Both blue and green food webs showed a trend of decreasing nestedness with increasing elevation (Fig. 5 ).
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Regarding direct effects, elevation positively influenced modularity (standardised coefficient: 0.49) and negatively influenced niche overlap (−0.53) in green food webs, while the opposite (−0.38 and marginally significant 0.10, respectively) was observed in blue ones (Fig. 3c ; Supplementary Table 7 ).