Table 4. Network metrics of the calculated plant-pollinator networks for different level of data aggregation.
Network metrics | Network input data | ||
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All plant species All pollinators | All plant species Grouped pollinators | Group pollination syndrome Grouped pollinators | |
level of data aggregation | + | ++ | +++ |
weighted nestedness | 0.576 | 0.040 | -0.133 |
connectance | 0.338 | 0.867 | 0.933 |
interaction evenness | 0.676 | 0.828 | 0.750 |
H2’ specialization | 0.233 | 0.201 | 0.153 |
mean number of shared partners: | |||
pollinators | 2.2 | 13.9 | 5.2 |
plants | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
Niche overlap: | |||
pollinators | 0.20 | 0.57 | 0.82 |
plants | 0.51 | 0.56 | 0.49 |