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Baludo, Marjohn
Marjohn
Baludo
0009-0008-2783-1468
University of Konstanz
Straile, Dietmar
Dietmar
Straile
0000-0002-7441-8552
University of Konstanz
Allometric growth patterns and phenotypic plasticity in two Bosmina species exposed to invertebrate predator kairomones
University of Konstanz
2023
2025
Environmental Science and Ecology
invertebrate predation
Bosmina
defense strategies
Bythotrephes
Leptodora
Open Access
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Baludo, Marjohn
0009-0008-2783-1468
Straile, Dietmar
0000-0002-7441-8552
Phenotypic plasticity is a key mechanism by which prey organisms adapt to variable predation risk. However, the specificity of these responses to different predators remains an important area of research. Here, we present a dataset from a common garden experiment designed to investigate morphological plasticity in two co-occurring zooplankton species, Bosmina coregoni and Bosmina longirostris, from Lake Constance. Replicated clones of both species were exposed to chemical cues (kairomones) from two distinct invertebrate predators, Bythotrephes longimanus and Leptodora kindtii, as well as a predator-free control. The resulting dataset comprises 236 individual observations, with measurements of key defensive traits (body size, antennule size, mucro size, eye diameter), reproductive output (clutch size), and essential metadata (species, clone, age, life stage, treatment). This resource provides a powerful tool for analyzing how predator identity and species-specific life histories interact to shape the expression of induced defenses in freshwater zooplankton.
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en
10.1007/s10750-026-06146-7
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
https://ror.org/018mejw64
298726046/GRK8872
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