Table 2.

Fungal alpha diversity along an elevational gradient on the Changbai Mountain, northeastern China¹.

Elevation (m a.s.l.)	Chao1 index	Richness index	Phylogenetic diversity index	Shannon index
1,690	1464.09 ± 105.47a	1097.83 ± 51.39a	200.07 ± 10.77a	6.64 ± 0.14a
1,800	1268.34 ± 32.80abc	877.53 ± 41.70abc	164.99 ± 4.86bc	6.15 ± 0.27ab
1,910	1425.33 ± 73.89ab	1023.50 ± 29.97ab	187.86 ± 5.24ab	6.74 ± 0.05a
2,020	1087.65 ± 223.13c	792.10 ± 139.36c	151.65 ± 19.67c	5.72 ± 0.56b

¹Values represent means ± standard deviations (n = 3). Different letters indicate significant (P < 0.05) differences between individual means assessed by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s HSD post-hoc testing.