Data from: Network ecology in dynamic landscapes

Network ecology is an emerging field that allows researchers to
conceptualize and analyze ecological networks and their dynamics. Here, we
focus on the dynamics of ecological networks in response to environmental
changes. Specifically, we formalize how network topologies constrain the
dynamics of ecological systems into a unifying framework in network
ecology that we refer to as the “ecological network dynamics framework”.
This framework stresses that the interplay between species interaction
networks and the spatial layout of habitat patches is key to identifying
which network properties (number and weights of nodes and links).
Determining how effective ecological networks change through space and
time can help reveal their complex dynamics in a changing world. We used
directed graphlets to analyze changes in species interaction networks from
a forest site (forest web), an edge site (edge web), and both sites
together (meta web) at two time periods.