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SUBMITTER: Smith TP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6851113 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smith Thomas P TP Thomas Thomas J H TJH García-Carreras Bernardo B Sal Sofía S Yvon-Durocher Gabriel G Bell Thomas T Pawar Samrāt S
Nature communications 20191112 1
Understanding how the metabolic rates of prokaryotes respond to temperature is fundamental to our understanding of how ecosystem functioning will be altered by climate change, as these micro-organisms are major contributors to global carbon efflux. Ecological metabolic theory suggests that species living at higher temperatures evolve higher growth rates than those in cooler niches due to thermodynamic constraints. Here, using a global prokaryotic dataset, we find that maximal growth rate at ther ...[more]