About the Authors

Ahsaan Ali

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

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Christian Sonne

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecoscience, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

Mehmood Aslam

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Imran Ali

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KEO International Consultants, United Kingdom

Sajjad Hussain

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, Punjab Wildlife and Parks Department, Lahore, Pakistan

Abdul Qadir

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Shazia Sukhera

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Hassan Ali

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Punjab Wildlife and Parks Department, Lahore, Pakistan

Sajid Rashid Ahmad

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Guang Yang

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

gyang@njnu.edu.cn

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.