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We obtained official permission from the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau of Tiantai County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China to conduct the study and collect samples on this public land.","order":2,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Ethics approval and consent to participate"}},{"value":"We, the undersigned authors, declare that all authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript entitled \u2018\n                      Analysis of niche and interspecific associations of dominant associated species in the community of the rare and endangered plant\n                      \n                        Clematis tientaiensis\n                      \n                      \u2019 and agree to its submission to BMC Ecology and Evolution. 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