Table 3.

Properties of the co-occurrence networks of protist community compositions (PCCs) in the East China Sea (ECS).

Network index	May-Coast	May-Shelf	Aug-Coast	Aug-Shelf	Oct-Coast	Oct-Shelf
Number of vertices	322	515	477	797	523	608
Number of edges	3,142	13,232	7,826	22,360	6,722	15,038
Average degree	19.516	51.386	32.813	56.11	25.706	49.467
Betweenness centralization	0.362	0.098	0.100	0.093	0.113	0.163
Average clustering coefficient	0.874	0.919	0.878	0.907	0.824	0.898
Diameter	27	11	12	13	12	15
Average path length	8.275	4.323	5.040	4.811	5.25	5.789
Density/connectivity	0.061	0.100	0.069	0.070	0.049	0.081
Degree centralization	0.108	0.102	0.059	0.045	0.080	0.067
Modularity	0.769	0.770	0.836	0.871	0.800	0.833
Number of sub-modules	39	13	24	21	38	15