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In order to ensure a comprehensive and accurate assessment of the environmental adaptability of the community, we used the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to calculate the weight of each indicator and the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method to evaluate the adaptability of community, as well as further analyses using a two-dimensional data space map. 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