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  1. Yi Li and Yujing Yan have contributed equally.

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  1. School of Food Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

    Yi Li

  2. Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Yujing Yan

  3. Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Zhiyao Tang & Jin-Sheng He

  4. State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Ke Wang & Yi-Jian Yao

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Li, Y., Yan, Y., Tang, Z. et al. Conserving the Chinese caterpillar fungus under climate change. Biodivers Conserv 30, 547–550 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-02109-z

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