DOI: 10.5061/dryad.mkkwh7121
title: A patch-dynamic metacommunity perspective on the persistence of mutualistic and antagonistic bipartite networks

description: The structure of interactions between species within a community plays a
 key role in maintaining biodiversity. Previous studies have found that the
 effects of these structures might substantially differ depending on
 interaction type, for example, a highly connected and nested architecture
 stabilizes mutualistic communities, while the stability of antagonistic
 communities is enhanced in modular and weakly connected structures. Here
 we show that, when network dynamics are modelled using a patch-dynamic
 metacommunity framework, the qualitative differences between antagonistic
 and mutualistic systems disappear, with nestedness and modularity
 interacting to promote metacommunity persistence. However, the interactive
 effects are significantly weaker in antagonistic metacommunities. Our
 model also predicts an increase in connectance, nestedness and modularity
 over time in both types of interaction, except in antagonistic networks
 where nestedness declines. At steady state, we find a strong negative
 correlation between nestedness and modularity in both mutualistic and
 antagonistic metacommunities. These predictions are consistent with the
 structural trends found in a large dataset of real-world antagonistic and
 mutualistic communities.
description: This dataset was collected from previous literature or from the
 website of database. Please see more details below: 1.
 Data set referring to "plant-ant', "pollination",
 "seed-dispersal", "plant-herbivory" &
 "host-parasite" from the website of Jordi Bascompte's lab:
 http:www.web-of-life.es/<br>2. "Plant-herbivory003" from
 "Vojtech Novotny, Scott E Miller, Jan Hrcek, Leontine Baje, Yves
 Basset, Owen T Lewis, Alan JA Stewart, and George D Weiblen. Insects on
 plants: explaining the paradox of low diversity within specialist
 herbivore guilds. The American Naturalist, 179(3):351–362,
 2012."<br>3. "Fishparasite001-030" from "Sybelle
 Bellay, Edson Fontes de Oliveira, Mário Almeida-Neto, Dilermando Pereira
 Lima Junior, Ricardo Massato Takemoto, and José Luis Luque. Developmental
 stage of parasites influences the structure of fish-parasite networks.
 PloS one, 8(10):e75710, 2013."<br>4.
 “Plant-Herbivory001-003,008-015,” from "PAULO INáCIO PRADO, &
 Lewinsohn, T. M. . (2004). Compartments in insect–plant associations and
 their consequences for community structure. Journal of Animal Ecology,
 73(6), 1168-1178." & "Morrison, B. M. L. , Brosi, B. J.
 , & Dirzo, R. . (2020). Agricultural intensification drives
 changes in hybrid network robustness by modifying network structure.
 Ecology Letters, 23, 359-369."<br>5. “Plant-herbivory016”from
 "Sebastien Ibanez, Sandra Lavorel, Sara Puijalon, and Marco Moretti.
 (2013). Herbivory mediated by coupling between biomechanical traits of
 plants and grasshoppers. Functional Ecology,
 27(2):479–489."<br>6. “Hostparasite052-083”from "Shai
 Pilosof, Miguel A Fortuna, Maxim V Vinarski, Natalia P Korallo-Vinarskaya,
 and Boris R Krasnov. (2013). Temporal dynamics of direct reciprocal and
 indirect effects in a host–parasite network. Journal of Animal Ecology,
 82(5), 987-996." & “Boris R Krasnov, Miguel A Fortuna, David
 Mouillot, Irina S Khokhlova, Georgy I Shenbrot, and Robert Poulin. (2012)
 Phylogenetic signal in module composition and species connectivity in
 compartmentalized hostparasite networks. The American Naturalist,
 179(4):501–511.”<br>7. Data set about "Seed-eating
 insects", "Seed-eating birds" and "Seed-eating
 rodents" from: Sauve, A.M.C., Thébault, E., Pocock, M.J.O., &
 Fontaine, C. (2016). How plants connect pollination and herbivory networks
 and their contribution to community stability. Ecology 97,
 908-917.<br>8. Data set about "Plant-fly" and
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 & Sun, S. (2017). Plant-mediated resource partitioning by
 coexisting parasitoids. Ecology 98, 1660-1670.<br> 
description: # A patch-dynamic metacommunity perspective on the persistence of
 mutualistic and antagonistic bipartite networks
 ## Description of the data
 and file structure Empirical mutualistic and antagonistic networks
 compiled in DataS1.zip: "Mutualism.zip" data consisting of 148
 plant-pollinator, 34 plant-seed disperser, and 4 plant-ant systems, while
 "Antagonism.zip" including 17 plant-herbivore, 83 host-parasite,
 1 seed-eating bird, 30 fish-parasite, 1 fly-wasp, 1 plant-fly, 1
 seed-eating insect and 1 seed-eating rodent systems. More detailed data
 sources seen in 'Readme.txt'. These binary data were edited as
 csv format, with the rows representing resource basal species (e.g.,
 plants, hosts, seeds, fish, etc.) while the columns being consumers (e.g.,
 herbivores, birds, parasites, wasps, insects, ants, pollinators, seed
 dispersers, etc.). In these data, the binary value "0"
 represents there is no interaction between both species while
 "1" means both species can interact.