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Table 2 Estimations of true diversity of different samples.

From: Bacterial diversity at different stages of the composting process

 

Sample

Age (d)1

Number of sequences

Number of OTUs

ACE estimate

ACE coverage %

Chao1 estimate

Chao1 coverage %

Simpson's Reciprocal Index

Simpson's Index of Diversity

Full-scale process

FS1

0

28

23

79.58

28.90

83.17

27.66

2.17

0.54

 

FS2

1

135

46

97.76

47.06

91.56

50.24

23.55

0.96

 

FS3

2-3

47

24

103.72

23.14

52.90

45.37

7.40

0.86

 

FS4

7

50

26

79.66

32.64

66.50

39.10

7.61

0.87

 

FS5

1

69

37

217.00

17.05

262.00

14.12

5.37

0.81

 

FS7

0

47

43

252.63

17.02

233.13

18.45

1.45

0.31

 

FS8

21

118

60

148.23

40.48

160.00

37.50

8.70

0.89

 

FS9

1

81

33

86.18

38.29

77.10

42.80

14.66

0.93

 

FS10

2-3

38

31

119.31

25.98

143.67

21.58

2.14

0.53

 

FS11

12

23

8

12.00

66.67

12.00

66.67

36.14

0.97

Pilot-scale process

PS1

4

314

128

672.07

19.05

658.45

19.44

9.26

0.89

 

PS2

39

163

50

186.78

26.77

179.60

27.84

20.60

0.95

 

PS3

4

88

10

66.00

15.15

-

-

136.71

0.99

 

PS4

8

60

26

67.45

38.55

66.50

39.10

11.13

0.91

 

PS5

6

73

25

64.79

38.58

65.50

38.17

16.53

0.94

 

PS6

10

65

36

104.71

34.38

127.50

50.98

6.69

0.85

 

PS7

15

78

23

46.36

49.61

65.25

35.25

37.07

0.97

 

PS8

19

83

28

62.02

45.15

76.17

36.76

24.13

0.96

  1. 1 Time in days after loading of material into composting unit