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. 2018 Mar 7;15(3):469. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15030469

Table 3.

Functional diversity of water bacterial communities associated with Geming lake (LG), Lianhu lake (LL), and Xingqing lake (LX) in Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, China.

Parameters LG LL LX ANOVA
AWCD590nm 0.49 ± 0.03C 0.90 ± 0.12A 0.67 ± 0.06B **
Amino acids 0.17 ± 0.01C 0.74 ± 0.2A 0.57 ± 0.07B ***
Carboxylic acids 0.30 ± 0.08B 0.78 ± 0.2A 0.44 ± 0.03B ***
Carbohydrates 0.83 ± 0.1B 1.05 ± 0.2A 0.85 ± 0.05B **
Amines 0.55 ± 0.03B 0.96 ± 0.1A 0.68 ± 0.02B **
Phenolic compounds 0.41 ± 0.1B 0.67 ± 0.1A 0.68 ± 0.1A *
Polymers 0.85 ± 0.1B 1.26 ± 0.2A 0.87 ± 0.1B **
Richness diversity (R) 17 ± 1.20B 23 ± 0.9A 20 ± 2.3AB *
Shannon’s diversity (H’) 3.50 ± 0.6C 5.4 ± 0.7A 4.48 ± 0.9B *

Values shown as means and standard deviations (three replicates). Different capital letter represents statistical significance. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01 and *** p < 0.001 represent statistical significance using one way-ANOVA.