Figure legends
Figure 1. Biplot depicting the first two axes of the RLQ multivariate
analysis. Axes and scale are same for figures all plots which represent
projections in the plane of the first two main components of (a)
environmental variables, (b) species traits and (c) bird species.
Figure 2. Plots showing elevational trends of standard effect size of
mean phylogenetic distance (SES_MPD) and standard effect size of mean
functional distance (SES_MFD) of breeding river birds across the 68
river reaches in the western Himalaya.
Figure 3. Trends of community weighted mean (CWM) values for the three
functional traits (body-mass, bill-size and tarsus length) of river-bird
communities from different river basins plotted along the elevation
gradient. The straight lines were fitted with a linear regression model
and the R2 values and p values are listed in each
figure.
Data accessibility statement: The data that support the
findings of this study will be made openly available in open data
repository (e.g “figshare”) upon acceptance of the manuscript.
Competing interest statement : The authors have no conflict of
interest to declare.
Author contribution section: AS, NC, KR and SJO conceived the
study. AS collected the data, KR facilitated the field permits, NC and
AS analyzed the data. AS, SJO, KR and NC wrote the manuscript. All
authors read and reviewed the final manuscript