About the Authors

Andimuthu Ramachandran

andimuthu.ramachandran@gmail.com (AR); radhapriya.cc@gmail.com (PR)

Affiliation Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation Research, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Parthasarathy Radhapriya

andimuthu.ramachandran@gmail.com (AR); radhapriya.cc@gmail.com (PR)

Affiliation Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation Research, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Shanmuganathan Jayakumar

Affiliation Environmental Informatics and Spatial Modelling Lab (EISML), Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

Praveen Dhanya

Affiliation Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation Research, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Rajadurai Geetha

Affiliation Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation Research, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR SJ. Performed the experiments: PR. Analyzed the data: PR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PR RG. Wrote the paper: AR PR PD SJ.