Micro-habitat distribution drives patch quality for sub-tropical rocky plateau amphibians in the northern Western Ghats, India

• Christopher J. Thorpe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher J. Thorpe, Todd R. Lewis

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

  * E-mail: Christopher.thorpe@plymouth.ac.uk (CJT); ecolewis@gmail.com(TRL)

  Affiliation Ecology and Evolution Research Group, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1045-8408

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• Todd R. Lewis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher J. Thorpe, Todd R. Lewis

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Christopher.thorpe@plymouth.ac.uk (CJT); ecolewis@gmail.com(TRL)

  Affiliation Westfield, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom

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• Siddharth Kulkarni,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation George Washington University, Washington D.C., United States of America

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• Aparna Watve,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Taljapur, Osmanabad, Maharashtra, India

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• Nikhil Gaitonde,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Kodigehalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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• David Pryce,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ecology and Evolution Research Group, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

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• Lewis Davies,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ecology and Evolution Research Group, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

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• David T. Bilton,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecology and Evolution Research Group, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

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• Mairi E. Knight

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecology and Evolution Research Group, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom

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