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Table 3 Diversity of soil bacterial communities detected in 16S rRNA gene clone librariesa

From: Elevation gradient of soil bacterial communities in bamboo plantations

Measure of diversity

Elevation (m)

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1800

No. of sequences

169

173

182

151

163

159

No. of OTUs

89

73

94

80

79

59

Shannonb

4.29

3.93

4.27

4.07

4.08

3.82

Chao 1

132

112

151

134

124

80

95 % Chao 1

110–179

90–162

123–209

106–192

100–176

67–117

  1. aCalculations were based on operational taxonomic units (OTUs) with 97 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity
  2. bShannon diversity index (H)