Climate and landscape mediate patterns of low lentil productivity in Nepal

services information may provide a useful guide to farmers with respect to matching manage- ment intensity and investment to likely yield outcomes. Supporting information S1 Fig. Historic winter rainfall trends from selected meteorological stations in the Nepal Terai. (TIF) S2 Fig. Distribution of technical efficiency score for overall farms. (TIF) S3 Fig. Lentil yield (kg ha-1) from a series of on-farm evaluation across different ecologies and years in western region districts of Nepal from 2012/13-2016/17. (N inside the figure indicate the total number of samples included). (TIF) S1 Table. Details on agronomic practices, experiment year, district and number of loca- tions included in each district for on-farm experiments. (DOCX) S2 Table. Districts wise lentil yield and seasonal precipitation during lentil growing time (October-March) in study areas. (DOCX) S1 Data. (RAR) Acknowledgments We gratefully acknowledge the farmers for their willingness to participate in the survey and on-farm experiment. The authors would like to thank Salin Acharya, Lokendra Khadka, and Anil Khadka for their support during farm survey data collection and Cynthia Mathys for lan- guage editing of this paper. Author Contributions Conceptualization: Gokul P. Paudel, Mina Devkota, Andrew J. McDonald. Data curation: Gokul P. Paudel, Mina Devkota. Formal analysis: Gokul P. Paudel, Mina Devkota. Methodology: Gokul P. Paudel, Alwin Keil. Validation: Alwin Keil, Andrew J. McDonald. Writing – original draft: Gokul P. Paudel, Mina Devkota.

Writing – review & editing: Gokul P. Paudel, Mina Devkota, Alwin Keil, Andrew J. McDonald. References 1. Karmakar N, Chakraborty A, Nanjundiah RS. Increased sporadic extremes decrease the intraseasonal variability in the Indian summer monsoon rainfall. Scientific Reports. 2017; 7: 7824. https://doi.org/10. 1038/s41598-017-07529-6 PMID: 28798361 PLOS ONE Climate and landscape mediate low lentil productivity PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231377 April 16, 2020 15 / 19