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Vol. 40, No. 3
Aspects of Diversity Measurement for Microbial Communities AARON L. MILLS* AND RAYMOND A. WASSEL
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
A useful measure of diversity was calculated for microbial communities collected from lake water and sediment samples using the Shannon index (H') and rarefaction [E(S)]. Isolates were clustered by a numerical taxonomy approach in which limited (
