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Figure 1 Species richness of different fencing duration and shrub cover communities.
Figure 2 Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination of community taxonomic composition. A) Fencing duration treatments; B) Shrub cover treatments. Each point represents the species composition in a given quadrat. Lines represent the confdence ellipse at the 0.95 level.
Figure 3 Phylogenetic diversity of different fencing duraition and shrub cover communities.
Figure 4 Relationship between phylogenetic diversity and species richness.
Figure 5 The standardized effect sizes SES of mean pairwise distance (SESMPD) and mean nearest taxon distance (SESMNTD). The significant difference from the null model is shown by asterisks. The same English letters indicate non-significant differences (p >0.05) among different fencing duration treatments; and the same Greek letters indicate non-significant (p >0.05) differences among different shrub cover conditions.