Table 2.

For each food web, we report the fraction of species that, when redundant connections are removed, change their In-Degree (Ch. In, number of incoming connections), Out-Degree (Ch. Out, number of outgoing connections) or their Total Degree (Ch. Tot, total number of connections). We also report if the most connected species in the original network is not the most connected in the simplified food web when the In, Out or Total Degree is considered.

food web	Ch. In	Ch. Out	Ch. Tot	Ch. Top In	Ch. Top Out	Ch. Top Tot
Benguela	0.52	0.76	0.9	1	0	1
Bridge Brook Lake	0.24	0.2	0.32	1	0	1
Scotch Broom	0.14	0.16	0.22	1	0	0
Canton Creek	0.04	0.04	0.07	0	0	0
Chesapeake Bay	0.06	0.16	0.19	1	0	0
Coachella Valley	0.76	0.86	0.9	1	0	1
El Verde	0.15	0.13	0.23	1	0	0
UK Grassland	0.21	0.31	0.46	0	0	1
Little Rock Lake	0.28	0.46	0.55	1	0	1
Caribbean Reef	0.52	0.8	0.82	0	0	1
NE US Shelf	0.58	0.59	0.73	0	1	1
Skipwith Pond	0.56	0.72	0.8	1	0	1
St Mark's Estuary	0.29	0.19	0.38	1	0	0
St Martin Island	0.24	0.26	0.43	0	0	0
Stony Stream	0.04	0.06	0.07	0	0	0
Ythan Estuary	0.11	0.14	0.2	0	0	0
Ythan Estuary w Parasites	0.09	0.11	0.17	0	0	0
Averages	0.28	0.35	0.44	0.53	0.06	0.47