Table 6.

Effect of HE on α-diversity^a.

	Treatment
Items	BD	HE1	HE2	SEM	P -value
Chao1	2646.26	2901.59	2890.06	119.27	0.642
Observed_species	2397.80	2674.15	2592.62	110.59	0.606
Shannon	8.19	8.62	8.65	0.161	0.460
Simpson	0.97	0.98	0.99	0.004	0.356
Pielou_e	0.73	0.76	0.76	0.011	0.444
Faith_pd	130.11	148.46	141.11	4.672	0.287
Goods_coverage	0.99	0.99	0.99	0.001	0.646

Different lowercase letters with the same column date meant significant difference (P ≤ 0.05).

^aEach value represents the mean of 6 replicate pens.