A multi-species occupancy modeling approach to access the impacts of land use and land cover on terrestrial vertebrates in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), Western Ghats, India

• Sameer Bajaru ,

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

  * E-mail: s.bajaru@bnhs.org

  Affiliation Natural History Collection Department, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1321-8335

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• Saunak Pal,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Natural History Collection Department, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8267-4708

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• Mrugank Prabhu,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Natural History Collection Department, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India

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• Pinal Patel,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Environmental Research and Education (CERE), Mumbai, India

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• Rahul Khot,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Natural History Collection Department, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6215-6965

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• Deepak Apte

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India

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