Vegetation dynamics and soil nutrient availability in a temperate forest along altitudinal gradient of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Western Himalaya, India

• Ajay Maletha ,

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

  * E-mail: maletha.jay@gmail.com, amaletha@amity.edu (AM); ajay.sharma@ufl.edu (AS)

  Affiliations Amity Institute of Forestry and Wildlife, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (NIHE), Garhwal Regional Centre, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India

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• Rakesh Kumar Maikhuri,

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

  Affiliations G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (NIHE), Garhwal Regional Centre, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India, Department of Environmental Science, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India

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• Surendra Singh Bargali,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Botany, DSB Campus, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6341-0945

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• Ajay Sharma ,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maletha.jay@gmail.com, amaletha@amity.edu (AM); ajay.sharma@ufl.edu (AS)

  Affiliation West Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Milton, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9159-5534

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• Vikram Singh Negi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (NIHE), Kosi-Katarmal, Almora, Uttarakhand, India

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• Lakhpat Singh Rawat

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (NIHE), Garhwal Regional Centre, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India

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