Research Article

Effect of Freeze-Thaw on a Midtemperate Soil Bacterial Community and the Correlation Network of Its Members

Table 2

Indices estimating the bacterial alpha-diversity of each treatment.

Frequency testAmplitude testSWC test
15TF6TF1TF15F9F3FCon10PF10PC30PF30PC

ACE3282 (251) a3264 (274) a3172 (159) abc3082 (259) abc2961 (221) bc3343 (144) a2910 (257) c3114 (138) abc3205 (174) ab3204 (36) ab3185 (143) abc
PD251 (18) a249 (20) a238 (11) ab206 (21) d217 (19) bcd231 (13) abc208 (17) d216 (12) cd226 (13) bcd211 (3) cd213 (10) cd

Values are given as the mean (SD), n=4.
ACE and PD indicate Abundance-based Coverage Estimator and Faith’s phylogenetic alpha-diversity, respectively.
Different letters indicate significant differences among all the treatments (Tukey’s HSD test, n=4) at P < 0.05.