Ecological Archives E096-097-A1

Kristina L. Cockle and Kathy Martin. 2015. Temporal dynamics of a commensal network of cavity-nesting vertebrates: increased diversity during an insect outbreak. Ecology 96:1093–1104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-1256.1

Appendix A. Sample size and network size for each year from 1998 to 2011.

Table A1. Annual parameters for a network of cavity-nesting birds and mammals, from 1998 to 2011, and for all years combined. Richness of cavity producers is the number of excavator species + natural decay that contributed to the network in a given year (i.e., they produced the cavities that were used by secondary cavity-nesters that year). Richness of secondary cavity-nesters is the number of secondary cavity-nesting species that nested (in cavities with a known producer) that year. Each interaction is one nest of a secondary cavity-nesting species in a cavity with known producer. Each link is one unique interaction between a cavity producing species (or natural decay) and a secondary cavity-nesting species.

Year

Richness

Number of interactions

Number of links

Cavity producers

Secondary cavity-nesters

1998

7

11

111

28

1999

7

9

87

23

2000

7

10

119

26

2001

8

12

134

30

2002

9

10

123

29

2003

8

10

132

29

2004

9

9

121

30

2005

9

10

137

30

2006

8

10

86

29

2007

8

10

101

25

2008

8

11

103

29

2009

8

9

109

26

2010

8

10

125

30

2011

9

10

122

32

All years

9

18

59

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