Table 1.

Comparison of metabolic functional diversity indices of the rice microbial communities.

Sample	Shannon diversity (H′)	Shannon evenness (E)	Simpson diversity (D)
S1	3.378 ± 0.005 a	0.984 ± 0.002 a	0.962 ± 0.001 a
S2	3.313 ± 0.017 c	0.965 ± 0.005 c	0.964 ± 0.002 a
S3	3.340 ± 0.004 b	0.973 ± 0.001 b	0.963 ± 0.001 a

Data in the table are mean ± SE, n = 3. Using Duncan’s multiple range test of diversity indices separately, different letters of each column represent the significant difference at p < 0.05.