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Table 2 Operational taxonomic unit (OTU) richness and diversity measures from Langaco Lake communities

From: Bacterial and archaeal communities within the alkaline soda Langaco Lake in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Sample-ID

Sequence reads

Richness and diversity metric

OTUs

Shannon index

ACE index

Chao1 index

Coverage

Simpson index

Bacteria

 L1

9377

1025

5.20

2148.23

1668.18

0.95

0.03

 L2

9424

1287

6.07

2359.52

1990.62

0.94

0.01

 L3

9356

1266

5.92

2243.30

1912.93

0.94

0.01

 L4

9354

1293

5.96

2376.17

1995.66

0.94

0.01

Archaea

 L1a

16,316

269

2.98

536.42

390.27

0.99

0.12

 L2a

16,465

221

3.16

417.63

336.62

0.99

0.09

 L3a

16,415

250

3.27

434.32

395.25

0.99

0.10

 L4a

16,403

268

3.30

497.65

418.19

0.99

0.09

  1. ACE abundance-based coverage estimator