Spatial and climatic variables independently drive elevational gradients in ant species richness in the Eastern Himalaya

• Aniruddha Marathe ,

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

  * E-mail: aniruddha.pravin.marathe@gmail.com

  Affiliations Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Srirampura, Bangalore, India, Manipal University, Manipal, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4632-7143

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• Dharma Rajan Priyadarsanan,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Srirampura, Bangalore, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8137-3404

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• Jagdish Krishnaswamy,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Srirampura, Bangalore, India

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• Kartik Shanker

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Srirampura, Bangalore, India, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

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