. 2021 Mar 19;11:6416. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-81865-6

Table 2.

The alpha-diversity indices of prokaryotic microbiota in the different peat swamp forest types based on soil depth.

Depth and forest types	Shannon Index²	Chao1¹	Observed Species¹	PD Whole Tree¹
0–20 cm
MPS	8.29 ± 0.11^a	10,918.79 ± 276.90^a	3385.8 ± 62.8^a	143.50 ± 2.08^a
ABt	9.01 ± 0.04^b	12,042.47 ± 3 12.75^b	3958.3 ± 51.2^b	170.39 ± 2.00^b
ABg	8.92 ± 0.01^b	11,030.92 ± 159.09^a	3717.2 ± 13.5^c	161.98 ± 0.71^c
30–50 cm
MPS	8.26 ± 0.08a^b	9234.13 ± 369.47^a	3207.5 ± 90.7^a	141.89 ± 2.87^a
ABt	8.00 ± 0.09^a	10,123.32 ± 339.99^a	3221.1 ± 78.3^a	147.08 ± 2.95^a
ABg	8.59 ± 0.07^b	11,867.66 ± 358.93^b	3662.1 ± 81.5^b	162.30 ± 3.03^b

Values are mean ± standard error. Rarefied samples (22,738 sequences) were used for the analyses. Different letters in the same column indicate significant difference at the level of P < 0.05 based on Tukey’s HSD test (¹) or pairwise Wilcox test (²).