Table 1 Alpha-diversity for soil bacterial communities in the four different types of land use.

From: Different types of agricultural land use drive distinct soil bacterial communities

Land-use type

No. of OTUs

Coverage

Richness estimator

Diversity index

Chao-1

ACE

Shannon

Inverse-Simpson

Greenhouse (n = 211)

564 ± 80

0.60 ± 0.07

1529 ± 353b

2566 ± 692b

5.9 ± 0.3c

340 ± 183c

Orchard (n = 224)

581 ± 85

0.59 ± 0.08

1506 ± 366b

2374 ± 713c

6.0 ± 0.3b

403 ± 200b

Paddy (n = 209)

623 ± 49

0.54 ± 0.05

1778 ± 319a

3107 ± 855a

6.1 ± 0.2a

447 ± 157a

Upland (n = 209)

514 ± 80

0.66 ± 0.07

1172 ± 300c

1764 ± 585d

5.8 ± 0.3d

290 ± 147d

  1. The original dataset was sub-sampled to 1,002 reads.
  2. a–cThe letters in each column indicate significant differences (P < 0.05, Tukey’s HSD).
  3. OTUs operational taxonomic units.
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