TABLE 2.

Medians of alpha diversity indices in each group

	Bacteria				Fungi
Characteristic	Faith’s PD	Observed features	Pielou’s evenness	Shannon entropy	Faith’s PD	Observed features	Pielou’s evenness	Shannon entropy
Infraorder
Dipsocoromorpha	1.98	20.00	0.71	2.95	12.06	71.00	0.42	2.91
Enicocephalomorpha	1.46	15.00	0.81	2.92	6.08	37.00	0.82	4.27
Gerromorpha	2.07	15.00	0.72	2.67	12.01	61.00	0.81	5.00
Nepomorpha	2.88	20.00	0.74	3.22	11.53	45.50	0.43	2.23
Leptopodomorpha	1.63	17.00	0.70	2.96	9.07	29.00	0.69	3.29
Cimicomorpha	1.71	12.00	0.70	2.11	14.69	65.00	0.68	3.67
Pentatomomorpha	1.59	23.00	0.92	4.11	13.85	74.50	0.83	5.07
Province
Tibet	1.48	8.00	0.64	1.92	16.94	73.50	0.74	4.51
InnerMongolia	1.60	9.00	0.64	2.03	20.68	87.00	0.70	4.52
Ningxia	2.14	16.00	0.52	1.78	19.84	95.00	0.77	5.10
Shaanxi	1.90	15.00	0.62	2.40	22.27	141.00	0.73	5.25
Shanxi	2.04	13.00	0.41	1.69	23.01	139.50	0.86	6.10
Tianjin	2.01	27.00	0.91	4.32	4.40	19.00	0.64	2.74
Sichuan	2.46	18.50	0.67	2.78	8.88	29.00	0.35	1.75
Chongqing	1.57	8.50	0.65	2.00
Guizhou	3.10	15.00	0.32	1.27	13.92	69.00	0.74	4.55
Yunnan	2.03	23.00	0.89	3.82	8.45	30.00	0.79	4.10
Guangxi	1.86	26.00	0.96	4.37	5.96	23.00	0.58	2.63
Guangdong	2.98	19.00	0.78	3.35	13.23	63.00	0.79	4.70
Hainan	2.20	28.00	0.85	3.62	12.01	61.00	0.81	5.24
Altitude
Low altitude	2.07	19.00	0.74	3.04	10.24	49.00	0.79	4.55
Middle altitude	1.93	20.50	0.77	3.18	12.92	64.00	0.71	4.17
Sub-high altitude	1.27	6.00	0.59	1.45	16.37	65.00	0.71	4.27
High altitude	1.24	16.00	0.92	3.68
Temperature zone
Plateau temperate zone	1.38	6.00	0.67	1.34	9.07	37.00	0.50	3.04
Temperate zone	2.03	12.00	0.63	2.01	20.11	87.00	0.73	4.52
Warm temperate zone	1.83	14.00	0.56	1.96	22.17	125.00	0.81	5.42
North subtropical zone	1.90	15.00	0.62	2.40	22.27	141.00	0.73	5.25
Mid-subtropical zone	1.91	17.50	0.69	2.50	11.26	50.50	0.70	3.92
South subtropical zone	2.26	24.00	0.93	4.11	8.45	27.00	0.79	3.29
Marginal tropical zone	2.00	25.00	0.86	3.52	6.06	29.00	0.79	4.16
Tropical zone	2.13	23.00	0.95	4.19	11.02	55.00	0.85	4.90