Measuring Daphnia life history in the wild: The efficacy of individual field cages

• Published in: Ecology and evolution Vol. 11; no. 23; pp. 16927 - 16935
• Main Authors: O’Connor, Michael, Sadler, Daniel E., Brunner, Franziska S., Reynolds, Alan, White, Nicola, Price, Stephen, Plaistow, Stewart J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.12.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Age; Algae; Animals; Cages; Daphnia; Design; Evolution; Evolutionary biology; Experiments; field cage; field experiment; Food; Food resources; Free flow; Laboratories; Life history; Life history studies; multivariate phenotype; Nutrition; Organisms; Realism; field cage; Daphnia; field experiment; multivariate phenotype; life history

Life‐history studies are often conducted in a laboratory environment where it is easy to assay individual animals. However, factors such as temperature, photoperiod, and nutrition vary greatly between laboratory and field environments, making it difficult to compare results. Consequently, there is a...