Stable species and interactions in plant-pollinator networks deviate from core position in fragmented habitats

Species and their interactions are more dynamic over time and space in fragmented habitats than in continuous habitats. In fragmented habitats, the low nestedness of mutualistic networks may be related to the position change of stable (high persistence over time/space) species and interactions in the networks. Previous studies have shown that stable species and interactions tend to be in the core position of mutualistic networks. However, in fragmented habitats, it remains unknown whether stable species or interactions still tend to be in the core position. To address this gap, here we evaluated the correlation between the position of proximity to the network core and the temporal/spatial stability of species and interactions, using the observation of 42 plant-pollinator networks conducted in a fragmented island landscape over 3 years. We showed that temporally/spatially stable species and interactions deviated from the network core to varying degrees. Temporally stable plants were most..., , The dataset contains 3 files: “1_linner_regression”, “2_null_model_background_data” and “3_span_1CV”.
1. File “1_linner_regression”: The file contains the data of the position-stability correlation of plants (Fig. 3a), pollinators (Fig. 3b) and interactions (Fig. 3c) over time and space on 41 studied islands and the mainland, and also contains R code of linear regressions for the position-stability correlation against island area (ln-transformed, ha) and island isolation (ln-transformed, m). In addition, for the stability of interactions, the data contains the data of the results using the method of removing rare interactions and using the previous method 1/CV. The corresponding R script file was “linner_regression.R”.
2. File “2_null_model_background_data”: The file contains the data and R code for null model networks. The corresponding R script files were “function_of_null_model_network.R” and “null_model_R_code.R”.
3. File “3_span_1CV”: The file contains the data and R code for calcu...