Potential distributions of seven sympatric sclerophyllous oak species in Southwest China depend on climatic, non-climatic, and independent spatial drivers

Table 5 The niche overlap between species. The metric varies between 0 (no overlap) and 1 (complete overlap)

	Q. aquifolioides	Q. longispica	Q. monimotricha	Q. pannosa	Q. guyavaefolia	Q. spinosa	Q. senescens
Q. aquifolioides	1	0.442	0.772	0.545	0.462	0.710	0.509
Q. longispica	0.442	1	0.594	0.765	0.705	0.481	0.612
Q. monimotricha	0.772	0.594	1	0.695	0.644	0.822	0.692
Q. pannosa	0.545	0.765	0.695	1	0.744	0.613	0.754
Q. guyavaefolia	0.461	0.704	0.644	0.744	1	0.560	0.627
Q. spinosa	0.710	0.480	0.822	0.613	0.560	1	0.691
Q. senescens	0.509	0.612	0.692	0.754	0.627	0.691	1

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