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Table 3. Average (± standard error) <strong>of</strong> δ 13 C (‰) values for consumers and organic matter in the<br />
control and manipulation reaches post-litter addition in Bluff River Cave. Percent <strong>of</strong> consumer<br />
biomass composed <strong>of</strong> carbon from the amended corn litter as estimated from a standard linear<br />
mixing model (two-source, single-isotope). FPOM = fine particulate organic matter (≥250 to 500<br />
µm). CPOM: C3 plants = coarse particulate organic matter (≥500 µm) that is only <strong>of</strong> C3 plant<br />
origin.<br />
Control Manipulation<br />
% carbon<br />
from corn litter<br />
C. tenebrosus -21 (1) -17 (0.7) 16<br />
Eurycea sp. -25 (0.2) -16 (0.8) 56<br />
Caecidotea -25 (0.2) -17 (1.1) 50<br />
Ephemeroptera -25 (0.6) -13 (0.3) 73<br />
Plecoptera -25 (0.3) -19 (1.6) 36<br />
Chironomidae: Non-Tanypodinae -27 (0.3) -15 (0.4) 70<br />
Chironomidae: Tanypodinae -26 (0.3) -15 (0.7) 61<br />
Oligochaeta -26 (0.2) -17 (0.7) 48<br />
Wood -27 (0.3) -27 (0.3)<br />
FPOM -27 (0.2) -25 (0.8)<br />
CPOM: C3 plants -29 (0.2) -28 (0.3)<br />
Corn litter -11 (0.1)<br />
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