TABLE 2.

nifH diversity and coverage estimates for root DNA and RNA and shoot DNA

DNA/RNA type and parameter	Value for plant no.:										Avg
	E-01	E-04	E-06	E-08	E-13	E-18	E-28	E-31	E-36	E-40
Root DNA
No. of taxa	11	12	14	15	8	10	5	5	9	9	9.8
No. of clones	48	48	48	44	48	46	46	44	44	48	46.4
Good's estimator (%)	89.58	83.33	93.75	79.55	95.83	93.48	97.83	93.18	93.18	95.83	91.55
Dominance	0.201	0.237	0.133	0.137	0.248	0.158	0.306	0.717	0.185	0.170	0.249
1 − Simpson diversity index	0.799	0.763	0.867	0.863	0.752	0.842	0.694	0.283	0.815	0.829	0.750
Shannon's diversity index	1.897	1.8	2.311	2.266	1.647	2.002	1.333	0.622	1.86	1.929	1.766
Evenness	0.606	0.50411	0.721	0.643	0.649	0.740	0.759	0.372	0.711	0.765	0.646
Root RNA
No. of taxa	5	6	3		1	1		3	1	6	3.25
No. of clones	41	31	32		33	25		19	32	34	30.87
Good's estimator (%)	97.56	93.33	100.00		100.00	100.00		100.00	100.00	100.00	98.86
Dominance	0.327	0.611	0.639		1	1		0.424	1	0.279	0.659
1 − Simpson diversity index	0.673	0.389	0.361		0	0		0.576	0	0.721	0.340
Shannon's diversity index	1.271	0.884	0.656		0	0		0.972	0	1.492	0.659
Evenness	0.713	0.404	0.643		1	1		0.882	1	0.741	0.798
Shoot DNA
No. of taxa	3	4	5	3	6	7	8	9	8	9	6.2
No. of clones	38	38	44	41	47	32	31	42	28	35	37.6
Good's estimator (%)	100.00	97.37	95.45	100.00	100.00	90.63	93.55	97.62	89.29	91.43	95.53
Dominance	0.367	0.540	0.371	0.411	0.231	0.320	0.213	0.194	0.212	0.211	0.307
1 − Simpson diversity index	0.633	0.459	0.629	0.589	0.769	0.679	0.787	0.806	0.788	0.789	0.693
Shannon's diversity index	1.043	0.872	1.155	0.967	1.579	1.437	1.769	1.874	1.753	1.827	1.428
Evenness	0.946	0.598	0.635	0.877	0.809	0.601	0.733	0.724	0.722	0.691	0.733