Table 2 The abundance of bacterial and fungal proteins, diversity indexes and ratios between microbial proteins and energy proteins.

From: Soil restoration with organic amendments: linking cellular functionality and ecosystem processes

 

Control

Soil + Sludge

Soil + Compost

Mean

Std 7

Mean

Std

Mean

Std

Bacteria (%)

88.02 a

1.44

95.45 b

1.89

95.38 b

1.87

Fungi (%)

11.98 b

1.40

4.55 a

1.37

4.62 a

1.15

Ascomycota (%)

93.73 b

0.81

85.72 a

1.90

95.95 b

7.02

Basidiomycota (%)

6.27 b

0.85

14.28 c

0.78

4.05 a

0.47

Fungi/Bacteria

0.14 b

0.02

0.05 a

0.01

0.05 a

0.02

Shannon-B1

1.85 c

0.01

1.77 b

0.03

1.62 a

0.02

Simpson-B2

4.01 c

0.08

3.56 b

0.07

3.11 a

0.13

Shannon-F3

2.32 c

0,07

1.59 b

0.07

1.86 a

0.12

Simpson-F4

6.98 b

1.09

3.62 a

0.47

4.38 a

0.87

BG-En5

9.60 a

0.75

9.03 a

0.76

11.78 b

1.37

FG-En6

7.14 a

0.99

13.93 b

3.42

10.58 b

2.33

  1. 1The Shannon index of bacterial diversity.
  2. 2The Simpson index of bacterial diversity.
  3. 3The Shannon index of fungal diversity.
  4. 4The Simpson index of fungal diversity.
  5. 5Ratio between the total bacterial proteins and bacterial proteins involved in energy production.
  6. 6Ratio between the total fungal proteins and fungal proteins involved in energy production.
  7. 7Standard deviation of the mean. Data followed by the same letter are not significantly different according to the Tukey post-hoc test (HSD, P < 0.05).
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