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Ordination plot of the non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis of (a) host taxonomic composition, (b) parasitoid taxonomic composition, (c) host phylogenetic composition, and (d) parasitoid phylogenetic composition across the study plots (filled circles) in the BEF-China experiment. Stress = 0.23, 0.23, 0.24 and 0.20, respectively. Arrows indicate significant (at p < 0.05) correlations of environmental variables with NMDS axis scores. Lengths of arrows are proportional to the strength of the correlations. Red crosses refer to the host or parasitoid species in each community. See Table S2-S5 in the Supplementary Material for abbreviations and statistical values.
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Environmental factors can influence ecological networks, but these effects are poorly understood in the realm of the phylogeny of host-parasitoid interactions. Especially, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the ways that biotic factors, including plant diversity, tree identity, genetic diversity, overall community composition of higher trophi...
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... species composition was significantly related to the species and phylogenetic composition of the tree and parasitoid communities (NMDS scores), as well as to canopy cover, tree MPD, elevation, and eastness (Fig. 1a , Table 1 , Table S2). Parasitoid species composition was significantly associated with host phylogenetic diversity, tree functional diversity, tree MPD, eastness, and elevation, and was significantly related to tree species composition, host species composition, and canopy cover (Fig. 1b , Table 1 , Table S3). Host phylogenetic composition was ...
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... well as to canopy cover, tree MPD, elevation, and eastness (Fig. 1a , Table 1 , Table S2). Parasitoid species composition was significantly associated with host phylogenetic diversity, tree functional diversity, tree MPD, eastness, and elevation, and was significantly related to tree species composition, host species composition, and canopy cover (Fig. 1b , Table 1 , Table S3). Host phylogenetic composition was affected by tree species composition, tree MPD, tree functional diversity, canopy cover, eastness, elevation and was especially obviously affected by parasitoid species and phylogenetic composition (Fig. 1c , Table 1 , Table S4). For parasitoid phylogenetic composition, significant ...
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... related to tree species composition, host species composition, and canopy cover (Fig. 1b , Table 1 , Table S3). Host phylogenetic composition was affected by tree species composition, tree MPD, tree functional diversity, canopy cover, eastness, elevation and was especially obviously affected by parasitoid species and phylogenetic composition (Fig. 1c , Table 1 , Table S4). For parasitoid phylogenetic composition, significant relationships were found with tree species and phylogenetic composition, host species composition, tree functional diversity, canopy cover, elevation, and eastness (Fig. 1d , Table 1 , Table ...
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... elevation and was especially obviously affected by parasitoid species and phylogenetic composition (Fig. 1c , Table 1 , Table S4). For parasitoid phylogenetic composition, significant relationships were found with tree species and phylogenetic composition, host species composition, tree functional diversity, canopy cover, elevation, and eastness (Fig. 1d , Table 1 , Table ...
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... study was conducted in the BEF-China biodiversity experiment, which is the largest tree diversity experiment worldwide. The experiment is located in a subtropical forest near Xingangshan, Jiangxi province, south-east China (29°08′-29°11′N, 117°90′-117°93′E). The mean annual temperature is 16.7°C and mean annual precipitation 1821 mm ( Yang et al. 2013). ...
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... two plots of 16 and 24 mixtures. In addition, at site B eight additional monocultures were sampled ( Fornoff et al. 2021 ), resulting 48 plots in Site B (including 16 monocultures, eight plots for each 2, 4, 8 mixtures and six and two plots of 16 and 24 mixtures. In total, 88 study plots were used (40 plots on Site A and 48 plots on Site B, see Fig. ...
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