Table 2.

Summary of OTU richness diversity indices of bacterial taxa in different forest landscape and adjacent sugar cane plantations^†.

Habitat	Elevation code	Valid reads	Observed OTUs	Chao1	Simpson evenness	Simpson diversity (1/D)	Goods Coverage (%)
Forest soils	UL	23,183 ± 3,813	228 ± 21a	243 ± 27a	0.964 ± 0.001ab	27.9 ± 0.9a	99.1
	LL	19,552 ± 3,244	297 ± 37b	310 ± 36b	0.974 ± 0.005a	39.4 ± 7.6b	99.7
	ML	19,818 ± 3,441	338 ± 76b	347 ± 77b	0.975 ± 0.008a	44.3 ± 15.2b	99.8
Sugarcane farm soil	SC	22,881 ± 3,842	248 ± 41ab	264 ± 47a	0.959 ± 0.007b	24.9 ± 3.8a	99.4
p-value		0.310	0.019	0.037	0.004	0.011	0.465

^†Sample comparison for diversity indices (OTUs, Chao1, Simpson evenness and diversity) were performed using rarefied datasets of 16,708 sequences representing the lowest number of reads in a sample. One-factor ANOVA was carried out to compare the sampling sites and post hoc (Tukey’s) tests applied. Different superscript letters within a column indicate significant differences at p ≤ 0.05.