Table 1.

Estimated OTU richness and diversity indices of the eight different seaweeds collected from intertidal zones of Mission Rocks, South Africa.

	SW1	SW2	SW3	SW4	SW5	SW6	SW7	SW8
OTUs	431	1038	504	316	737	460	120	746
Dominance_D	0.034	0.052	0.121	0.147	0.025	0.045	0.431	0.127
Simpson_1-D	0.967	0.948	0.879	0.853	0.975	0.955	0.569	0.873
Shannon_H	4.502	4.065	3.075	3.024	4.847	3.983	1.544	3.647
Evenness_e^H/S	0.209	0.0561	0.043	0.065	0.1728	0.117	0.039	0.051
Chao-1	525.01	523.13	611.85	480.19	997.01	722.62	83.11	1072.71
ACE	220.07	179.33	381.61	173.42	444.1	307.72	40.38	445.39