About the Authors

Nabasmita Malakar

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

nabasmita.atreeblr2023@learner.manipal.edu

Affiliations Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India, Sugadaira Research Station, Mountain Science Centre, University of Tsukuba, Nagano, Japan

Ravikanth Gudasalamani

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

Affiliation Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India

Ganesan Rengaian

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

Affiliation Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.