Table 1 Comparison of α-diversity indices in TPP and VEE soil samples.

From: Effects of long-term integrated agri-aquaculture on the soil fungal community structure and function in vegetable fields

Sample ID

TPP10

TPP13

TPP16

VEE13

VEE16

Rate

Reads

43,510 ± 180.31a

34,390 ± 714.18c

39,150 ± 2004.65abc

37,060 ± 1309.56bc

41,640 ± 3867.87ab

–

OTUs

145 ± 11.59d

273 ± 7.00b

198 ± 26.58c

274 ± 5.03b

318 ± 16.26a

56.94

Chao

150 ± 11.37d

291 ± 10.79b

242 ± 27.84c

290 ± 0.00b

338 ± 11.14a

33.81

Coverage

0.9998 ± 0.0001a

0.9990 ± 0.0005bc

0.9986 ± 0.0001c

0.9992 ± 0.0002b

0.9990 ± 0.0001bc

32.50

Shannon

2.04 ± 0.1626a

2.92 ± 0.0141a

2.14 ± 0.0354a

3.23 ± 0.1202a

2.53 ± 0.0707a

21.86

Simpson

0.39 ± 0.4842a

0.13 ± 0.0057a

0.23 ± 0.0113a

0.10 ± 0.0078a

0.21 ± 0.0095a

 − 11.67

  1. “Rate” refers to the growth rate of VEE16 over TPP16.
  2. Means followed by the same letter a, b or c indicates there is no significant difference among the treatments at p < 0.05 (n = 3), Number after “+/−” represents the standard deviation. TPP means a traditional planting pattern while VEE means a vegetable–eel–earthworm integrated planting and breeding platform.
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