Table 3. Fungal ITS sequence richness and diversity of composted cattle manure according to time and sampling depth.

Treatmenta	Time	Depthb	Number of OTUs	Shannon	Chao1
CON	0	Top	142 ± 30b	2.28 ± 0.67	272 ± 90
CON C&D	0	Top	250 ± 57a	3.46 ± 0.88	425 ± 103
CON	14	Middle	237 ± 17ab	3.54 ± 0.16	379 ± 36
CON C&D	14	Middle	209 ± 34ab	3.06 ± 0.49	338 ± 50
CON	99	Middle	182 ± 40ab	2.79 ± 0.7	329 ± 58
CON C&D	99	Middle	166 ± 10ab	3.31 ± 0.23	283 ± 28

^a CON, manure from cattle on a control diet of barley; DDG, manure from cattle fed dried distillers grains and solubles; CON C&D, manure from the control diet cattle amended with construction and demolition waste. Mean ± standard deviation (n = 3) is shown for compost. Means with different lowercase letters are significantly different from one another (P<0.05).

^b Samples were taken at the top (7 cm) and middle (90 cm) of each compost bin.