Table 5.
Mean alpha diversity parameters from method B using the filtered table.
| Parameter | LRFI | HRFI | p-Value 1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observed features | 539 | 587 | 0.36 |
| Evenness | 0.77 | 0.78 | 0.41 |
| Faith PD | 26.9 | 27.6 | 0.65 |
| Shannon | 6.9 | 7.2 | 0.49 |
1 p-values come from the Kruskal–Wallis test. A minimum of 10,000 sequences was chosen to include all samples. A filtered table refers to a table where features appearing in less than 4 samples and with less than 20 in frequency were removed.