“…Natural disasters have profound impacts on global biodiversity (Sagar and Singh, 2005 ; Fattorini, 2010 ; Milner et al, 2013 ; Fraver et al, 2017 ; Ohbayashi et al, 2017 ). As a serious natural disturbance (Pickett and White, 1985 ; Hobbs and Huenneke, 1992 ), earthquake is one of the natural disasters that causes ecosystem degradation (Huang et al, 2017 ; Kitada et al, 2017 ; Tsujimoto et al, 2020 ; Kang et al, 2021 ). Such disturbance may greatly threaten the survival and competition of plant species by increasing mortality and changing habitat quality (Sousa, 1984 ; Lai et al, 2007 ; Huang et al, 2017 ; Ohbayashi et al, 2017 ; Tsujimoto et al, 2020 ).…”