Data from: Plasticity rates and capacities differ across traits and temperatures: Insights from physiological responses of aquatic organisms to salinity change

Phenotypic plasticity allows organisms to track changing trait optima
under environmental variation. To what extent this is achieved will be
jointly determined by the rate of and the capacity for plasticity. Despite
the potential fitness implications of these two components of phenotypic
plasticity, a quantitative understanding of their variance across trait
types and environmental conditions is lacking. Here we address this
knowledge gap by compiling data from previously published time-course
experiments that describe how a range of physiological traits of aquatic
ectotherms change in response to a shift in salinity. We then build upon
recent analytical advances to produce estimates of plasticity rate and
capacity from each experiment that are comparable across traits. A total
of 324 estimates of plasticity rate and capacity originating from 59
species of fishes, sharks and crustaceans are given. The traits include
histology, hormone concentrations, metabolite concentrations and metabolic
and osmoregulatory enzyme activity.