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Daphnia hyalina is a cladoceran present throughthe whole year except for late summer in Maranhão,a meso-eutrophic reservoir in central Portugal. Apartfrom the influence of food, both vertebrate andinvertebrate predation pressures seem to have aneffect on D. hyalina population dynamics.Enclosure experiments were designed to assess therelative importance of both types of predation. Afterthe summer crash, D. hyalina reached highernumbers in the fishless enclosures than in the lakedespite of high predation pressure upon juveniles byAcanthocyclops robustus. Fish predation upon thelargest individuals, especially large egg bearingfemales, was responsible for the lower fertility ofthe open water population when compared with theenclosure population. In the enclosures an increase intail spine length was observed. The longer tail spineprobably offered protection from copepod predation,allowing at least some of the juveniles to coexistwith their potential predator and reach the adultstage, less susceptible to copepod predation.
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Caramujo, MJ., Crispim, M.C. & Boavida, MJ. Assessment of the importance of fish predation versus copepod predation on life history traits of Daphnia hyalina. Hydrobiologia 360, 243–252 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003171828299
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