Regarding bacteria, the similarity between both communities, i.e. patio #1 and #2, became higher as fermentation went on from the initial to the final fermentation stages. Values obtained for Jaccard’s coefficient were always lower than those for Whittaker’s index, indicating that species shared by both patios were also the most abundant. Thiswas supported by the
fact that the species L. pentosus actually dominated all along the fermentation in both patios (Table 3 and Fig. 1).