Thermal adaptation constrains the temperature dependence of ecosystem metabolism
D. Padfield, C. Lowe, A. Buckling, R. Ffrench-Constant, E. Schaum, S. Jennings, F. Shelley, J. Olafsson, G. Yvon-Durocher, Students of BIO244 Iceland Field Course
The paper shows that thermal adaptation reduces the temperature sensitivity of ecosystem metabolism in geothermally heated streams, with GPP rates independent of temperature after accounting for biomass differences.
bioRxiv · Feb 15, 2017Ecology