Table 2. The effect of targeted extinction scenarios on the decay of parasite diversity, nestedness and modularity.

Removal order	Parasite diversity		Nestedness		Modularity
	z	p	z	p	z	p
Extinction risk	2.81	0.005	−1.43	0.153	−0.24	0.81
Parasite species richness	12.73	<0.0001	8.37	<0.0001	10.63	<0.0001
Nestedness contribution	6.29	<0.0001	6.25	<0.0001	4.34	<0.0001
Modularity contribution	10.94	<0.0001	7.81	<0.0001	6.67	<0.0001

Decay area (DA) between targeted host removal orders were compared against DA values obtained by comparing random simulations to the mean decay trajectory.