Summary of taxonomy
There were 23 species, 32 genera, and 31 families belonging to 9 orders detected across ginger and native forest sites. Only 23.2% and 37.8% of ASVs returned a confident species or genus ID respectively. This was improved at the family-level; 61.6% of ASVs returned family IDs. 16s sequences returned the lowest matches at 91.58% pairwise identity on average. While returning the lowest ASVs and retained specimens, 18s had the highest matches at 98.27%; 28s was near with an average match of 97.72%. The low percent identity matches for many ASVs biased taxonomic results at species and genera level towards well-known taxa present in GenBank; because of this, family- and order-level were used along with ASV identity.