Table 1.
Total number of reads, OTUs and average diversity estimates for aquatic samples and dry sediment samples collected during droughts.
| No. months | No. reads | No. OTUs | Richness | Simpson index | Evenness | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ru Sainte Anne | Water | 22 | 174297 | 1956 | 166.1 | 0.90 | 0.68 |
| Sediment | 2 | 7391 | 432 | 220.2 | 0.97 | 0.82 | |
| All | 24 | 181688 | 2141 | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | |
| La Claye | Water | 18 | 187663 | 1063 | 83.9 | 0.78 | 0.54 |
| Sediment∗ | 6 | 23871 | 913 | 213.7 | 0.97 | 0.81 | |
| All | 24 | 211534 | 1685 | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | |
| Total | Water | 16 | 361960 | 2560 | 129.1 | 0.84 | 0.62 |
| Sediment∗ | 8 | 31262 | 1176 | 215.3 | 0.97 | 0.81 | |
| All | 24 | 393222 | 3132 | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | |
n.d., not determined.
∗Additionally, 3,559 high-quality reads corresponding to one replicate sample from La Claye dry sediment (34,821 sediment reads in total) were analyzed to validate reproducibility, but these data were excluded from this comparative table.