Table 2.

Seawater parameters and alpha diversity indices of bacterial communities and richness among all samples collected and consolidated by site

Site	Air temp (°C)	Seawater parameter data								Bacterial diversity indicesa
		Seawater temp. (°C)	pH	% NaCl	Turbidity (NTU)a	TSS (mg/l)a	Total N (mg/l)a	Total P (mg/l)a	BOD5 (mg/l)a	OTUs	Chao1	ACE	Shannon	Simpson
A	28	29	7.0	4.0	10.96± 0.25db	22.00± 0.80a	0.42 ± 0.06bc	0.03± 0.01a	1.90 ± 0.00de	5854	1940.77 ± 69.19c	2022.59 ± 68.24c	7.33 ± 0.06bc	0.97 ± 0.00b
B	25	28	7.2	4.0	12.60 ± 0.26e	26.66± 1.00a	0.42 ± 0.06bc	0.04± 0.01ab	3.76 ± 0.23f	4968	1631.89 ± 41.68ab	1675.02 ± 47.72ab	7.23 ± 0.04b	0.97 ± 0.00b
C	30	29	7.1	4.0	10.80 ± 0.17d	27.53± 0.30a	0.13± 0.00a	0.04± 0.00ab	1.40± 0.10bc	4829	1588.03± 25.36ab	1649.36± 37.50ab	7.46± 0.06 cd	0.97± 0.00b
D	26	31	7.4	4.0	24.80 ± 0.30f	65.60± 1.74c	0.21± 0.06ab	0.06± 0.00bc	1.43± 0.05bc	5023	1630.61± 7.82ab	1708.45± 24.40ab	6.91± 0.05a	0.96± 0.00a
E	27	30	7.4	4.0	3.76 ± 0.20b	43.86 ± 1.00b	0.54 ± 0.07 cd	0.03 ± 0.00a	1.66 ± 0.05 cd	5284	1813.01 ± 209.44bc	1851.33 ± 195.23bc	7.40 ± 0.01c	0.97 ± 0.00b
F	31	27	6.7	3.0	91.33 ± 0.57 g	165.33 ± 5.03d	0.67 ± 0.09d	0.07 ± 0.00c	1.16 ± 0.11ab	6016	1946.48 ± 177.06c	2037.32 ± 218.82c	7.60 ± 0.07d	0.98 ± 0.00c
G	26	30	7.5	1.0	102.00 ± 1.00 h	177.66 ± 5.50e	1.30 ± 0.13e	0.10 ± 0.01d	2.03 ± 0.05e	5000	1622.41 ± 66.51ab	1680.02 ± 88.45ab	7.84 ± 0.00e	0.98 ± 0.00c
H	29	28	6.9	4.0	7.86 ± 0.15c	36.66 ± 1.52b	0.42 ± 0.06bc	0.06 ± 0.00c	1.26 ± 0.11bc	4696	1545.04 ± 16.43ab	1608.19 ± 31.63ab	7.00 ± 0.06a	0.97 ± 0.00b
I	31	30	7.0	4.0	2.32 ± 0.03a	28.33 ± 0.57a	0.38 ± 0.00bc	0.07 ± 0.01c	0.90 ± 0.00a	4246	1383.67 ± 77.21a	1443.29 ± 63.56a	6.92 ± 0.06a	0.97 ± 0.00b

All sites were sampled in triplicate (n = 3)

^aValues are the means from three samplings ± standard deviations

^bValues with the same letters within a column are not significantly different according to Tukey’s test