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	Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador
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Table 12. The number of species in the combined elevation and region zones (bold), number of shared species between the zones (lower left), and Sørensen's Index of similarity (upper right).

Region and elevation zones		Galápagos			Coastal		Amazonian		Andean
Region and elevation zones		0 – 500m	500 – 1000m	1000 – 1500m	0 – 500m	500 – 1000m	0 – 500m	500 – 1000m	1000 – 1500m	1500 – 2000m	2000 – 2500m	2500 – 3000m	3000 – 3500m	3500 – 4000m	4000 – 4500m	> 4500m
Galápagos	0 – 500m	648	0.78	0.54	0.17	0.14	0.07	0.08	0.08	0.07	0.06	0.05	0.04	0.02	0.00	0.00
	500 – 1000m	441	483	0.67	0.12	0.15	0.07	0.09	0.09	0.08	0.07	0.06	0.04	0.04	0.01	0.00
	1000 – 1500m	248	252	273	0.10	0.12	0.05	0.07	0.10	0.08	0.06	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.01	0.00
Coastal	0 – 500m	357	251	184	3536	0.64	0.35	0.32	0.32	0.21	0.12	0.07	0.03	0.01	0.00	0.00
Coastal	500 – 1000m	251	262	185	2055	2918	0.30	0.40	0.46	0.30	0.18	0.10	0.05	0.02	0.00	0.00
Amazonian	0 – 500m	165	147	113	1319	1032	3996	0.60	0.28	0.15	0.08	0.05	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.00
Amazonian	500 – 1000m	147	153	114	1032	1144	2035	2841	0.44	0.24	0.13	0.07	0.03	0.01	0.00	0.00
Andean	1000 – 1500m	210	215	232	1238	1650	1182	1570	4303	0.56	0.35	0.22	0.12	0.05	0.01	0.00
	1500 – 2000m	168	177	164	788	1053	602	846	2343	4071	0.59	0.38	0.23	0.09	0.02	0.00
	2000 – 2500m	147	157	134	442	611	324	450	1418	2336	3908	0.63	0.40	0.18	0.06	0.01
	2500 – 3000m	120	127	105	272	355	188	250	911	1528	2444	3911	0.63	0.31	0.12	0.02
	3000 – 3500m	61	66	51	92	139	69	96	408	777	1316	2103	2729	0.54	0.25	0.05
	3500 – 4000m	24	33	22	22	36	16	25	128	233	459	815	1076	1292	0.55	0.14
	4000 – 4500m	3	5	5	3	5	4	4	25	51	126	259	410	507	568	0.32
	> 4500m	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	17	44	72	98	111	121

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