Ecological niche modelling of two water-dependant birds informs the conservation needs of riverine ecosystems outside protected area network in the Eastern Himalaya, India

• Roshan Tamang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Roshan Tamang, Vallanattu James Jins

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ecology, Biogeography and Conservation Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Sikkim University, Tadong, Gangtok, East Sikkim, India

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• Vallanattu James Jins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Roshan Tamang, Vallanattu James Jins

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ecology, Biogeography and Conservation Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Sikkim University, Tadong, Gangtok, East Sikkim, India

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• Sailendra Dewan,

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

  Affiliation Ecology, Biogeography and Conservation Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Sikkim University, Tadong, Gangtok, East Sikkim, India

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• Shivaji Chaudhry,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Seema Rawat,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

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• Bhoj Kumar Acharya

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bkacharya@cus.ac.in, acharya2skm@gmail.com

  Affiliation Ecology, Biogeography and Conservation Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Sikkim University, Tadong, Gangtok, East Sikkim, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3936-1682

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