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(a) Timing of grazing, vegetation and disease surveys and temperature measurements at each site. Recovery days represents the amount of time between the end of grazing activities and the beginning of the vegetation survey at each site. (b) Results of Type II Analysis of Deviance tests on models quantifying the effects of soil moisture and either soil-surface temperature, soil temperature, air temperature, or elevation on two measures of host community structure (Host Richness, Host Pace-of-Life). (c) Results of Type II Analysis of Deviance test on mixed models of disease, using soil temperature, air temperature, or elevation to evaluate factors that influenced square-root transformed community parasite load. (d) Coefficient estimates from the structural equation model fit with mean-centered soil-surface temperature and host pace-of-life. Estimates are provided both raw (Estimate) and scaled by the ratio of the standard deviation of x divided by the standard deviation of y (Std Estimate) to facilitate comparisons. Correlations among dependent variables are indicated by ~~. (e) Calanda Biodiversity Observatory Vegetation list. This list includes species that were observed during the vegetation survey as well as taxa observed outside of the plots during extensive preliminary surveys of Mount Calanda. (f) Comparison of different models quantifying the relationship between host community traits and disease. Each model contained square-root transformed community parasite load as the response, and elevation, host community species richness, richness-independent phylogenetic diversity, and some combination of host traits as fixed effects. To estimate whether the effect of host community structure depends on elevation, we also included in the model the pairwise interactions between each measure of host community structure and elevation as additional fixed effects, The Pace-of-Life model includes host community pace-of-life as a latent factor, and is the model reported in the manuscript. The All Traits model includes all single traits in place of the pace-of-life latent factor. The Chlorophyll, Leaf Longevity, Leaf Nitrogen, Leaf Phosphorus, and Specific Leaf Area models include a single trait in place of the latent factor.