Table 2. Network parameters for morning, midday and night bacterial communities.

	Total number of correlations (+/−)	Neighbourhood connectivitya	Shortest path lengthb	Clustering coefficient (Cn)c	Topological coefficientd
Morning	375 (328/47)	5.1	3.41	0.28	0.31
Midday	488 (297/191)	6.38	3.23	0.26	0.3
Night	393 (313/80)	5.24	3.25	0.25	0.28

^aConnectivity rate between OTUs (edges).

^bLength of shortest path between all OTUs.

^cRatio of N/M, where N is number of connections between neighbors of each OTU, and M is the maximum number of connections possible between the neighbors of each OTU.

^dRelative measurement for level to which each OTU shared neighbors with other OTUs.

^a–dEach value is the mean of all OTUs_0.1 (n = 100) analysed.