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  • Ecology
  • Botany
  • Conservation Biology

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  • Mountains in China are vital for biodiversity conservation, offering unique habitats.
  • Limited standardized open datasets exist for plant diversity along elevational gradients in these mountains.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To establish a comprehensive, standardized open dataset of plant diversity across elevational gradients in Chinese mountains.
  • To provide baseline data for studying plant diversity changes and informing conservation strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Collected plant diversity data from 370 permanent sampling plots across 17 mountains in China.
  • Recorded species identity and abundance of woody plants (≥1 cm diameter at breast height).
  • Calculated species-level basal area, abundance, and relative importance value for all plants and vegetation layers.

Main Results:

  • The dataset includes 1,493 species from 121 families and 450 genera.
  • It spans diverse ecosystems from tropical rainforests to tundra, covering a wide elevational range (166 to 3,835 m a.s.l.).
  • The data covers a broad geographic area (46° longitude, 24° latitude).

Conclusions:

  • This dataset provides crucial baseline information for understanding plant diversity patterns in mountain ecosystems.
  • It enables direct comparisons across mountains to assess climate and land-use change impacts.
  • Facilitates informed conservation strategies for mountain biodiversity.