Examining the patterns and dynamics of species abundance distributions in succession of forest communities by model selection

• Zuo-Yun Yin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zuo-Yun Yin, Lu Zeng

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yinzuoyun@163.com (ZYY); smluo@gdut.edu.cn (SML); 807933187@qq.com (XH)

  Affiliations College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Forest Breeding, Protection and Utilization, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Guangdong Forest Research Institute (Guangdong Academy of Forestry), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Ecological Complexity and Modeling Laboratory, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9169-4447

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• Lu Zeng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zuo-Yun Yin, Lu Zeng

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Guangdong Ecological Engineering Vocational College, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Shao-Ming Luo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yinzuoyun@163.com (ZYY); smluo@gdut.edu.cn (SML); 807933187@qq.com (XH)

  Affiliation Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Ping Chen,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Xiao He ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yinzuoyun@163.com (ZYY); smluo@gdut.edu.cn (SML); 807933187@qq.com (XH)

  Affiliation College of Economics, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics (formerly Guangdong University of Business Studies), Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Wei Guo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Bailian Li

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecological Complexity and Modeling Laboratory, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

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