About the Authors

Uttam Babu Shrestha

ubshrestha@yahoo.com

Affiliations University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard University Herbarium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shiva Gautam

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kamaljit S. Bawa

Affiliations University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UBS KSB. Performed the experiments: UBS SG. Analyzed the data: UBS KSB. Wrote the paper: UBS SG KSB.