Table 3. Difference in predicted rank.

The difference column classifies the type of difference observed in rankings. Labels are used as shorthand to indicate how well rank predictions correlate between input conditions (see Fig. 5, Figs. S2, S6–S8, S10 and S14–S16 for label implementation); low numbers indicate good correlation, while high indicates poor correlations. ‘2 out’ indicates that rankings differed only by inverting 2 species that were next to each other, while ‘3 out’ re-ordered 3 species that were next to each other, etc. ‘2 out*’ indicates a special case where two pairs of species are inverted at different ends of the ranking scale. Values in all other columns mark the number of occurrences observed for each pairwise comparison.

Difference	Labels	HET vs HOM	Vol vs Surf	Vol vs Len	Surf vs Len	TeT/MeM vs NoLLC/ELA	Front vs Mid	Front vs Back	Mid vs Back
Identical	1	24	22	14	11	16	8	1	2
2 out	2	22	9	6	3	6	6	5	6
2 out*	2*	1	2	4	7	1	6	7	11
3 out	3	3	2	3	5	5	0	2	1
4 out	4	2	0	3	4	5	1	0	5
5 out	5	2	1	2	2	6	5	3	5
6 out	6	0	0	3	3	13	6	10	3
7 out	7	0	0	1	1	2	4	8	3