Table 4. Values for enrichment (EI) and structural (SI) indices of soil nematode communities determined by both morphology and qPCR.
Soil sample 1 | Soil sample 2 | Soil sample 3 | ||||
morphology | qPCR | morphology | qPCR | morphology | qPCR | |
EI value | 92.0 | 92.1±2.3 | 92.9 | 89.8±8.89 | 92.5 | 95.2±1.71 |
SI value | 26.7 | 13.0±2.76 | 17.4 | 1.3±1.48 | 0.0 | 5.0±1.53 |
No. of nematodes | 175 | >200 | 166 | >200 | 106 | >200 |
The functional guilds of each genus [22] and their standard weightings were used to calculate the components of the food web from which the enrichment (EI) and structural (SI) indices were calculated for each soil sample (see [23] for further details). Values derived from qPCR data represent means ± sem.