About the Authors

Babu Ram Lamichhane

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

baburaml@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, Evolutionary Ecology Group, Faculty of Sciences, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, Antwerp, Belgium, National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal

Gerard A. Persoon

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

Herwig Leirs

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evolutionary Ecology Group, Faculty of Sciences, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, Antwerp, Belgium

Shashank Poudel

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal

Naresh Subedi

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal

Chiranjibi Prasad Pokheral

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal

Santosh Bhattarai

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal

Bishnu Prasad Thapaliya

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC), Kathmandu, Nepal

Hans H. de Iongh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Evolutionary Ecology Group, Faculty of Sciences, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, Antwerp, Belgium, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Faculty of Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.