Table 7.

Values of the effective link densities (# of links per node) m*, m_e and m_o, as compared with the Wigner Criterion, m_max.

no.	system	nl	m*	me	mo	mmax
1	Crystal River Creek (control)	20	4.359915	2.768395	1.805439	2.879958
2	Crystal River Creek (ΔT)	20	3.583949	2.061436	1.639607	2.749424
3	mesohaline Chesapeake Bay	33	3.625802	2.178070	1.754062	2.75849
4	mesohaline Chesapeake Bay	12	2.514637	1.733034	1.870080	2.392307
5	Baltic Sea	12	2.510544	1.698722	1.851250	2.390319
6	Florida Bay	122	21.34905	3.928286	2.981834	2.701279
7	gramminoid Everglades	63	14.83517	4.324400	3.496351	2.858596
8	Mondego Estuary	42	11.07205	1.728895	1.716952	2.956179
9	Narragansett Bay	31	5.229779	3.800528	2.448927	2.959826
10	St Marks River	48	6.809033	3.568332	3.543193	3.012261
11	polyhaline Chesapeake Bay	31	3.411485	2.541447	2.312815	2.709027
12	southeast Chukchi Sea	48	10.30162	2.651576	2.740711	2.974249
13	northeast Chukchi Sea	48	9.842672	2.753373	2.139094	2.984179
14	Everglades cypress wetlands	65	11.80029	1.433011	2.018453	2.938017
15	Ems Estuary	12	2.661519	2.414208	2.188815	2.459710
16	Kromme Estuary	13	2.357651	2.005970	1.482364	2.311407
17	Okefenokee Marsh	21	4.624669	2.493894	1.756009	2.910053
18	Swartzkops Estuary	12	2.073690	1.631445	1.455889	2.137639
19	Ythan Estuary	11	2.206179	1.480875	1.791912	2.223498
20	Twin Cays fringe mangroves	72	8.642807	2.008196	1.798757	3.005433
21	Twin Cays transition mangroves	58	8.656597	2.261453	2.467756	3.005240
22	Broad Creek	31	4.721843	2.370514	2.101399	2.919689
23	Northern Benguela Current	22	6.385059	2.620787	1.651755	3.005815
24	Delaware Bay	33	6.046080	3.430098	2.546472	2.997271
25	Lake Michigan	35	6.045661	3.245858	2.854820	2.997258