About the Authors

Shomita Mukherjee

shomitam@gmail.com

Affiliations National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Anand Krishnan

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Krishnapriya Tamma

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Chandrima Home

Affiliations National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, Royal Enclave, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Navya R

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Sonia Joseph

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Arundhati Das

Affiliation Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, Royal Enclave, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Uma Ramakrishnan

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM AK UR. Performed the experiments: SM AK KT CH NR SJ. Analyzed the data: SM AK AD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UR. Wrote the paper: SM. Helped with niche model analysis and helped in writing that section of the paper: AD.