Giant trees enhance zoochorous plant dispersal in sacred groves and human settlements of the Western Ghats, India

• Omkar Pai ,

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

  * E-mail: omkar.pai@aerfindia.org (OP); matteskc@miamioh.edu (KM)

  Affiliation Applied Environmental Research Foundation, Pune, India

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8710-2013

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• Jayant Sarnaik ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jayant Sarnaik, Archana Godbole

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Applied Environmental Research Foundation, Pune, India

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• Archana Godbole ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jayant Sarnaik, Archana Godbole

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Applied Environmental Research Foundation, Pune, India

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• Gunwant Mahajan ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Applied Environmental Research Foundation, Pune, India

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• Akshay Gawade ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Applied Environmental Research Foundation, Pune, India

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• Kevin Matteson

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: omkar.pai@aerfindia.org (OP); matteskc@miamioh.edu (KM)

  Affiliation Project Dragonfly/Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America

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