Research Article

Community Structure and Abundance of Archaea in a Zostera marina Meadow: A Comparison between Seagrass-Colonized and Bare Sediment Sites

Table 1

Comparison of alpha diversity estimators () of the whole archaeal community in the vegetated and unvegetated sediments ().

Diversity indexVegetatedUnvegetated

OTU richness0.36
Shannon0.86
Simpson0.51
Chao10.08