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. 2015 Jun 17;12(6):6933–6945. doi: 10.3390/ijerph120606933

Table 1.

Vertical distribution of water bacterial community diversity and richness estimators of the JINPEN drinking water reservoir during thermal stratification in June 2013.

Thermal Stratification Water Depths Reads Number 0.97 Level
OTUs Diversity Estimator Richness Estimator
ACE Chao1 Shannon Simpson
Epilimnion 0.5 m 15,656 346 402 407 3.76 0.074
5 m 26,128 476 507 506 4.25 0.038
10 m 24,006 383 431 430 3.47 0.107
Metalimnion 20 m 17,933 419 475 473 4.10 0.067
25 m 13,199 401 451 454 4.24 0.046
30 m 37,943 456 482 482 4.04 0.060
Hypolimnion 45 m 19,711 438 466 462 4.41 0.038
50 m 35,062 451 474 474 4.16 0.052
55 m 8282 371 434 443 4.33 0.040
65 m 12,197 386 445 456 4.03 0.044

Abbreviation: ACE, abundance based-coverage estimator. OTUs, operational taxonomic units. The water bacterial community diversity estimators were calculated on 210,117 reads.