College of Life Science, Jinggangshan University, Ji’an, Jiangxi 343009, China
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Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control in Red Soil Hilly Region of Jiangxi Province, Jinggangshan University, Ji’an, 343009, Jiangxi, China
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Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China
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This study was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB31000000) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (32100363, 31970396)
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Figure 1. Species scape in China, where the size of individual organisms approximately corresponds to the number of species described in the higher taxon they represent (For data sources, please see Supplementary Material I)