| AWCD | The Average Colour development |
| AVS | Amplicon Sequence Variants |
| CLPP | Community Level Physiological Profiling |
| E | Shannon evenness index |
| H’ | Shannon diversity index |
| HSD test | Honestly Significant Difference test |
| IPM | Integrated Pest Management |
| PCoA | Principal coordinate analysis |
| R | Richness index |
| RDP | Ribosomal Database Project |
| TSA | Tryptic Soy Agar |