ŠUPINA, Jan, Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ and David S. BOUKAL. Influence of food availability, predation risk and initial body size on growth and maturation of Cloeon dipterum (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae). Online. In Macadam, CR Stockan, JA. PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOINT MEETING OF THE XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EPHEMEROPTERA AND XVIII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PLECOPTERA. AUCKLAND: MAGNOLIA PRESS, 2016, p. 53-64. ISBN 978-1-77670-022-6. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.11.1.9.
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Original name Influence of food availability, predation risk and initial body size on growth and maturation of Cloeon dipterum (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae)
Authors ŠUPINA, Jan (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and David S. BOUKAL (203 Czech Republic).
Edition AUCKLAND, PROCEEDINGS OF THE JOINT MEETING OF THE XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EPHEMEROPTERA AND XVIII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PLECOPTERA, p. 53-64, 12 pp. 2016.
Publisher MAGNOLIA PRESS
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher New Zealand
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/16:00107139
Organization unit Faculty of Science
ISBN 978-1-77670-022-6
ISSN 1178-9913
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.11.1.9
UT WoS 000442068700004
Keywords in English predator-prey interactions; sublethal effects; body size; growth rate; maturation size; maturation age; variable number of instars; Aeshna
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Abstract
Larval growth and maturation in aquatic insects are phenotypically plastic and can change in response to the amount and quality of resources, or under predation risk. While better food conditions typically lead to faster growth and earlier maturation at larger body size and hence higher fecundity, the effects of predation risk can vary depending on its strength and selectivity with respect to size or stage. Studies on lotic mayflies (Ephemeroptera) have reported two direct and two indirect life history responses to increased predation risk: slower growth rate and later maturation at the same or smaller size, and faster or unaltered growth rate and earlier maturation at smaller body size. However, life history responses of standing water mayflies to predation risk are unknown. To fill this gap, we carried out a full-factorial laboratory experiment to study the influence of food availability (full/reduced) and predation risk (present/absent predator cues) by dragonfly larvae on growth and maturation of larvae of the lentic mayfly Cloeon dipterum. Males and females responded similarly to food limitation and predation risk. Predation risk had no effect on maturation size, larval mortality and metamorphic failure. However, growth rate, number of moults and development time were all affected by predation risk, and its net effect was modified by food availability and initial body size of the larvae. These results suggest that life history responses to suboptimal conditions depend on body size at the onset of such conditions. Finally, a small group of larvae grew at much slower rates and developed much longer than other individuals of similar initial size, possibly due to bet-hedging or inclusion of multiple genotypes in the experiment.
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GA16-03881S, research and development projectName: Koexistence vodních bezobratlých na prameništních slatiništích: úloha abiotické heterogenity a biotických interakcí na regionální a lokální škále
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
MUNI/A/1484/2014, interní kód MUName: Analýzy diverzity biologických systémů různých úrovní a na různých škálách terestrického a akvatického prostředí (Acronym: BIDA4)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A
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