Table 3. Bacterial diversity statisticsa calculated at the OTU (3%) level.
| Plot | Good's coverage % | # OTUs | Inverse Simpson | Shannon | Smith and Wilson's Evenness |
| A1 | 95.8 (0.9) | 970 (178) | 51.0 (23.3) | 5.08 (0.36) | 0.34 (0.02) |
| A2 | 96.5 (0.5) | 819 (78) | 37.1 (10.0) | 4.77 (0.17) | 0.37 (0.01) |
| P1 | 94.0 (0.9) | 1212 (174) | 40.0 (25.1) | 5.12 (0.47) | 0.29 (0.03) |
| P2 | 95.7 (0.9) | 972 (199) | 34.0 (13.6) | 4.88 (0.42) | 0.33 (0.04) |
| V1 | 94.9 (0.8) | 1031 (186) | 43.1 (14.7) | 4.96 (0.37) | 0.33 (0.03) |
| V2 | 96.0 (0.8) | 838 (120) | 29.1 (14.6) | 4.64 (0.32) | 0.37 (0.02) |
a
Shown are the mean and (sd) of each statistic calculated for 5 sequencing samples per plot.