… understanding of microbial community assembly and of metabolic function in the top layers of
SSFs… Shannon and Chao 1, while no clear differences were found regarding the evenness. …

… Bio-slow sand filters (BSSFs) are widely … of particle size, filter thickness, water quality and
filtration rate on decontamination performance, bacterial community and metabolic function of …

… compared the total and active microbial community composition of ten full-scale slow sand
… Regarding the combination of richness and evenness as expressed by the Shannon index, …

… to the non-inoculated filter. Additionally, this study … of a functional microbial community in
the inoculated filter was due to the persistence of the inoculum community, or the recruitment of …

… Other studies also reported differences between bacterial communities in the raw water (not …
Based on the alpha diversity indices (Shannon and Evenness) and number of OTUs, the …

… relationship between the bacterial community structure and the water quality [25,26]. Additionally,
a lack of understanding of the micro-ecological function of … to community evenness and …

… of the filter and the analysis of microbial community response to the invasion of E. coli. …
Diversity, richness, evenness and coverage indices of bacterial 16S rRNA gene libraries …

… , biofilm characteristics and microbial populations during the start-up of SSFs. Findings from
… system had characteristics of high abundance and biological evenness and low diversity. …

… lengthy or short, depending on filter age and maturity of microbial communities on sand [9]. …
, rapid sand filtration with powdered activated carbon dosing and slow sand filtration before …

… A canonical correlation analysis of the microbial communities … A simple schematic of sand
filter used in this study is illustrated in … both high species richness and evenness (Fig. S2). …