Table 3. Archaeal and bacterial estimates of α-diversity metrics for the samples collected from Ursu and Fara Fund lakes.
| Lake | Depth (m) | α-Diversity indices |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| PD | OS | S | ||
| Archaea | ||||
| Ursu | 3.5 | 8.512 | 73 | 2.715 |
| Ursu | 9 | 8.821 | 93.14 | 3.346 |
| Fara Fund | 0.5 | 2.388 | 27.13 | 0.21 |
| Fara Fund | 2 | 3.637 | 46.23 | 0.302 |
| Fara Fund | 3 | 4.209 | 56.63 | 2.992 |
| Fara Fund | 11 | 10.418 | 124.71 | 4.062 |
| Bacteria | ||||
| Ursu | 0.5 | 12.9 | 112.42 | 4.644 |
| Ursu | 2.5 | 20.903 | 188.12 | 4.994 |
| Ursu | 3.5 | 27.31 | 250.02 | 4.996 |
| Ursu | 9 | 29.426 | 272.32 | 5.456 |
| Fara Fund | 0.5 | 16.468 | 124.26 | 3.741 |
| Fara Fund | 2 | 15.018 | 101.93 | 3.284 |
| Fara Fund | 3 | 9.782 | 55.23 | 2.299 |
| Fara Fund | 11 | 23.77 | 193.76 | 3.536 |
Abbreviations: OS, observed species; PD, phylogenetic diversity; S, Shannon.