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Natural populations are exposed to multiple stressors. These stressors may interact, leading to synergistic or antagonistic responses. In addition to these direct interaction effects, there may also be an interaction between stressors through a selection effect: as the population genetically responds to one stressor, it may become more vulnerable to another one, for instance because of an associated reduction in genetic variation. We here capitalized on a selection experiment involving the exposure of Daphnia populations to carbaryl pulses to test the hypothesis that selection imposed by this pesticide may increase vulnerability to fish predation in the resulting population. A direct predation experiment with individuals isolated from carbaryl-exposed and non-exposed populations revealed no effect of prior selection by carbaryl exposure on mortality due to stickleback predation.
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Mieke Jansen enjoys a PhD fellowship of the “Institute for the Promotion of Innovation through Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT-Vlaanderen)”. This research was financially supported by project FWO.0269.04, FWO.0185.09 and G 022909.09 of the Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders (FWO), project GOA/2008/06 of the KULeuven research fund and EU-IP project ALARM.
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Guest editors: M. Silva-Briano & S. S. S. Sarma / Biology of Cladocera (Crustacea): Proceedings of the VIII International Cladocera Symposium
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Jansen, M., Stoks, R., Coors, A. et al. No evidence for a cost of selection by carbaryl exposure in terms of vulnerability to fish predation in Daphnia magna . Hydrobiologia 643, 123–128 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0129-7
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