Metagenomics Shows That Termite Activities Influence the Diversity and Composition of Soil Invertebrates in Termite Mound Soils

Table 2

Assessment of soil invertebrate diversity and evenness of the soil samples.

Indices	T1a	T1b	T1c	T1d	T2a	T2b	T2c	T2d	S1a	S1b	S1c	S1d	S2a	S2b	S2c	S2d	-value
Shannon	0.9461	1.162	0.9518	0.9585	0.1113	0.4235	0.1961	0.229	0.9203	0.9995	1.07	0.9539	1.001	0.9725	0.9498	1.088
Evenness	0.5151	0.6391	0.5181	0.4346	0.1863	0.2545	0.2433	0.2096	0.502	0.4528	0.4859	0.5192	0.4533	0.4408	0.4309	0.4948

T1a–d and T2a–d mean termite mounds from Braklaagte and Zeerust, respectively, while S1a–d and S2a–d mean adjacent soils from Braklaagte and Zeerust, respectively.