Fig. 1: Illustration of network-informed restoration strategies for mutualistic systems.

a Geographical and ecological information about the 30 real-world mutualistic interaction networks. b A representative mutualistic network generated synthetically c is used to show the secondary extinctions that a primary extinction trigger. d An example ecosystem (`M_PL_041' in Supplementary Table 1) is perturbed by removing 20% of the plant species (6 species). e Outcomes measured in terms of percentage mean abundance and persisting species recovered for restoration strategies based on each topological property are plotted over the solution space generated by all possible reintroduction sequences.