Table 6.
Number of sequences (seqs) for the pooled red snow samples for each glacier and the respective Shannon diversity index (H′).
| Glacier | Pooled | Eukaryotes | Bacteria | Archaea | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| samples | Raw seqs | Seqs after QC | H′ euk | Seqs assigned to algae | H′ algae | Raw seqs | Seqs after QC | Seqs assigned to bac | H′ bac | Raw seqs | Seqs after QC | Seqs assigned to arch | |
| Drangajökull | ICE-12_2/3 | 5474 | 2013 | 5.55 | 714 | 4.50 | 6383 | 2333 | 513 | 5.13 | 9206 | 1443 | 4* |
| Laugafell | ICE-12_4 | 1908 | 597 | 6.02 | 89 | 4.47 | 2533 | 818 | 120 | 5.27 | 18323 | 6294 | 540 |
| Hofsjökull | ICE-12_6/7 | 6523 | 2168 | 5.61 | 792 | 3.88 | 3105 | 1336 | 339 | 5.38 | 18956 | 623 | 33 |
| Vatnajökull | ICE-13_13/14/15 | 9948 | 3438 | 5.02 | 66 | 4.51 | 2689 | 770 | 14 | 5.06 | 4034 | 646 | 210 |
| Langjökull | ICE-13_16/18 | 318 | 104 | 5.65 | 340 | 4.26 | 2398 | 913 | 111 | 5.29 | 5675 | 643 | 334 |
| Langjökull | ICE-13_19 | 7273 | 3065 | 4.99 | 38 | 4.26 | 6541 | 2153 | 444 | 5.14 | 14680 | 4129 | 77 |
| Snaefellsjökull | ICE-13_21/23/24 | 5123 | 1588 | 5.51 | 41 | 4.04 | 5850 | 2032 | 486 | 3.97 | 9800 | 3072 | 338 |
| Eyafjallajökull | ICE-13_4/5/6 | 2391 | 1072 | 5.14 | 37 | 4.21 | 12075 | 2897 | 55 | 5.27 | 10862 | 2268 | 0* |
| Mýrdalsjökull | ICE-13_8/9 | 2479 | 809 | 5.14 | 8 | n.d. | 406 | 97 | 2* | n.d. | 14760 | 5426 | 3* |
| Eyafjallajökull | ICE-14_1 | 34082 | 23959 | 5.11 | 3357 | 1.74 | 3842 | 1884 | 938 | 4.53 | 85138 | 66535 | 65727 |
| Eyafjallajökull | ICE-14_2 | 8716 | 6962 | 3.75 | 3307 | 1.07 | 3875 | 2145 | 1158 | 4.64 | 841 | 809 | 558 |
| Eyafjallajökull | ICE-14_3 | 24555 | 17196 | 4.96 | 4460 | 1.81 | 13230 | 6843 | 3390 | 4.59 | 28203 | 22350 | 21572 |
*
Removed from analysis due to low sequence numbers, n.d., not determined due to low sequence numbers.