Table 3. 16S rRNA sequence tag and alpha diversity characteristics among sites.

Sample	Trimmed reads	Sampled reads	OTU (97%)	Coverage	Npshannon	Simpson	Chao
Chowder Hill-bacteria	3997	3544	340	0.948	3.30	0.168	647.23
Dead Dog-bacteria	3544	3544	341	0.957	3.69	0.141	572.12
Needles-bacteria	3983	3544	278	0.966	3.19	0.203	458.02
Chowder Hill-archaea	783	308	76	0.877	3.59	0.095	134.58
Dead Dog-archaea	308	308	58	0.903	3.34	0.071	97.55
Needles-archaea	2587	308	35	0.938	2.24	0.233	63.5

Abbreviation: OTU, operational taxonomic unit.