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Table 4 Community richness and community diversity indices analyzed based on type of land use

From: Marine bacterial communities in the upper gulf of Thailand assessed by Illumina next-generation sequencing platform

Type of land use

Community richness

Community diversity

Chao1

ACE

Shannon

Simpson

Mangrove forests

1705.90 ± 184.77ab**

1768.60 ± 197.76ab

7.19 ± 0.15a

0.97 ± 0.00a

Tourist site

1534.10 ± 121.39a

1600.37 ± 126.66a

7.10 ± 0.27a

0.97 ± 0.00a

Aquaculture site

1739.97 ± 199.51b

1856.22 ± 217.73b

7.61 ± 0.19b

0.98 ± 0.00b

p-value*** (between groups)

0.01

0.02

0.00

0.01

  1. *Values are the means of three samplings from each location± standard deviations
  2. **Values with the same letters within a column are not significantly different according to Tukey’s test
  3. ***p-values < 0.05 are considered significant