Regional differences in water beetle communities networks settling in dystrophic lakes in northern Poland.

ABSTRACT: The relationships between the species that form the networks in small dystrophic lakes remain poorly recognised. To investigate and better understand the functioning of beetle communities in different ecosystems, we created three network models that we subjected to graph network analysis. This approach displays correlation-based networks of connections (edges) between objects (nodes) by evaluating the features of the whole network and the attributes of nodes and edges in the context of their roles, expressed by centrality metrics. We used this method to determine the importance of specific species in the networks and the interspecific relationships. Our analyses are based on faunal material collected from 25 dystrophic lakes in three regions of northern Poland. We found a total of 104 spec

SUBMITTER: Pakulnicka J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10404283 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature