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. 2014 May 16;8(11):2272–2279. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2014.70

Table 1. α-Diversity measurements: OTU richness (number of unique OTUs), ChaoI species richness index, Shannon diversity index, at cutoff values of 95%, 97%, 98% and 99% of nucleotide identity.

  OTU richness (count of unique OTUs)
ChaoI index
Shannon index
  99% 98% 97% 95% 99% 98% 97% 95% 99% 98% 97% 95%
Pretreatment 10.43 (±0.82) 6.43 (±1.69) 6 (±1.15) 6 (±1.34) 15.58 (±3.08) 7.35 (±2.54) 6.85 (±1.97) 6.65 (±1.89) 2.80 (±0.03) 2.20 (±0.17) 2.16 (±0.10) 2.17 (±0.15)
Control 12.83 (±2.32) 8.53 (±2.73) 7.96 (±2.20) 8 (±2.16) 19.61 (±5.94) 9.66 (±3.69) 8.34 (±2.46) 8.44 (±2.50) 3.06 (±0.36) 2.55 (±0.55) 2.15 (±0.50) 2.50 (±0.49)
+2 °C 26.16 (±2.87) 21.9 (±1.98) 18.6 (±2.94) 16 (±1.8) 65.70 (±10.38) 76.96 (±26.97) 42.51 (±10.68) 36.27 (±6.24) 4.50 (±0.25) 4.03 (±0.21) 3.72 (±0.31) 3.45 (±0.18)
+4.5 °C 26.53 (±2.87) 20. 96 (±2.49) 20 (±2.12) 17.56 (±1.76) 93.34 (±28.77 44.81 (±12.53) 39.17 (±6.74) 38.59 (±16.24) 4.43 (±0.29) 3.96 (±0.27) 3.91 (±0.26) 3.65 (±0.17)

Abbreviation: OTU, operational taxonomic unit.