Epiphytes bacterial community composition clusters arranged primarily by sampling month and canopy side. A) Clustering dendrogram of bacterial communities, and (B) bacterial community composition for the samples shown in panel A. Different bar colors represent different phylum while shades of the same color represent different OTU's. The X-axis titles were color coded for different months, January in blue, June in green, July in red and September in black.

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... are the different canopies from which samples were taken from (N=north canopy side, C = center canopy shaded area, S= south canopy side), observed number of OTUs, Chao1 species' diversity estimate, microbial communities phylogenetic diversity and the Shannon bacterial communities' diversity. Diversity metrics were calculated in QIIME-1 software. (Fig. 6A). Different patterns of bacterial diversity were also found in July, where both North and South were dominated by Actinobacteria (52.7 ± 5.8%) compared to the center canopy side that was dominated by Proteobacteria (70.2 ± 21.7%). In September, different clusters formed in the South, North and Center canopy sides, and all these canopy ...