Table 3.

Alpha diversity analysis on the MPFLR samples

Sampling time	Sample location	Observed	Simpson (D)	Shannon (H)	Shannon's equitability (EH)	Phylogenetic distance
8/3/2011	I	580	0.99	5.65	0.89	113.45
	T1	486	0.99	5.18	0.84	99.10
	T2	399	0.97	4.70	0.79	84.41
	T3	442	0.99	5.14	0.84	90.03
	E	457	0.99	5.16	0.84	96.92
9/15/2011	I	597	0.99	5.67	0.89	106.73
	T1	476	0.98	5.03	0.82	100.59
	T2	456	0.98	4.87	0.80	95.54
	T3	488	0.98	4.99	0.81	106.67
	E	472	0.98	4.96	0.80	100.65
9/30/2011	I	544	0.99	5.45	0.87	83.47
	T1	492	0.95	4.71	0.76	105.44
	T2	450	0.93	4.45	0.73	93.30
	T3	426	0.94	4.46	0.74	92.08
	E	398	0.91	4.16	0.69	88.46