Table 5.

Subnetworks including core OTUs displaying seasonal preference

	Sub-network	Number of OTUs	Edges	Di.	De.	Average degree	Average path length	Average clustering coefficient	Largest clique (#)	Mod.
All	Winter	156	1175	7	0.10	15.1	2.62	0.54	13 (4)	0.19
	Spring	19	16	4	0.09	1.7	1.56	0.44	4 (1)	0.75
	Summer	41	56	7	0.07	2.7	2.90	0.49	6 (1)	0.53
	Autumn	26	25	3	0.08	1.9	1.59	0.46	4 (2)	0.73
Pico	Winter	63	286	6	0.15	9.1	2.35	0.53	9 (4)	0.10
	Spring	8	5	3	0.18	1.2	1.50	0.00	2 (5)	0.56
	Summer	25	36	5	0.12	2.9	2.20	0.41	6 (1)	0.23
	Autumn	5	3	2	0.30	1.2	1.25	0.00	2 (3)	0.44
Nano	Winter	92	658	6	0.16	14.3	2.40	0.61	13 (4)	0.04
	Spring	11	11	4	0.20	2.0	1.59	0.57	4 (1)	0.56
	Summer	13	17	3	0.22	2.6	1.70	0.65	4 (1)	0.50
	Autumn	17	18	3	0.13	2.1	1.35	0.56	4 (2)	0.60

NB, Subnetworks include OTUs only. Di = Network diameter. De = Network density. Largest clique = size of the largest clique(s) in the network, and in brackets, the number of them. Mod = Network modularity inferred using edge betweenness