Table 3.

Average (N = 12) alpha-diversity values and relative abundance estimates of the archaeal classes. Cold and hot water from DWDSs A–B sampling location 2 (spring, summer, and autumn seasons), alpha-diversity rarefaction value of subset 443.

Community estimator	Analysis/taxa	Cold water	Hot water
Alpha-diversity	Richness, Chao 1	186	128
	Evenness, Shannon	4.1	4.0
Relative abundance (%), class	Bathyarchaeia	5.4%	14.0%
	Group 1 1c	0.1%	0.2%
	Iairchaeia	3.6%	4.5%
	Marine Benthic Group A	0.4%	0.5%
	Methanomicrobia	3.9%	0.8%
	Micrarchaeia	3.6%	5.4%
	Nitrososphaeria	19.3%	18.9%
	Nanohaloarchaeia	0.2%	0.0%
	Thermoplasmata	0.6%	0.8%
	Not assigned	1.4%	2.6%
	Woesearchaeia	61.4%	52.3%