Colonization patterns of soil microbial communities in the Atacama Desert

Microbiome

Table 3 Observed richness and diversity indices for soil samples based on 16S rRNA gene sequence assignments with a 97% sequence similarity threshold, rarefied to 1,000 sequence reads ( n = 48)

Samples	OTU_0.03observed richness	Shannon index estimated diversity	Faith’s phylogenetic diversity index	Chao 1 diversity estimate	Pielou’s evenness index
KEV	69	2.6	3.1	134	0.42
BEA	99	4.3	5.7	157	0.64
AND	83	3.8	5.3	164	0.59
AC	163	5.9	9.6	244	0.80
AL	330	7.5	15.9	508	0.89
CH	282	7.0	14.5	396	0.85

Analysis using datasets of equal size subsampled at 1,000 sequence reads; average of 10 iterations.
OTU, operational taxonomic units.

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