The Environment, Not Space, Dominantly Structures the Landscape Patterns of the Richness and Composition of the Tropical Understory Vegetation

• Yue-Hua Hu,

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Da-Yong Sheng,

  Affiliations South China Agricultural University, College of Forestry, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Huizhou Institute of Forestry Science, Huizhou, Guangdong, China

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• Yang-Zhou Xiang ,

  * E-mail: yzhxiang18@126.com (YZX); gzfsrd@163.com (DPX)

  Affiliations Guizhou Institute of Forest Inventory and Planning, Guiyang, Guizhou, China, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Zeng-Jiang Yang,

  Affiliation Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Da-Ping Xu ,

  * E-mail: yzhxiang18@126.com (YZX); gzfsrd@163.com (DPX)

  Affiliation Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Ning-Nan Zhang,

  Affiliation Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Lei-Lei Shi

  Affiliation Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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