  We study in depth the nesting graph and volume distribution of the nodal
domains of a Gaussian field, which have been shown in previous works to exhibit
asymptotic laws. A striking link is established between the asymptotic mean
connectivity of a nodal domain (i.e.\ the vertex degree in its nesting graph)
and the positivity of the percolation probability of the field, along with a
direct dependence of the average nodal volume on the percolation probability.
Our results support the prevailing ansatz that the mean connectivity and volume
of a nodal domain is conserved for generic random fields in dimension $d=2$ but
not in $d \ge 3$, and are applied to a number of concrete motivating examples.
