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Table 3 Mean Shannon diversity, richness, Pielou’s evenness and Bray–Curtis dissimilarity values for microbial communities by enrichment times

From: Preservation of microbial communities enriched on lignocellulose under thermophilic and high-solid conditions

 

Shannon diversity

Richness

Evenness

Bray–Curtis dissimilarity comparisons to T1

T0

4.20

790

0.63

0.87

T1

3.18 A

268 A

0.57 A

0

T2

3.06 A

192 B

0.58 A,B

0.22 A

T3

3.02 A

160 C

0.59 A,B

0.26 A,B

T4

3.07

154

0.61

0.33

T5

3.07 A

156 C

0.61 B

0.32 B

T6

3.11 A

155 C

0.62 B

0.33 B

  1. Means followed by the same letter within columns are not statistically different at α = 0.05 based on Tukey–Kramer HSD test, blocked by reactor. Time point 4 was excluded from the statistical analysis due to insufficient DNA in one sample. T0 included only one sample