Correlation of Soil Physiochemical Properties, Microorganism Numbers, and Bacterial Communities Following Unburned and Burned Sugarcane Harvest

Table 2

Soil bacterial diversity indices and richness estimates of unburned and burned sugarcane harvest determined using Illumina MiSeq sequencing analysis.

Diversity index	Unburned	Burned	F test
Ace	335.23 ± 4.33	226.80 ± 5.20
Chao 1	336.21 ± 6.94	226.88 ± 7.32
Shannon	7.04 ± 0.06	4.53 ± 0.08
Simpson	0.986 ± 0.002	0.664 ± 0.003
Good’s coverage	1.000 ± 0.001	0.999 ± 0.001	ns

Data presented as mean ± standard deviation, n:  3, , and ns:  not significant.