Table 7.
Microbial diversity indices for the bacterial communities in the ruminal fluids and feces of Holstein cows fed the 3 diets.
| Item | Treatments 1 | SEM | P -value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0IHEEB | 6IHEEB | 11IHEEB | Linear | Quadratic | ||
| Ruminal fluid | ||||||
| OTU2 | 464.7 | 456.2 | 463.2 | 51.3 | 0.98 | 0.88 |
| Coverage | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.99 | 0.00002 | 0.55 | 0.10 |
| Shannon index | 7.73 | 7.77 | 7.78 | 0.38 | 0.93 | 0.98 |
| Simpson index | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.006 | 0.97 | 0.99 |
| Ace index | 465.3 | 456.5 | 464.0 | 51.4 | 0.98 | 0.88 |
| Chao index | 466.0 | 456.4 | 464.6 | 51.5 | 0.98 | 0.87 |
| Faces | ||||||
| OTU | 523.0 | 526.7 | 527.8 | 23.6 | 0.82 | 0.95 |
| Coverage | 1.00 | 0.99 | 1.00 | 0.00002 | 0.99 | 0.03 |
| Shannon index | 8.20 | 8.28 | 8.29 | 0.14 | 0.39 | 0.67 |
| Simpson index | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.001 | 0.15 | 0.46 |
| Ace index | 523.7 | 528.6 | 528.8 | 23.8 | 0.82 | 0.90 |
| Chao index | 523.8 | 531.2 | 532.4 | 24.9 | 0.70 | 0.87 |
10IHEEB = 0% of DM industrial hemp ethanol extraction byproduct; 6IHEEB = 6.0% of DM industrial hemp ethanol extraction byproduct; 11IHEEB = 10.8% of DM industrial hemp ethanol extraction byproduct.
2OTU, operational taxonomic unit.