. 2020 Jul 23;15(7):e0229192. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229192

Table 3. Fungal species richness and diversity estimators for fecal microbial communities across location¹ and tolerance groups².

	BBCFL		UPRS		P-value³
Diversity Parameter	HT	LT	HT	LT	T	L	T*L
Ace (richness)	4970.96^b (1405.16)	7282.02^ab (1405.16)	10593^a (1405.16)	9697.22^a (1481.17)	0.623	0.008	0.268
Chao (richness)	2732.72^b (544.6)	3270.42^b (544.6)	5256.33^a (544.6)	4026.99^ab (574.06)	0.535	0.005	0.119
Npshannon (diversity)	3.27^ab (0.28)	2.86^b (0.28)	4.05^a (0.28)	2.48^b (0.3)	0.001	0.484	0.05
Shannon (diversity)	3.1^ab (0.27)	2.69^bc (0.27)	3.82^a (0.27)	2.23^c (0.27)	0.001	0.653	0.039
Simpson (evenness)	0.151^b (0.06)	0.272^ab (0.06)	0.132^b (0.06)	0.372^a (0.062)	0.005	0.501	0.325

¹BBCFL, Butner Beef Cattle Field Laboratory (Bahama, NC, USA); UPRS, Upper Piedmont Research Station (UPRS; Piedmont, NC, USA)

²HT, High Tolerance; LT, Low Tolerance

³T, Tolerance group (HT or LT); L, Location (BBCFL or UPRS); L*T, interaction between T and L

^a,b,c Significant differences in alpha diversity values between diversity parameter and effect (T, L, T*L) are designated by lowercase letters (P<0.05)

Numbers within parentheses represent standard error measurements

Table 3. Fungal species richness and diversity estimators for fecal microbial communities across location1 and tolerance groups2.

Table 3. Fungal species richness and diversity estimators for fecal microbial communities across location¹ and tolerance groups².