Table 2. Comparison of the estimated operational taxonomic unit (OTU) richness, diversity indexes and Pielous evenness of the 16S rRNA gene libraries for clustering at 97% identity as obtained from the pyrosequencing analysis.

Treatments	Observed OTUs	Shanon	Chao1	Pielous evenness (%)
RePlant	4328.1a	10.53a	9010.8a	87.17a
NewPlant	4509.9a	10.67a	9942.7ab	88.09a
ReSoil	5125.8b	11.02b	11371.8c	89.45a
NewSoil	5176.9b	11.12b	10614.9bc	88.53a

Averages of replicates ± standard error; means followed by different letters are significantly different at P<0.05.