Supplement to chapter 21 of the book "Phyllostomid Bats: A Unique Mammalian Radiation", edited by Theodore H. Fleming, Liliana M. Dávalos, and Marco A. R. Mello, and published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Authors: Marco A. R. Mello & Renata L. Muylaert.

E-mail: [email protected].

Published on September 22nd, 2020 (English version).

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Here you will find the supplementary material of chapter 21 "Network Science as a Framework for Bat Studies", written by Marco A. R. Mello and Renata L. Muylaert.

We also provide scripts and data for reproducing the analyses and figures published in our chapter.

1. BatBookChap21.Rproj -> R project file. Run this file first, if you plan on running the codes directly from "chap21.R".

2. Tutorial.Rmd -> tutorial written in RMarkDown. You may prefer to run it instead of "chap21.R", if you are not so familiar with R.

3. Tutorial.PDF -> the same tutorial provided in "Tutorial.Rmd", but compiled as a PDF document.

4. Data (folder)

   a. chapter 21 supplement.xlsx -> main supplement of our chapter, mentioned in the book. It contains all the information extracted from the studies included in our systematic review. See the metadata tab inside for detailed descriptions.

5. Analysis (folder)

   a. chap21.R -> script for reproducing the analysis and figures.

   b. MyDiamond.R -> R function required for creating the diamond shape used in Fig.21.3, procuded with the code from "chap21.R".

   c. sarmento.txt -> data from the Sarmento bat-bird-plant network. Originally published by Sarmento et al. (2014, Zoologia).

   d. software.txt -> data from the software-reference network, compiled from "chapter 21 supplement.xlsx".

   e. studies.txt -> data from the studies included in our systematic review, compiled from "chapter 21 supplement.xlsx".

   f. figures 21.1 to 21.4.tiff -> figures produced with the code from "chap21.R".

If you have questions, corrections, or suggestions, feel free to open an issue or send us a pull request.

We thank our colleagues from several institutions all over the world, who have published inspiring papers on bats using network science as a framework. Special thanks go to Elisabeth K. V. Kalko, who helped us interpret the biological meaning of network metrics, and to Pedro Jordano and Paulo Guimarães Jr., who opened the doors of the amazing network world to us. Pedro Jordano and Christoph Meyer reviewed the first version of our chapter and helped us improve it considerably. We are also grateful to Carsten Dormann, who created bipartite for R and made network analysis much easier. Katherine Ognyanova gave us invaluable tips on how to draw networks in R, and we strongly recommend her online tutorial. MARM was funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH, # 3.4–8151/15037), Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, #302700/2016–1, and scholarships given to students), Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, scholarships given to students), and Dean of Research of the Uni- versity of São Paulo (PRP-USP, 18.1.660.41.7). RLM received PhD scholarships from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, #2015-17739-4, #2017-21816-0). Last, but not least, we thank the Stack Overflow Community, where we solve most of our coding dilemmas.

Mello, M. A. R., and R. L. Muylaert. 2020. Network Science as a Framework for Bat Studies. Chapter 21 in T. H. Fleming, L. M. Dávalos, and M. A. R. Mello (Eds.) Phyllostomid Bats: A Unique Mammalian Radiation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.