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Table 2 Bacterial α-diversity and Good’s coverage estimator for different fertilization strategies

From: Effect of long-term fertilization strategies on bacterial community composition in a 35-year field experiment of Chinese Mollisols

Fertilization strategy

CHAO1

Ace

Simpson

Shannon

Coverage

CK

3231.9 ± 133.0b

3347.9 ± 149.0a

0.0076 ± 0.0007a

6.3 ± 0.03b

0.95 ± 0.006a

PK

3262.7 ± 154.8b

3386.1 ± 256.1a

0.0076 ± 0.0012a

6.3 ± 0.05b

0.96 ± 0.007a

NPK

2866.6 ± 63.3a

3328.8 ± 414.7a

0.0115 ± 0.0009b

6.0 ± 0.02a

0.95 ± 0.006a

MPK

3421.6 ± 94.3b

3541.9 ± 98.8a

0.0077 ± 0.0005a

6.3 ± 0.03b

0.96 ± 0.001a

  1. Values are mean ± standard deviation (n = 6). Values within the same column followed by different lowercase letters indicate significant differences according to Tukey’s multiple comparison tests. Operational taxonomic units defined based on a 97% similarity threshold