Table 2.

Infracommunity diversity indices (Richness, Shannon–Wiener, Simpson) ± 95% confidence intervals for macroparasite taxa for each lake, and p-value of the Kruskall–Wallis or Wilcoxon tests among lakes.

Index	Great lakes		Crater lakes
	Nicaraguaa	Managuab	Asososca Leónc	Apoyequed	Xiloáe	Masayaf	Apoyog	p-value
Species richness	2.45 ± 0.38g	2.21 ± 0.43g	2.82 ± 0.41dg	2.09 ± 0.41cg	2.77 ± 0.35g	2.47 ± 0.59g	3.53 ± 0.39abcdef	p < 0.001
Shannon–Wiener	0.27 ± 0.05g	0.27 ± 0.05g	0.23 ± 0.06g	0.38 ± 0.15fe	0.14 ± 0.16dg	0.13 ± 0.12dg	0.41 ± 0.06abce	p < 0.001
Simpson	0.36 ± 0.05	0.39 ± 0.06ce	0.24 ± 0.07b	0.22 ± 0.09	0.21 ± 0.07b	0.36 ± 0.12	0.29 ± 0.06	p < 0.001

Different letters indicate statistically significant differences in paired comparisons (p-values < 0.05).