About the Authors

Uttam Babu Shrestha

ubshrestha@yahoo.com

Affiliation Institute for Agriculture and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

Kamaljit S. Bawa

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors confirm that co-author of this manuscript, Kamal Bawa, serves as an academic editor in PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UBS KB. Performed the experiments: UBS. Analyzed the data: UBS. Wrote the paper: KB UBS.