Effects of warming and oomycete parasite (Saprolegnia) on Lake Baikal copepod (Epischurella baikalensis): results from experiments, long term monitoring and modeling

This collection contains data related to parasite infection of the endemic Lake Baikal zooplankton Epischurella baikalensis. The data comes from laboratory experiments, long-term monitoring records, and population modeling. Included are data on the growth of Saprolegnia colonies on agar; survival and reproduction rates of Epischurella baikalensis under varying temperature conditions and exposure to Saprolegnia; zooplankton abundance and Saprolegnia presence from 1951 to 2003 in long-term monitoring data; and inputs and outputs from population modeling simulations. Results from analyzing this data can be found in 'Hot and sick: impacts of warming and oomycete parasite infection on endemic dominant zooplankter of Lake Baikal' (https://doi.org/10.1101/711655). Funding: NSF DEB-1136637, DEB-1136657. The long-term Lake Baikal data are part of a data sets No. 2005620028 and No. 2014621482 registered with the government of the Russian Federation. E.V. Pislegina, E.A. Silow and M.A. Timofeyev were supported by a Ministry of Higher Education and Research of Russian Federation award #6.1387.2017 and by funding from the Lake Baikal Foundation (https://baikalfoundation.ru/project/tochka-1/).