Table 2.

Topological properties of the empirical pMENs of bacterial communities in each season and their associated random pMENs.

	Empirical networks								Random networks
	network size	total links	similarity threshold	R2 of power law	Average connectivity	Harmonic geodesic distance	Average clustering coefficient	Modularity	Harmonic geodesic distance	Average clustering coefficient	Modularity
Autumn 2017	86	149	0.948	0.863	3.465	5.419	0.417	0.717	3.257 ± 0.151	0.069 ± 0.024	0.489 ± 0.015
Winter 2017–2018	95	185	0.948	0.810	3.895	6.731	0.514	0.658	3.258 ± 0.180	0.113 ± 0.025	0.456 ± 0.016
Spring 2018	70	149	0.948	0.724	4.257	4.235	0.547	0.625	2.612 ± 0.074	0.110 ± 0.031	0.412 ± 0.017
Summer 2018	55	65	0.948	0.679	2.364	10.452	0.359	0.791	3.876 ± 0.238	0.030 ± 0.029	0.629 ± 0.019
Autumn 2018	139	154	0.948	0.918	2.216	17.911	0.347	0.850	6.213 ± 0.477	0.024 ± 0.016	0.730 ± 0.014