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Table 3 Carbon and nitrogen isotope based niche metrics for abdomen head and wing of 17 individual insects

From: Dietary nutrient allocation to somatic tissue synthesis in emerging subimago freshwater mayfly Ephemera danica

Tissue

SEA

SEAc

TA

CVc

CVn

Abdomen

1.47

1.57

4.0

3.96

7.78

Head

0.84

0.89

2.3

2.84

4.75

Wing

0.47

0.51

1.2

1.26

6.70

  1. Shown are bayesian standard ellipse area (SEA%) and sample size corrected ellipse area (SEAc%), total area (TA%), coefficient of variation for carbon (CVc%) and nitrogen (CVn%) isotopes
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BMC Ecology

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