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The author acknowledges the financial assistance provided by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, for this work. He thanks Lakshminarayana, Jagadeesh K, Madhu M. Kumar, Kiran M. Kumar and Rao G.R. for their help in field data collection and data analyses; and Pankaj Kumar Mohanta for conducting the remote sensing data analysis.

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