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. 2020 Oct 21;10:17931. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-74586-9

Table 2.

Observed OTUs (Obs. OTUs) and Shannon diversity index (Shannon div. ind.) in the herbs at different depth, month and of day sampling of the PTB.

	Bacteria		Fungi
	Obs. OTUs	Shannon div. ind.	Obs. OTUs	Shannon div. ind.
Depth of sampling
5 cm	340 ± 126	6.9 ± 1.19	82 ± 48	3.7 ± 1.75
40 cm	259 ± 87	6.5 ± 1.15	70 ± 56	3.3 ± 2.02
Month of sampling
July	381 ± 136^a	7.4 ± 0.76^a	85 ± 56	3.6 ± 1.00^ab
August	369 ± 289^a	7.2 ± 0.77^a	59 ± 39	2.6 ± 2.09^a
October	153 ± 111^b	5.5 ± 1.17^b	85 ± 38	4.2 ± 1.21^b
Day of sampling
Day 0	318 ± 166^a	7.0 ± 1.14^a	133 ± 16^a	5.3 ± 0.35^a
Day 2	451 ± 268^a	7.1 ± 1.56^a	106 ± 38^a	4.6 ± 1.17^a
Day 3	411 ± 209^a	7.1 ± 0.98^a	77 ± 49^b	3.3 ± 1.87^b
Day 5	177 ± 96^b	6.2 ± 1.13^b	41 ± 35^bc	2.6 ± 1.71^b
Day 7	138 ± 28^b	6.0 ± 0.62^b	22 ± 19^c	1.6 ± 1.11^c

Results are showed as mean values ± standard deviations.

For a given column and month, observed OTUs and Shannon diversity index values with a, b and c superscripts are significantly different (p < 0.05).