Table 2.

Prokaryotic diversity (H′) and evenness (J) in three aquatic microbial samples at rank of phylum, class, order, and genus

	Phylum		Class		Order		Genus
Sample	H′	J	H′	J	H′	J	H′	J
Coral reef	1.2	0.46	1.7	0.55	3.9	0.81	4.2	0.83
Stromatolite	1.1	0.42	1.16	0.37	2.7	0.55	3.6	0.70
Solar saltern	0.8	0.31	1.0	0.32	1.4	0.28	2.6	0.45