A similar trend was observed for mites that are often plant-feeding (actinedids) and SLA, while for LDMC, the interaction of plant phylogenetic and functional diversity was only marginally significant, and similar for both groups of mites (actinedids and gamasids, Table 1 d, Fig. 5 ).
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Why phylogenetic signal of traits is important in ecosystems: uniformity of a plant trait increases soil fauna, but only in a phylogenetically uniform vegetation.
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