Simulated poaching affects global connectivity and efficiency in social networks of African savanna elephants—An exemplar of how human disturbance impacts group-living species
Fig 3
Social network graphs of the empirically based population with color partitioning according to a core group, considered from the perspective of either (A) age category or (B) betweenness centrality; and a comparable example of a virtual population with the partitioning according to a core group, and either (C) age category or (D) betweenness centrality. The nodes are ranked by size where the largest nodes indicate oldest age or highest betweenness centrality. The links are color coded to match the nodes they originate from and ranked according to their relative weight. The thickness scheme depicting the weight of each link ranges from thin (low) to thick (high weight). The links with weight less than 5 percent were filtered out for visual clarity.