Table 1 Values for richness, diversity and evenness indices.

From: Community composition and functional prediction of prokaryotes associated with sympatric sponge species of southwestern Atlantic coast

Samples (index ± standard deviation (SD))

Ac

Ax

Dr

SW

SD

Sobs ± SD

2763.2 ± 101.11

2331.8 ± 224.69

2312.8 ± 619.24

2848.4 ± 76.41

10,886.6 ± 189.5

Chao ± SD

5106.27 ± 221.91

4200.5 ± 442.6

3822.98 ± 341.84

6158.08 ± 326.54

17,048.26 ± 345.12

ACE ± SD

5710.87 ± 349.0

4457.02 ± 511.94

4175.33 ± 183.33

6952.41 ± 399.28

18,513.73 ± 462.99

Shannon ± SD

4.68 ± 0.021

3.85 ± 0.332

4.95 ± 0.67

3.54 ± 0.076

7.46 ± 0.032

Inverse Simpson ± SD

0.96 ± 0.003

0.87 ± 0.037

0.96 ± 0.033

0.86 ± 0.007

0.99 ± 0.00024

Pielou´s evenness ± SD

0.60 ± 0.005

0.50 ± 0.04

0.64 ± 0.07

0.44 ± 0.008

0.80 ± 0.002

  1. Ac: Aplysina caissara, Ax: Axinella corrugata, Dr: Dragmacidon reticulatum, SW: seawater, SD: sediment, Sobs: estimated richness.