Plant metabolic response to stress in an arid zone is mediated by the presence of neighbors

The file data.zip contains: “Data.xlsx”: This file includes data from the 183 individuals sampled. The information provided includes the tag of the vegetation patch in which each plant was growing (“patch”), the species identity (“focal”), whether the closest-related species from the same patch (“taxodist”) was within the same species, genus, family, class or phylum, the concentration, in ng/g of fresh weigh, of the different metabolites: abscisic acid (ABA), proline accumulation, jasmonic acid (JA) and salicylic acid (SA) in plants growing “associated” or “solitary”, the physical distance between the associated and solitary plant of each pair (“dist_cm”), the difference in the log-transformed-volumes between the associated plant and the solitary one (“difvolumenfocal_A_S”), the area of the patch in cm2 (“Area_patch_cm2”), the volume of the largest plant in the vegetation patch (“volumenurse”), the mean (“mean_ind_phylo_dist”) and minimum (“min_phylo_dist”) phylogenetic distance between the focal plant and the rest of individuals in its patch, and the largest plant in the patch (“phydist_nursefocal”). Finally, the number of individuals (“nind”) and species (“nsp”) in each vegetation patch is also provided. “Petrer_tree.nwk”: Phylogenetic relationships between the plant species recorded in this study “Clima.xlsx”: This file includes monthly average temperature (“Temperature”) and precipitation (“Precipitation”), and also minimum (“Min_T”) and maximum (“Max_T”) temperatures of each month (1-12) in the closest meteorological station to the study site (“Petrer”). Data provided by the Valencian Society of Meteorology (AVAMET) (https://www.avamet.org/). R code: “R_code_Plant_Metab_Neigh.R” includes all the code required to reproduce the analyses conducted and figures included in this paper using the data described above