Figure 6

Temporal changes in clonal diversity, calculated as clonal richness R (solid line) or as the inverse Simpson index (dashed line) for (a) D. galeata from FASA, (b) D. galeata from LERC and (c) D. longispina from WALD (only in these three lakes were Daphnia communities present throughout the entire sampling season, i.e. from April to November 2011, and the sample size per analysed population ≥ 30). The upper/lower equation shows the results of linear regression analyses between time and clonal richness/inverse of the Simpson index, respectively. Missing data indicate a month when too few animals were available to calculate genetic indices of clonal diversity. The genetic indices were calculated based on variation at all 15 microsatellite loci (or 14 loci, if Daphnia could not be amplified at locus SwiD2).