Concepts

A measure of community diversity that accounts for both species richness and relative abundance, calculated using the Shannon-Weiner index

Changes in network composition between treatments, partitioned into species turnover versus interaction rewiring components

The degree to which specialists interact with subsets of species that generalists interact with, measured by weighted NODF

Measure of foraging specialization using standardized Hurlbert's niche breadth, where values closer to 1 represent generalized foraging and values closer to 0 represent specialized foraging

A network's sensitivity to simulated extinction of plants or pollinators, measured as secondary extinction cascades

Standardized measure of interaction strength ranging from -1 to 1, where positive values indicate facilitation and negative values indicate competition

Number of social ties that if cut will result in two or more separate networks, measuring group fragmentation

Between-plot flowering-time diversity component representing differences in phenological timing among plots

Metric calculated to determine deviation from null mean nearest taxon distance, used to identify whether deterministic or stochastic processes shape community composition

Measures of inter-tree competition including relative spacing, larger neighbor volume, and neighborhood density calculated within specified neighborhoods

Number of existing links divided by the number of possible links, or C=L/S²

A measure of drift standardized by the benthic density of the source population, calculated as drift density divided by benthic density

Ratio of moss cover to vascular plant cover, used to assess relative moss dominance

Standardized measure of the effect of grazers on chlorophyll as a function of invertebrate density, calculated as dynamic index DI = [ln(G/R)]/Dt

The efficiency with which energy is transferred between trophic levels in food webs

Spatial overlap between plant canopies used as a proxy for microenvironment modification strength