Spatial structure of ant–plant mutualistic networks

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Loss and gains in ant–plant interactions mediated by extrafloral nectar: fidelity, cheats, and lies (2016, background): “Additionally, other studies show that the central core of highly interacting ant species is stable over long time periods (Lange et al. 2013) and spatial scales (Dáttilo et al. 2013a), even after the disturbances generated by tropical hurricanes (Sánchez-Galván et al. 2012).”
Influence of extrafloral nectary phenology on ant–plant mutualistic networks in a neotropical savanna (2013, methodology): “…along the core–periphery gradient of the networks in each of the 19 months, we defined core or peripheral species components of the networks using (Dáttilo et al., 2013): Gc = ( k i −kmean z ) where Gc is the generalist core, ki is the mean number of links for given plant/ant species, kmean is…”