Research Article
Life Cycle and Secondary Production of Four Species from Functional Feeding Groups in a Tropical Stream of South India
Table 4
Secondary production estimates (mean ± SE) for the four functional taxa using the size frequency method.
| Taxa | Density | Biomass | Production | P/B | (no. m−2 year−1) | (mg m−2 year−1) | (mg m−2 year−1) |
| L. nuburagangai | 720 ± 21 | 306 ± 11 | 1484 ± 21 | 4.8 | Baetis sp. | 1252 ± 28 | 514 ± 19 | 4264 ± 23 | 8.3 | C. alagarensis | 585 ± 13 | 185 ± 9 | 1555 ± 15 | 8.4 | N. biseriata | 231 ± 9 | 97 ± 5 | 864 ± 11 | 8.9 | F test | 3.649 ( = 0.111) | | | | Friedman test | 0.5294 ( = 0.004) | | | | Kruskal-Wallis test | 0.3371 ( = 0.017) | | | |
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