About the Authors

Shambhu Paudel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

oasis.excurrent@gmail.com

Affiliations School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry, Pokhara, Nepal

John L. Koprowski

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, Bim Kendall House, Laramie, WY, United States of America

Usha Thakuri

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry, Pokhara, Nepal

Ajay Karki

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Forests and Environment, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.