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South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Tropical forest overstory and understory exhibit contrasting elevational α-diversity patterns (unimodal vs. bimodal). Community differentiation is driven by species turnover of dominant rather than rare species, highlighting the need for vertically stratified conservation across the full elevational gradient.

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Xu Li, Zhipeng Li, Kunhong You, Yang Liu, Xialan Cheng, Han Sheng, Shaohang Huang, Chushu Meng, Shu-Yi-Dan Zhou, Zhiyang Lie, and Juxiu Liu

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