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Frank B. Dazzo<br />

Table 1. Quantitative data relevant to <strong>plant</strong> <strong>surface</strong> <strong>microbiology</strong> extracted from<br />

Fig. 10A by CMEIAS image analysis<br />

Measurement feature Type of analysis Value<br />

Number of cells Microbial abundance 138<br />

Avg. cell biovolume (mm 3 ) Microbial abundance 0.17<br />

Avg. cell biomass C (fg) Microbial abundance 34.66<br />

Avg. cell bio<strong>surface</strong> area (mm 2 ) Microbial abundance 1.72<br />

Cumulative bacterial biovolume (mm 3 ) Microbial abundance 23.91<br />

Cumulative bacterial biomass C (fg) Microbial abundance 4783.18<br />

Cumulative bacterial bio<strong>surface</strong> area (mm 2 ) Microbial abundance 237.86<br />

Cumulative area covered by bacteria (mm 2 ) Microbial abundance 60.25<br />

Avg. first nearest neighbor distance (mm) Plotless spatial 0.84±0.30<br />

distribution<br />

Avg. second nearest neighbor distance (mm) Plotless spatial 1.10±0.32<br />

Average aggregation (cluster) index (mm –1 ) Plotless spatial 1.31±0.38<br />

distribution<br />

Holgate’s A value of spatial randomness Plotless spatial 0.622<br />

distribution =clumped<br />

Significance value of Holgate’s A (p) Plotless spatial 0.001<br />

distribution<br />

Spatial density of bacteria (cells/mm 2 ) Plot-based spatial 427,245<br />

distribution<br />

Microbial cover (%) Plot-based spatial 18.7<br />

distribution<br />

Uncovered root <strong>surface</strong> area (%) Plot-based spatial 81.3<br />

distribution<br />

biology that were extracted from this same image, eight features that measure<br />

microbial abundance, and seven (four plot-less plus three plot-based) features<br />

that measure their spatial distribution. The Aggregation (Cluster) Index is a<br />

plot-less spatial distribution measurement feature that we have introduced,<br />

equal to the inverse of the first nearest neighbor distance (Dazzo et al. 2003).<br />

The Holgate’s method for plot-less spatial analysis is a statistical test for spatial<br />

randomness requiring that n random points be selected and that the distance<br />

to the two nearest individuals be measured. This method computes Holgate’s<br />

A, a measure of aggregation. Values of A are 0.5 for randomly spaced<br />

populations, >0.5 for clumped populations, and 0.5, their spatial distribution is clumped, and the Z-test for spatial<br />

randomness is rejected at the statistically significant level of 99.9 %. Definitive<br />

quantitative spatial distribution data acquired by computer-assisted microscopy!

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