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. 2016 Jul 11;8:plw038. doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plw038

Table 2.

Network level metrics for the uninvaded, semi invaded, heavily invaded and combined interaction networks from analyses (i) treating bacterial genotypes as taxa (G) and (ii) identifying bacterial taxa on the basis of 98% 16S sequence similarity (98%). Five plant species were sampled at each site and eight across the combined dataset. Webs were significantly modular with high levels of interaction specialization.

Bacterial taxa (B) Connectance (I/P*B) Interaction evenness (IE) WNODF Weighted modularity (Q) Number of modules Network specialization (H’2) Generality plant (Gp) Generality bacteria (Gb)

G 98% G 98% G 98% G 98% G 98% G 98% G 98% G 98% G 98%
Uninvaded 24 11 0.22 0.33 0.63 0.63 5.40ns 22.31ns 0.72* 0.53* 5 4 0.90 0.68 4.21 2.78 1.19 2.24
Semi invaded 20 7 0.24 0.34 0.61 0.59 8.00ns 9.68ns 0.74* 0.60* 5 3 0.88 0.89 3.63 1.68 1.20 1.98
Heavily invaded 17 6 0.27 0.40 0.62 0.60 5.88ns 12.00ns 0.71* 0.59* 5 3 0.85 0.86 3.36 1.55 1.30 2.04
Combined 44 16 0.15 0.23 0.60 0.57 7.92ns 15.88ns 0.78* 0.59* 7 5 0.89 0.73 5.61 2.31 1.26 2.49
*

P < 0.05 from z-scores. ns, indicates no significant nestedness from randomization tests.