Whole community invasions and the integration of novel ecosystems
Fig 7
The nestedness (top) and connectance (bottom) of amalgamated communities vs. final stable community size; the figure shows invasion by both stable communities (left) and a random selection of species (right). The “+” symbols indicate the medians. Nestedness is positively correlated with community size (more so for whole community invasion than for random species invasion), while connectance is negatively correlated with community size.