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Table IV

Temperature of nestedness analysed by The bipartite Package 0.73 (Dorman et al., 2008) for the data set of 2005: real data, null-model 1 (Patefield algorithm), null-model 2 (Shuffle) and null-model 3 (swap-algorithm).

T TSim P
Observed data 33.4
Null-model 1 46.1 ± 5.2 < 0.001
Null-model 2 39.6 ± 0.9 0.02
Null-model 3 38.5 ± 5.0 0.01