Similar relationships between the reproductive
peaks and months with the highest
temperature and rainfall were also observed
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for other freshwater caridean species in other
regions of Brazil (Carvalho et al. 1979, Valenti
et al. 1986, Mossolin and Bueno 2002), thus
demonstrating a certain general pattern for this
group of crustaceans. In the population studied, a
relationship between reproductive peaks and high
rainfall indices was not clearly observed. If on 1