Appendix A. Intrinsic rate of population increase per day (R, mean ± SD) and generation times in days (G, mean ± SD) of ciliate and meiofaunal species (given with their mean body weight, M, mgC / ind.) from the Lone Oak stream and the Pant stream, grown in laboratory cultures at 15 °C. Intrinsic rate of population increase and generation time were calculated for each culture and the standard deviation indicates differences between cultures (N = number of cultures).
Taxa |
Species |
Stream |
M |
R |
G |
Cultures |
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Ciliata |
Paramecium caudatum (Ehrb.) |
Pant |
0.040 |
0.10 |
± |
0.01 |
6 |
± |
1 |
2 |
|
Paramecium putrinum Claparede&Lachmann |
Pant |
0.007 |
0.12 |
± |
0.01 |
5 |
± |
1 |
2 |
Turbellaria |
Stenostomum leucops (Ant. Duges) |
Lone Oak |
0.055 |
0.08 |
± |
0.03 |
17 |
± |
3 |
6 |
Nematoda |
Monhystera stagnalis Bastian |
Lone Oak |
0.065 |
0.03 |
± |
n.a. |
23 |
± |
n.a. |
1 |
Rotifera |
Cephalodella gibba (Ehrb.) |
Lone Oak |
0.017 |
0.07 |
± |
0.06 |
16 |
± |
14 |
4 |
|
Cephalodella apocolea Myers |
Lone Oak |
0.023 |
0.04 |
± |
0.02 |
20 |
± |
9 |
6 |
|
Colurella obtusa (Gosse) |
Lone Oak |
0.008 |
0.06 |
± |
0.04 |
15 |
± |
9 |
6 |
Oligochaeta/Naididae |
Chaetogaster diastrophus (Gruithuisen) |
Lone Oak |
0.114 |
0.04 |
± |
0.04 |
36 |
± |
24 |
6 |
|
Chaetogaster diastrophus (Gruithuisen) |
Pant |
0.114 |
0.06 |
± |
0.02 |
12 |
± |
4 |
4 |
|
Aelosoma hemprichi Ehrb. |
Lone Oak |
0.609 |
0.02 |
± |
0.01 |
41 |
± |
13 |
6 |
Crustacea/Cladocera |
Alonella nana (Baird) |
Lone Oak |
0.528 |
0.03 |
± |
0.01 |
30 |
± |
5 |
2 |
Crustacea/Harpacticoida |
Bryocamptus echinatus Mrazek |
Pant |
0.443 |
|
n.a. |
75 |
± |
0 |
3 |
|
Crustacea/Ostracoda |
Ostracoda sp. |
Lone Oak |
2.288 |
|
n.a. |
73 |
± |
0 |
2 |
|