Table 5.

Ecosystem networks, number of components and the literature references.

#	system	n	reference
1	Crystal River Creek (control)	21	Ulanowicz [13]
2	Crystal River Creek (ΔT)	21	Ulanowicz [13]
3	mesohaline Chesapeake Bay	36	Baird & Ulanowicz [26]
4	mesohaline Chesapeake Bay	15	Wulff & Ulanowicz [27]
5	Baltic Sea	15	Wulff & Ulanowicz [27]
6	Florida Bay	125	Ulanowicz et al. [28]
7	gramminoid Everglades	66	Ulanowicz et al. [29]
8	Mondego Estuary	43	Patricio [30]
9	Narragansett Bay	32	Monaco [31]
10	St Marks River	51	Baird et al. [32]
11	polyhaline Chesapeake Bay	34	Hagy [33]
12	southeast Chukchi Sea	51	in preparation [34]
13	northeast Chukchi Sea	51	in preparation [34]
14	Everglades cypress wetlands	68	Ulanowicz et al. [35]
15	Ems Estuary	15	Baird & Ulanowicz [26]
16	Kromme Estuary	16	Baird & Ulanowicz [26]
17	Okefenokee Marsh	24	Patten et al. [36]
18	Swartzkops Estuary	15	Baird & Ulanowicz [26]
19	Ythan Estuary	14	Baird & Ulanowicz [26]
20	Twin Cays fringe mangroves	87	Scharler et al. [37]
21	Twin Cays transition mangroves	74	Scharler et al. [37]
22	Broad Creek	36	Egnotovich [38]
23	N. Benguela Current	24	Heymans & Baird [39]
24	Delaware Bay	34	Monaco [31]
25	Lake Michigan	36	AE Krause & DM Mason (2003, personal communication) see also [40]