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. 2018 Mar 16;9:386. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00386

Table 2.

Fungal community alpha diversity indexes across season.

Season 2015 2016
Chao1 Shannon Chao1 Shannon
Spring 136.0a 2.21b 141.9b 2.33b
Mid 140.4a 2.26b 141.6b 2.16b
Fall 150.9a 2.44a 163.9a 2.62a
ANOVA
CropSeq 0.4 0.039* 0.002** 0.015*
Season 0.24 0.017* 0.003** <0.001***
CropSeq*Season 0.97 0.38 0.03* 0.03*

The data are means across all 40 samples, 10 crop sequences each with four replicates within each season. Different lowercase letters indicate a significant difference across seasons at P < 0.05 by Tukey's HSD test. Significant differences by ANOVA are reported at

*

P < 0.05,

**

P < 0.01, and

***

P < 0.001.