A Structural Approach to Disentangle the Visualization of Bipartite Biological Networks

Figure 1

Mutualistic community in Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain), with 68 species and 129 links [29]. In mutualism, species fall into two disjoint guilds, such as plants and pollinators or plants and seed dispersers. Ties amongst species of the same guild are forbidden. (a) Bipartite plot of this community. (b) Interaction matrix.

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