Flower-Visiting Social Wasps and Plants Interaction: Network Pattern and Environmental Complexity

Table 1

Metrics of networks for the wasp-plant interactions studied at Ibitipoca State Park, MG, Brazil, during the period from November 2007 to October 2008.

Network metrics	Riparian forest	Rocky grassland
Number of plant species	18	11
Number of wasp species	15	8
Number of associations	44	14
Degree of plant species; (average degree ± SE)	2.44 ± 0.57	1.27 ± 0.14
Degree of wasp species; (average degree ± SE)	2.93 ± 0.62	1.75 ± 0.52
Network connectance	16.29%	15.90%
𝐻^′2 index	0.347	0.521
Web asymmetry	0.09	0.15
Nestedness value (NODF)	17.71, 𝑃<0.01	11.61, 𝑃=0.51