“…We hypothesized that such environmental conditions should (1) favor hatching strategies of zooplankton dormant stages corresponding to the predictions of bet-hedging theory (i.e., the spread of hatchlings over sequential hydrations) (Pinceel et al, 2017(Pinceel et al, , 2021. However, because hatching requirements and the sensitivity to hydration cues vary among zooplankton taxa (e.g., microcrustaceans and Rotifera) (García-Roger et al, 2006;Gilbert, 2017;Iglesias et al, 2016;Vendramin et al, 2022Vendramin et al, , 2023, we also predicted that (2) the environmental conditions would favor bet-hedging over non-bet-hedging taxa in the egg bank, and that bet-hedging should result in higher fitness (i.e., more progeny) for populations of bet-hedging than non-bet-hedging strategists.…”