Table 2.
Alpha diversity of microbiome evenness, richness and varieties of species in the sediments.
| Bacteria | Eukarya | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biofilm water (AMD-EB) | Enrichment culture (AMD-EC) | Biofilm water (AMD-EB) | |
| Actual | |||
| Valid reads | 26,160 | 26,373 | 40,403 |
| OTUs | 2036 | 95 | 1002 |
| Estimated richness | |||
| ACE | 2293.26 | 133.37 | 1033.01 |
| HCI | 2346.43 | 169.09 | 1047.66 |
| LCI | 2244.59 | 109.57 | 1019.11 |
| Chao1 | 2174.97 | 126.23 | 1016.11 |
| HCI | 2217.70 | 173.29 | 1029.93 |
| LCI | 2142.28 | 107.46 | 1009.13 |
| JackKnife | 2438 | 127.45 | 1078 |
| HCI | 2438 | 145.15 | 1078 |
| LCI | 2438 | 109.75 | 1078 |
| Estimated diversity | |||
| NPShannon | 5.97 | 1.58 | 3.54 |
| Shannon | 5.86 | 1.57 | 3.51 |
| HCI | 5.88 | 1.59 | 3.54 |
| LCI | 5.84 | 1.55 | 3.48 |
| Simpson | 0.01 | 0.41 | 0.13 |
| HCI | 0.01 | 0.42 | 0.14 |
| LCI | 0.0097 | 0.41 | 0.13 |
| Phylogenetic diversity | 2779 | 182 | 1186 |
| Good’s Lib. coverage (%) | 98.45 | 99.89 | 99.81 |
Clustering of OTUs found was achieved with UCLUST and the open reference method as all taxa were selected for analysis.
HCI High Confidence Interval (95%), LCI Low Confidence Interval (95%), OTUs Operational taxonomic units determined at 97%.