Research Article

Temporal Succession of Phytoplankton Assemblages in a Tidal Creek System of the Sundarbans Mangroves: An Integrated Approach

Table 4

Total number of clones sequenced, OTU distributions, diversity and richness estimates for all the rbcL clone libraries from April 2010, December 2010 and March 2011 of Stn2.

Clone LibraryNumber of rbcL sequencesOTU (>3%)Shannon-Wiener Index (H)Chao (average)Abundance coverage estimator (ACE)

Total rbcL sequences52202.3435.641.2727
April_20101081.9732944.8148
December_20101281.97911.3314.0482
March_20113071.4748.512.449