zhang, Q., Huang, J., Tripathee, L., Sharma, S., Paudyal,
R. 2015. Mercury and selected trace
elements from a remote (Gosainkunda) and an urban (Phewa) lake waters of Nepal.
Water, Air and Soil Pollution 226:6 (DOI: 10.1007/s11270-014-2276-3).
23.
Dahal,
K.R., Dhital D., Sharma, C.M. 2015.
Economic activities associated with extraction of riverbed materials in the
Tinau River, Nepal. International Journal of Economics & Management Science
4(6):263 (DOI: 10.4172/2162-6359.1000263).
24.
Dahal,
K.R., Manandhar, M., Sharma, C.M. 2015.
People’s perception on impact of climate change in PaschimAmawa and Tikuligadh
village development committee (VDC) of Rupandehi district, Nepal. International
Journal of Environment 4(1):141-60 (DOI: 10.3126/ije.v4i1.12185).
25.
Thapa,
D.S., Sharma, C.M., Kang, S., Sillanpää, M. 2014. The risk of mercury exposure to the people consuming fish
from Lake Phewa, Nepal. International Journal of Environmental Research and
Public Health 11:6771-9 (DOI: 10.3390/ijerph110706771).
26.
Tripathee,
L., Kang, S., Huang, J., Sharma, C.M., Sillanpää, M., Guo, J., Paudyal,
R. 2014. Concentrations of trace
elements in the wet deposition over the Central Himalayas, Nepal. Atmospheric
Environment 95:231-8 (DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.06.043).
27. Tripathee, L., Kang, S., Huang, J., Sillanpää, M., Sharma, C.M., Lüthi, Z.L., Guo, J., Paudyal, R. 2014. Ionic
composition of wet precipitation over the southern slope of central Himalayas,
Nepal. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 21(4):2677-87 (DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-2197-5).
28.
Sharma,
C.M., Basnet, S., Kang, S., Rosseland, B.O., Zhang, Q.,
Pan, K., Borgstrøm, R., Li, Q., Wang, W.-X., Huang, J., Teien, H.-K., Sharma,
S. 2013. Mercury concentrations in commercial fish species of Lake
Phewa, Nepal. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 91:272-7
(DOI: 10.1007/s00128-013-1055-y).
29. Dahal, K.R., Sharma, C.M., Gupta, R.K. 2013. Threats on fisheries resources and fishers'
livelihood due to riverbed extraction in the Tinau River, Nepal. Journal of
Sustainable Environmental Research 2(1):1-11.
30. Dahal, K.R., Sharma, S., Sharma, C.M. 2012. A
review of riverbed extraction and its effects on aquatic environment with
special reference to Tinau River, Nepal. Hydro Nepal 11:49-56 (DOI: 10.3126/hn.v11i0.7163).
31. Dahal, K.R., Sharma, S., Sharma, C.M.,
Bajracharya, R.M. 2012. Effects of riverbed extraction on physico-chemical
parameters of Tinau River, Nepal. International Journal of Development and
Sustainability 1(2):255-67.
32. Raut, R., Sharma, S., Bajracharya, R.M., Sharma, C.M., Gurung, S. 2012. Physico-chemical characterization of Gosainkunda
Lake. Nepal Journal of Science and Technology 13:107-14 (DOI: 10.3126/njst.v13i1.7449).
33. Li, C., Kang, S., Zhang, Q., Sharma, C.M. 2012. Effectiveness of rare earth elements on different materials: a case
study in central Asia. Environmental Earth Sciences 67:1415-21 (DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1586-2).
34. Sharma, C.M., Sharma, S., Bajracharya, R.M., Gurung, S., Jüttner, I., Kang, S.,
Zhang, Q., Li, Q. 2012. First results on bathymetry and limnology of
high-altitude lakes in the Gokyo Valley, Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park,
Nepal. Limnology 13:181-92 (DOI: 10.1007/s10201-011-0366-0).
35.
Van de Vijver, B., Jüttner,
I., Gurung, S., Sharma,
C., Sharma, S., de Haan, M.,
Cox, E.J. 2011. The genus Cymbopleura
(Cymbellales,
Bacillariophyta) from high altitude freshwater habitats, Everest National Park,
Nepal, with the description of two new species. Fottea 11:245-69 (DOI: 10.5507/fot.2011.025).
36.
Jüttner, I., Gurung, S., Sharma, C., Sharma, S., de Haan, M., Van de Vijver, B. 2010. Morphology of new taxa in the Cymbella aspera
and Cymbella neocistula groups, Cymbella yakii sp. nov., and Cymbella
cf. hantzschiana from Everest National Park, Nepal. Polish Botanical
Journal 55:73-92.
37.
Li, C., Kang, S., Zhang,
Q., Gao, S., Sharma, C.M. 2010. Heavy
metals in sediments of the Yarlung Tsangbo and its connection with arsenic
problem in Ganges-Brahmaputra basin. Environmental Geochemistry and Health
33:23-32 (DOI: 10.1007/s10653-010-9311-0).
38.
Jüttner,
I., Krammer, K., Vijver, B.V., Tuji, A., Simkhada,
B., Gurung, S., Sharma, S., Sharma, C.,
Cox, E.J. 2010. Oricymba
(Cymbellales,
Bacillariophyceae), a new cymbelloid genus and three new species from the
Nepalese Himalaya. Phycologia 49(5):407-23 (DOI: 10.2216/09-77.1).
39.
Gurung, S., Sharma, S., Sharma, C.M. 2009. A
brief review on limnological status of high altitude lakes in Nepal. Journal of
Wetlands Ecology 3:12-22 (DOI: 10.3126/jowe.v3i0.2387).
40.
Sharma,
C.M., Rosseland,
B.O., Almvik, M., Eklo, O.M. 2009.
Bioaccumulation of organochlorine pollutants in the fish community in Lake
Årungen. Environmental Pollution 157:2452-58 (DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.03.007).
41.
Sharma,
C.M. 2008.
Freshwater fishes, fisheries, and habitat prospects of Nepal. Aquatic Ecosystem
Health & Management 11:289-97 (DOI: 10.1080/14634980802317329).
42.
Sharma, C.M.,
Borgstrøm, R. 2008. Increased population density of
pike Esox lucius – a result of
selective exploitation of large individuals. Ecology of Freshwater Fish
17:590-6 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2008.00310.x).
43.
Sharma, C.M.,
Borgstrøm, R., Jørgen, H., Rosseland, B.O. 2008.
Selective exploitation
of large pike Esox lucius– Effects on mercury concentrations in fish
populations. Science of the Total Environment 399:33-40 (DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.03.026).
44.
Sharma, C.M., Borgstrøm,
R. 2008. Shift in density, habitat use and diet
of perch and roach: An effect of changed predation pressure after manipulation
of pike. Fisheries Research 91(1):98-106 (DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2007.11.011).
45.
Sharma, C.M.,
Borgstrøm, R. 2007. Age determination and back-calculation
of pike length through use of the metapterygoid bone. Journal of Fish Biology
70:1636-41 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2007.01435.x).
46. Sharma,
C.M., Sharma, S., Borgstrom, R., Bryceson, I. 2005.
Impacts of a small dam on macroinvertebrates: a case study in the Tinau River,
Nepal. Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management 8:267-75 (DOI: 10.1080/14634980500218332).