Complexity of leaf surface texture affects microbial colonization in temperate forest tree species.

For conifers, we observed a negative trend of the proportion of lichen colonization (r 2 = 0.79, p = 0.14; multivariate regression analysis) with leaf surface texture complexity ( Fig 2B ).

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Absolute values larger than 1 are highly significant (Supplementary Table S5).

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Given that microbial community composition was available for only 12 out of the 27 the species for which leaf surface texture complexity was analyzed, these barely significant relationships between leaf surface texture complexity and leaf microbe community ( Figs 2 , Table 1 ) are remarkable and require further attention in future studies.

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