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Limnol. Oceanogr., 30(5), 1985, 1060-1066 0 1985, by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Inc. Secondary production of the harpacticoid copepod Paronychocamptus nanus in a brackish-water habitat Peter M. J. Herman and Carlo Heipl Marine Biology Section, Zoology Institute, State University of Gent, Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Abstract The secondary production of the harpacticoid copepod Paronychocamptus nanus (Sars, 1908) in a shallow, brackish-water pond was estimated during spring and summer 1980. The population was sampled every 5 d. Production of copepodites and adults, calculated by the size-frequency method, amounts to 1.91 g m-z dry wt over the sampling period (March-November). Egg pro- duction is 1.23 g m-2; naupliar production is roughly 1.09 g m-2. The production efficiency (ratio of production to production plus respiration) of copepodites and adults is 0.37; for the total population it is 0.42. P : B of the population is 24.45 over the sampling period, or 3.2 per generation. Warwick (1984) advocated a biological This paper is part of a series of studies of definition of the group of small benthic the energy flow through the dominant metazoans called meiobenthos. Conven- meiobenthic crustaceans in a shallow, tionally, the meiobenthos is defined in brackish-water pond. This community was methodological terms and roughly covers monitored at 2-week intervals for 7 years metazoans that pass through a l-mm sieve, (1969-l 976) (Herman