Acknowledgements
The authors thank the National Mission on Himalayan Studies (Wildlife
Institute of India, Dehardun and G. B. Pant Institute of Himalayan
Environment, Almora, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
for providing the funds to AS to carry out this study. We thank the
Director, Dean and Dr. S. Sathyakumar for facilitating the NMHS
fellowship programme at the Wildlife Institute of India. We thank Dr. B.
S. Adhikari for facilitating logistics for the Amrut Ganga field surveys
and Hima Nair, Meghna Bandopadhyay, Jaswant Singh, Kuwar Singh, Manish
Bisht, and others who helped in the field. We thank Dr. Fredric Windsor
for providing valuable inputs during multiple stages of the study. Local
residents of Bhagirathi and Tirthan valley and Mandal village are
thanked for their support during field surveys.