Study area and collection of temperature data
For micro-climate data, we deployed the Thermochron iButton (Maxim Integrated Products, http://www.maxim-ic.com/) to record temperature data every hour on a round-the-clock basis at each sampling site from 2014−2015: Mandal [1800m: N30.44685° E79.27328°], Anusuya [2000-2200m: N30.47888°E79.28503°], Kanchula [2600m: N30.45913° E79.22744°] and Shokharakh [3100-3400m: N30.47860°E79.217980°; Figure 1.] in the western Himalaya, Uttarakhand state, India.