TABLE 3.
Pairwise comparisons of species compositions of rDNA libraries from triplicate unimproved and improved grassland soil samples
| Soil samples | Library | Similarity coefficienta
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| Libraries from unimproved grassland
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Libraries from improved grassland
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| SAF1 | SAF2 | SAF3 | SL1 | SL2 | ||
| Unimproved | SAF1 | |||||
| SAF2 | 0 | |||||
| SAF3 | 0.075 | 0.049 | ||||
| Improved | SL1 | 0.025 | 0.025 | 0 | ||
| SL2 | 0.132 | 0.026 | 0.125 | 0 | ||
| SL3 | 0.051 | 0.051 | 0.073 | 0.123 | 0.026 | |
a
The similarity coefficient (S) was determined as follows: S = 2 C/(A +B), where A and B are the numbers of OTUs in libraries A and B, respectively, and C is the number of shared OTUs.