Are they still viable? Physical conditions and abundance of Daphnia pulicaria resting eggs in sediment cores from lakes in the Tatra Mountains

Abstract

All species of Daphnia (Cladocera) produce, at some stage in their life cycle, diapausing eggs, which can remain viable for decades or centuries forming a "seed bank" in lake sediments.

Keywords

• Daphnia
• resting eggs
• microsatellite markers
• alpine lakes
• High Tatra Mountains
• Slovakia
• Poland
• PLANKTIVOROUS FISH
• ANCIENT DNA
• SLOVAKIA
• ALPINE
• MICROCRUSTACEAN
• ACIDIFICATION
• ZOOPLANKTON
• BANK