. 2020 Apr 8;11:571. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00571

TABLE 2.

Coverage and alpha diversity among bacterial communities in the rhizosphere of Cistanthe longiscapa during full-flowering in 2014 and 2015 flowering desert events.

Year	Sample number	Coverage (%)	S_obs^†	Shannon index	Simpson (D’)
2014	5	97.25 ± 1.39^A,*,^‡	1,665.00 ± 496.39^B	8.84 ± 1.36^B	0.9876 ± 0.012^B
2015	4	96.00 ± 1.25^A	2,178.00 ± 179.61^A	10.19 ± 0.2^A	0.9973 ± 0.001^A

^†S_obs: number of OTUs observed at 97% similarity. ^‡Values represent mean ± standard error. *Different letter denotes statistical difference (P ≤ 0.05, Tukey test) in the same column.