Habitat preference and den characterization of Indian Pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) in a tropical lowland forested landscape of southwest Sri Lanka

• Hasitha Karawita ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hasitha Karawita, Priyan Perera

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

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• Priyan Perera ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hasitha Karawita, Priyan Perera

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

  * E-mail: priyan@sjp.ac.lk

  Affiliations Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka, IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9452-4790

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• Pabasara Gunawardane ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

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• Nihal Dayawansa

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences, University of Colombo, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka

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