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Figure 1. General framework of this manuscript. Starting with
the current mature community (1), different seed dispersal mechanisms
determine how the seeds of the different species are distributed in the
landscape (the first spatial template). This determines how the emerging
seedlings are embedded into the biotic seedscape (input ), which
is given by the mutualist and antagonist organisms shared with their
neighbours (2, Seedling emergence). The seedscape affects the subsequent
processes along the species ontogeny (output ), including the
transition to sapling (3) and sapling establishment (4), thereby shaping
the assembly of the next generation of the mature plant community (5).
Figure 2. Distribution of the proportion of shared organisms
between pairs of woody species at the MFJ and MFS plots. Based on the
number δfi of shared organisms (for i ≠j ) or unique organisms (i = j ), we determined for
each species pair the proportionδfi /δff of shared
organisms, and plotted the cumulative distribution of the valuesδfi /δff , taken over all
species pairs f -i . For completely species-specific
organisms (i.e., δfi /δff =
0 for i ≠ j andδfi /δff = 1 for i =j ), we obtain values of (O − 1)/O for the
cumulative distribution, where O is the number of species of the
organisms. Thus, the higher the curve, the higher the host specificity.
Figure 3. Results of the spatial analyses of shared organisms
for the sapling saplings (a – d), sapling - adults (e - h) and adults -
adults (i – l) analysis, separately for plot (MFJ: solid lines, MFS:
dashed lines) and fruit type (fleshy: red, dry: grey). The x-axis
indicates the distance from the focal plant, and the y-axis shows the
standardized effect sizes of the summary functionαf,phy (r ), which is the expected number of
organisms shared between a randomly selected focal plant of the given
type and a randomly selected neighbour within distance r . Values
< −1.96 indicate that significantly fewer than expected
organisms are shared, values > 1.96 indicate that more than
expected organisms are shared, and otherwise results are
non-significant. The pointwise simulation envelopes were determined
based on 999 simulations of the toroidal shift null model.
Figure 4. Results of the spatial analyses of the cumulative
spatially-explicit Simpson index, which gives the proportion of
heterospecific neighbours within distance r of an individual of
dry-fruited species (or fleshy-fruited species). The x-axis indicates
the distance from the focal plant, and y-axis shows the Simpson indexαf (r ), where the dots are the observed
summary function, the grey areas are the pointwise 5% simulation
envelopes, and the grey lines are the expectations under the toroidal
shift null model. Results were obtained by abundance-weighted averaging
the species-level results of all fleshy-fruited species, and of all
dry-fruited species.