Data from: The robustness and restoration of a network of ecological networks

Understanding species’ interactions and the robustness of interaction
networks to species loss is essential to understand the effects of
species’ declines and extinctions. In most studies, different types of
networks (such as food webs, parasitoid webs, seed dispersal networks, and
pollination networks) have been studied separately. We sampled such
multiple networks simultaneously in an agroecosystem. We show that the
networks varied in their robustness; networks including pollinators
appeared to be particularly fragile. We show that, overall, networks did
not strongly covary in their robustness, which suggests that ecological
restoration (for example, through agri-environment schemes) benefitting
one functional group will not inevitably benefit others. Some individual
plant species were disproportionately well linked to many other species.
This type of information can be used in restoration management, because it
identifies the plant taxa that can potentially lead to disproportionate
gains in biodiversity.