Richness and diversity of soil microbial communities below decomposing cadavers.

<p>A. Chao1 richness estimate, and B. Inverse of the Simpson diversity index, both calculated on libraries of equal size (121,340 sequences). Gut samples were also included for comparison. Mean and standard deviation of n = 4 cadavers are presented for each stage; means with the same letter are not significantly different (p < 0.05, mixed model ANOVA, Tukey-Kramer post-hoc). The light grey bar is the mean and standard deviation of the control (no cadaver) soil libraries throughout the duration of the study (n = 8).