The limits of stress-tolerance for zooplankton resting stages in freshwater ponds.

ABSTRACT: In seasonal environments, many organisms evolve strategies such as diapause to survive stressful periods. Understanding the link between habitat stability and diapause strategy can help predict a population's survival in a changing world. Indeed, resting stages may be an important way freshwater organisms can survive periods of drought or freezing, and as the frequency and extent of drought or freezing vary strongly among habitats and are predicted to change with climate change, it raises questions about how organisms cope with, and survive, environmental stress. Using Daphnia magna as a model system, we tested the ability of resting stages from different populations to cope with stress during diapause. The combination of elevated temperatures and wet conditions during diapause shows to pr

SUBMITTER: Santos JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10684647 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature