Table 1 Number of individuals and species of ants, springtails and termites (with BINs; traditional samples) and number of reads, reads in BINs, reads in OTUs and species (metabarcoding samples) recorded in samples grouped by location.
Location | Taxonomic samples | Metabarcoding samples | Reads in OTUsc | No. Spp | ||
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No. ind | No. Spp | Total readsa | Reads in BINsb | |||
ARM1 | 401 | 38 | 2,959,781 | 707,227 | 736,268 | 43 |
ARM2 | 441 | 40 | 3,253,108 | 646,202 | 1,073,925 | 41 |
ARM3 | 656 | 65 | 3,650,551 | 929,015 | 856,161 | 56 |
ARM4 | 774 | 57 | 3,337,128 | 135,814 | 1,397,542 | 42 |
BAL1 | 274 | 42 | 2,804,034 | 622,318 | 876,746 | 38 |
DRA1 | 344 | 39 | 2,623,464 | 345,515 | 934,815 | 42 |
WHE1 | 361 | 42 | 2,351,194 | 627,690 | 574,774 | 36 |
WHE2 | 63 | 24 | 2,424,845 | 813,851 | 660,620 | 49 |
ZET1 | 688 | 48 | 3,805,815 | 635,410 | 1,543,644 | 42 |
ZET2 | 845 | 58 | 3,252,451 | 725,566 | 1,118,475 | 32 |