Environmental variables drive plant species composition and distribution in the moist temperate forests of Northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan

• Inayat Ur Rahman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Inayat Ur Rahman, Robbie E. Hart, Farhana Ijaz, Aftab Afzal, Zafar Iqbal

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

  * E-mail: hajibotanist@outlook.com (IUR); robbie.hart@mobot.org (REH)

  Affiliations Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3312-7975

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• Robbie E. Hart ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Inayat Ur Rahman, Robbie E. Hart, Farhana Ijaz, Aftab Afzal, Zafar Iqbal

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hajibotanist@outlook.com (IUR); robbie.hart@mobot.org (REH)

  Affiliation William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, United States of America

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• Farhana Ijaz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Inayat Ur Rahman, Robbie E. Hart, Farhana Ijaz, Aftab Afzal, Zafar Iqbal

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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• Aftab Afzal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Inayat Ur Rahman, Robbie E. Hart, Farhana Ijaz, Aftab Afzal, Zafar Iqbal

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8388-1709

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• Zafar Iqbal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Inayat Ur Rahman, Robbie E. Hart, Farhana Ijaz, Aftab Afzal, Zafar Iqbal

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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• Eduardo S. Calixto,

  Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Missouri St. Louis (UMSL), Saint Louis, MO, United States of America

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• Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Production, College of Food and Agriculture Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Abdulaziz A. Alqarawi,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Production, College of Food and Agriculture Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Abeer Hashem,

  Roles Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Al-Bandari Fahad Al-Arjani,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Rukhsana Kausar,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Shiekh Marifatul Haq

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India

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