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Table 1 Filament thicknesses (for each treatment, n  = 210 measurements) and biomasses of Aphanizomenon and Cylindrospermopsis used for the experiments

From: Thicker filaments of Aphanizomenon gracile are more harmful to Daphnia than thinner Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

Treatment

Thickness of filaments (μm)

Biomass of filaments (mg chl a/L)

Controls without cyanobacteria

  

  No-Aph

-

0

  No-Cyl

-

0

Aphanizomenon gracile

  

  Low-Aph

2.12 ± 0.44

0.07 ± 0.01

  High-Aph

2.24 ± 0.53

0.27 ± 0.03

Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii

  

  Low-Cyl

1.62 ± 0.13

0.08 ± 0.01

  High-Cyl

1.57 ± 0.14

0.26 ± 0.003

  1. Values are given as the means ± standard deviations.