Covariate Description Psi P
Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
EVI (2018) was obtained from SRTM vegetation index available at https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov.
Tree Cover (TC)
Prepared by Hansen et al. 2013, downloaded from the Global Forest Change website. (http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest).
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Terrain Ruggedness Index (TRI)
Calculated in ArcGIS using 30 m resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) layer from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) website (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/)
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Disturbance (D) Presence absence (P/A) score of human, livestock and fire disturbance recorded in field and pooled to obtain an average score for each grid.
Fruit (F)
Presence absence of fruit plants most frequently consumed during the dry season in Chitwan (Khanal & Thapa, 2014 was pooled to obtain an average fruit score for each grid.
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Termite (T)
Presence absence of termites recorded in field and single score for each grid obtained by averaging scores across four replicates.
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