Table 1.

For each food web, we report the number of trophospecies S (in parentheses the number of species before aggregation in trophospecies), the total number of connections (in parentheses the original value), the number of functional and redundant connections. C is the connection in the trophospecies and original version of the food web.

food web	S	connections	functional	redundant	C	reference
Benguela	29 (29)	202 (202)	147 (147)	55 (55)	0.24 (0.24)	Yodzis (1988)
Bridge Brook Lake	25 (75)	107 (553)	92 (524)	15 (29)	0.171 (0.098)	Havens (1992)
Scotch Broom	85 (154)	223 (370)	180 (327)	43 (43)	0.031 (0.016)	Memmott et al. (2000)
Canton Creek	102 (108)	697 (708)	692 (703)	5 (5)	0.067 (0.061)	Townsend et al. (1998)
Chesapeake Bay	31 (33)	68 (72)	63 (67)	5 (5)	0.071 (0.066)	Baird & Ulanowicz (1989)
Coachella Valley	29 (30)	262 (290)	159 (173)	103 (117)	0.312 (0.322)	Polis (1991)
El Verde	155 (156)	1509 (1510)	1445 (1446)	64 (64)	0.063 (0.062)	Waide & Reagan (1996)
UK Grassland	61 (75)	97 (113)	72 (86)	25 (27)	0.026 (0.02)	Martinez et al. (1999)
Little Rock Lake	92 (181)	997 (2375)	846 (2133)	151 (242)	0.118 (0.072)	Martinez (1991)
Caribbean Reef	50 (50)	556 (556)	449 (449)	107 (107)	0.222 (0.222)	Optiz (1996)
NE US Shelf	79 (81)	1403 (1483)	1278 (1355)	125 (128)	0.225 (0.226)	Link (2002)
Skipwith Pond	25 (35)	197 (380)	154 (314)	43 (66)	0.315 (0.31)	Warren (1989)
St Mark's Estuary	48 (48)	221 (221)	199 (199)	22 (22)	0.096 (0.096)	Christian & Luczkovich (1999)
St Martin Island	42 (44)	205 (218)	185 (197)	20 (21)	0.116 (0.113)	Goldwasser & Roughgarden (1993)
Stony Stream	109 (112)	829 (832)	821 (824)	8 (8)	0.07 (0.066)	Townsend et al. (1998)
Ythan Estuary	83 (92)	395 (421)	382 (408)	13 (13)	0.057 (0.05)	Hall & Raffaelli (1991)
Ythan Estuary w Par.	124 (134)	579 (598)	562 (581)	17 (17)	0.038 (0.033)	Huxham et al. (1996)