Research Article
Structure of Mutualistic Complex Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_95, author={Jun Hwang and Seong Maeng and Moon Cha and Jae Lee}, title={Structure of Mutualistic Complex Networks}, proceedings={Complex Sciences. First International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009. Revised Papers, Part 1}, proceedings_a={COMPLEX PART 1}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={complex network food web mutualistic network disparity disassortative}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_95} }- Jun Hwang
Seong Maeng
Moon Cha
Jae Lee
Year: 2012
Structure of Mutualistic Complex Networks
COMPLEX PART 1
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_95
Abstract
We consider the structures of six plant-pollinator mutualistic networks. The plants and pollinators are linked by the plant-pollinating relation. We assigned the visiting frequency of pollinators to a plant as a weight of each link. We calculated the cumulative distribution functions of the degree and strength for the networks. We observed a power-law, linear, and stretched exponential dependence of the cumulative distribution function. We also calculated the disparity and the strength of the nodes () with degree . We observed that the plant-pollinator networks exhibit an disassortative behaviors and nonlinear dependence of the strength on the nodes. In mutualistic networks links with large weight are connected to the neighbors with small degrees.