Supplemental Table 5

Values of richness estimation (underlined) obtained using Chao and Jackknife algorithms on morphotypes (MT) and sequence variants (SV). The richness is estimated for each phylum and for the total sampled area. Actual richness identified with each method is shown for a direct comparison. Species were estimated using both the focal phyla (SV) and whole meiofauna dataset (SV2). “*” indicates phyla which richness estimated using metabarcoding is lower than number of actual morphotypes identified with morphological taxonomy.