Not seeing the grass for the trees: Timber plantations and agriculture shrink tropical montane grassland by two-thirds over four decades in the Palani Hills, a Western Ghats Sky Island

• M. Arasumani,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INTACH-Kodaikanal, Melati, Wilbet house, Kodaikanal, India, The Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati (IISER-Tirupati), Mangalam, Tirupati, India

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• Danish Khan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation INTACH-Kodaikanal, Melati, Wilbet house, Kodaikanal, India

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• Arundhati Das,

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

  Affiliation Arundhati Das, Samvriddhi Gardenia, Byatarayanapura, Bangalore, India

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• Ian Lockwood,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Overseas School of Colombo, Sri Lanka

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• Robert Stewart,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vattakanal Conservation Trust, Vattakanal, Kodaikanal, India

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• Ravi A. Kiran,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Botanical Survey of India, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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• M. Muthukumar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Milind Bunyan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milind Bunyan, V. V. Robin

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

  Affiliation Ashoka Trust for in Research on Ecology and the Environment, Srirampura, Bangalore, India

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• V. V. Robin

  Contributed equally to this work with: Milind Bunyan, V. V. Robin

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

  * E-mail: robinvijayan@gmail.com

  Affiliations INTACH-Kodaikanal, Melati, Wilbet house, Kodaikanal, India, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati (IISER-Tirupati), Mangalam, Tirupati, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3109-5498

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