“…Ingestion rates expressed in units of cells per Epischura hr −1 were obtained by multiplying clearance rates by mean prey densities during experiments, and ingestion rates were compared among prey categories using one‐way ANOVA and Tukey post hoc tests. Epischura ingestion rates for each prey taxon were also expressed in units of carbon derived from cell densities and cell volumes of diatoms ( Synedra acus = 978 μm 3 , Kremer, Gillette, Rudstam, Brettum, & Ptacnik, ; Lindavia minuta = 482 μm 3 , equation in Hillebrand, Durselen, Kirschtel, Pollingher, & Zohary, ) and ciliates ( Limnostrombidium viride , large form = 39,250 μm 3 , Obolkina, ) as well as published conversion factors (diatoms = 0.2 pg C/μm 3 , Rocha & Duncan, ; ciliates = 0.19 pg C/μm 3 , Putt & Stoecker, ). Limnostrombidium viride , large form (50–60 × 50 μm), was the most common ciliate in our experimental bags, and this form is typical in Lake Baikal during summer (Obolkina, ).…”