Early onset of aridity in the past millennium: Insights from vegetation dynamics and climate change in the alpine, cold-desert region of Trans Himalaya, India

• Ruchika B. Mohanty ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ruchikabajpayee@gmail.com (RBM); ratan_kar@bsip.res.in (RK)

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, India

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• Amit K. Mishra,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8091-6665

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• Kriti Mishra,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Central Ground Water Board, North Western Region, Chandigarh, India

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• Akhilesh K. Yadava,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India

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• M. Firoze Quamar,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India

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• Iswar C. Barua,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, India

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• Ratan Kar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ruchikabajpayee@gmail.com (RBM); ratan_kar@bsip.res.in (RK)

  Affiliations Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0572-0798

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