Table 1.

Diversity indices of fungal assemblages present in soils of the Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) 140 and Whalers Bay sampling sites on Deception Island, as indicated by numbers of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) and compared with diversity results of cultivable fungi present in soils of Antarctica.

Indices	ASPA 140b	Whalers Bay	Gonçalves et al.23c	Gomes et al.24c
Numbers of ASVsa	240	255	15d	34d
Fisher α	25.23	26.25	10.26	4.45
Margalef	18.76	19.57	3.97	3.61
Simpson	0.91	0.93	0.85	0.95

^aASVs = amplicon sequence variants.

^bASPA = Antarctic Specially Protected Area.

^cGonçalves et al.²³ and Gomes et al.²⁴ represent diversity results of cultivable fungi.

^dNumber of fungal taxa detected.