On the Study of Structural Equivalency for Animal Conservation in Species-Habitat Network Form

Kerinci Seblat National Park is a combination of 17 forest groups located on the island of Sumatra. This study will discuss modeling the relationship between animals and their habitats in the form of an ecological network. The relationship between species and habitat is an essential topic in animal conservation. This relationship can be modeled as a graph called the habitat-species network, with two types of vertices: species (V^s ) or habitat (V^h ). The edge connecting a species vertex and a habitat vertex represents the species ever visiting the habitat. This study aimed to discuss three measures for describing the relationship between species and habitats: structural equivalence, Jaccard similarity, and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Structural equivalence of a group of habitats represents the similarity of animals that visit the same habitat, the Jaccard similarity describes the percentage of habitats visited by a pair of different animals, and Pearson’s correlation coefficient shows the significance of the relationship between the two species.