About the Authors

Ripu M. Kunwar

rkunwar@fau.edu

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America

Kedar Baral

Affiliation District Forest Office, Baitadi, Nepal

Prashant Paudel

Affiliation Tropical and International Forestry Program, Georg-August University, Gottingen, Germany

Ram P. Acharya

Affiliation Practical Solutions, Kathmandu, Nepal

Khum B. Thapa-Magar

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, New York, New York, United States of America

Mary Cameron

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America

Rainer W. Bussmann

Affiliation William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RMK RWB. Data curation: RMK. Formal analysis: KBTM. Funding acquisition: RMK. Investigation: RMK KB PP RPA. Methodology: RMK RWB. Project administration: RPA PP. Resources: PP RPA KB. Supervision: RWB MC. Validation: RMK RWB MC. Visualization: RMK. Writing – original draft: RMK. Writing – review & editing: RWB MC KB.