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Few estimates of production of aquatic oligochaetes have been made. Those that have vary considerably in methodology, the units employed, the values obtained where these can be compared, and sometimes in the concept of production used. Laboratory studies on pure populations may be unreliable.
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Brinkhurst, R.O. (1980). The Production Biology of the Tubificidae (Oligochaeta). In: Brinkhurst, R.O., Cook, D.G. (eds) Aquatic Oligochaete Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3048-6_12
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