TABLE 2.
Network‐level summary metrics for the observed community of species interactions and for the reconstructed associations using co‐occurrence analyses with a significance level of ⍺ = 0.2.
| Method | Region | Potential associations | Realized associations | Connectance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empirical | ALB | 6885 | 817 | 0.119 |
| RII null models | ALB | 6885 | 206 | 0.030 |
| Probabilistic | ALB | 6885 | 171 | 0.025 |
| Plant correlation | ALB | 6885 | 131 | 0.019 |
| Flower correlation | ALB | 4182 | 84 | 0.020 |
| Empirical | SCH | 1071 | 214 | 0.200 |
| RII null models | SCH | 1071 | 62 | 0.058 |
| Probabilistic | SCH | 1071 | 29 | 0.027 |
| Plant correlation | SCH | 1071 | 11 | 0.010 |
| Flower correlation | SCH | 741 | 5 | 0.007 |
Note: Values in bold highlight those in the (known) empirical community.
Abbreviations: ALB = Swabian Jura, Plant and Flower correlation = Spearman's rank correlation of plants and flowers with Benjamini–Hochberg's multiple testing correction, Probabilistic = probabilistic method (Veech 2013), SCH = Schorfheide‐Chorin, RII null models = Relative Interaction Intensity index with pairwise null models (Armas, Ordiales, and Pugnaire 2004).