Spatial heterogeneity of climate explains plant richness distribution at the regional scale in India

• Poonam Tripathi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: tripathy.poonam@gmail.com, Poonam.Tripathi@icimod.org

  Current address: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal

  Affiliation Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1534-4650

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• Mukunda Dev Behera,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

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• Partha Sarathi Roy

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation NASI Senior Scientist Platinum Jubilee Fellow, System Analysis for Climate Smart Agriculture, Innovation Systems for the Dry lands, ICRISAT, Pathancheru, Hyderabad, India

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