Results
At MFJ we obtained 3148 individuals, 17.4% adults and 82.6% saplings.
The dominant species Q. faginea accounts for 44.4% of these
individuals (1396), followed by P. halepensis (19.4%). At the
MFS, we obtained 2029 individuals, 35.6% adults and 64.4% saplings.
MFS had not a single dominant species, but most abundant were A.
granatensis (24.4%), P. nigra (23.3%), C. monogyna(22.0%) and Q. faginea (17.0%). We obtained at each plot 9
species with sufficient adults and saplings (N> 20) for the
species-level analyses, but the similarity matrix comprised the entire
plant communities.
The Mantel tests revealed that epiphytes and leaf pathogens were at both
plots positively correlated (τ = 0.37 at MFJ, and τ = 0.58 at MFS,p <0.001). Similarly, sucker and chewer insects were
also positively correlated at both communities (τ= 0.68 at MFJ, and τ=
0.88 at MFS, p <0.001). The rest of the pairwise
combinations were not correlated (Table S2). Note that despite of
correlations among the number of organisms hosted, the strength of their
effects can vary with distance among individuals.