Fig. 4. Connectance reduces variance in the distribution of steady-state pathogen prevalence within a network.

Steady-state pathogen prevalence of all bee species from a sample of 5,000 networks are shown, with the more infected species in each network shown as points in purple (top) and the less infected species in yellow (bottom). Points are slightly jittered in the horizontal direction to reduce overlap. For each bee species, a smoothing curve of the same color is fitted through the median prevalence values for each connectance bin. Connectance decreases the prevalence level of the more infected species while increasing that of the less infected ones.