Fig. 3: The effects of ecological boundaries on interaction dissimilarity (β_WN).

Histograms and inset quantile-quantile (Q–Q) plots showing differences in the distributions of interaction dissimilarity values between pairs of networks located within (“same”) and across (“distinct”) ecoregions and biomes. The effects of ecoregion and biome boundaries were significant, even after controlling for the other predictor variables in the model (Table 1). We square root transformed the x-axis scale to allow a better visualization of the distribution of data points (pairs of networks) with interaction dissimilarity values <1. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.