. 2008 Oct 31;3(10):e3573. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003573

Table 3. Topology of 135 real soil food webs.

	5^th percentile link length	median link length	95^th percentile link length	5^th percentile link slope	median link slope	95^th percentile link slope
organic grasslands	0.47±0.09	2.15±0.23	4.49±0.27	−2.88±0.51	−0.49±0.07	2.61±0.73
conventional farms	0.50±0.09	2.27±0.25	4.76±1.03	−3.26±0.70	−0.53±0.11	2.56±0.62
semi-intensive farms	0.49±0.08	2.14±0.29	4.52±1.09	−3.91±1.02	−0.57±0.08	2.84±0.87
intensive farms	0.43±0.06	1.94±0.24	4.26±0.31	−3.64±0.73	−0.45±0.09	3.45±0.88
forests	0.36±0.04	1.43±0.12	3.14±0.28	−5.41±1.27	−0.37±0.14	4.36±1.21
fields	0.42±0.07	2.03±0.18	4.46±0.63	−3.42±0.96	−0.44±0.11	3.01±0.68

The trophic link length difference between all kinds of agroecosystems was not significant at the 5% level according to a one-way ANOVA. Forests exhibited much shorter trophic links and a much higher variance in the slopes of the trophic links than the other agroecosystems. More explanations in the text.