Phytoplankton thermal responses adapt in the absence of hard thermodynamic constraints

DG Kontopoulos, E van Sebille, M Lange… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
To better predict how populations and communities respond to climatic temperature
variation, it is necessary to understand how the shape of the response of fitness-related …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive evolution shapes the present-day distribution of the thermal sensitivity of population growth rate

DG Kontopoulos, TP Smith, TG Barraclough… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Developing a thorough understanding of how ectotherm physiology adapts to different
thermal environments is of crucial importance, especially in the face of global climate …

Swift thermal reaction norm evolution in a key marine phytoplankton species

L Listmann, M LeRoch, L Schlüter… - Evolutionary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature has a profound effect on the species composition and physiology of marine
phytoplankton, a polyphyletic group of microbes responsible for half of global primary …

Quantifying the temperature dependence of growth rate in marine phytoplankton within and across species

S Barton, G Yvon‐Durocher - Limnology and Oceanography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Models of marine biogeochemistry capture the effects of temperature on
phytoplankton growth via the monotonic, exponential Eppley coefficient, without considering …

Evidence of partial thermal compensation in natural phytoplankton assemblages

K Liu, B Chen, H Liu - Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Whether phytoplankton growth is solely constrained by temperature (hotter is better) or
compensated by thermal adaptation is still under debate. We measured the temperature …

Phytoplankton thermal trait parameterization alters community structure and biogeochemical processes in a modeled ocean

SI Anderson, C Fronda, AD Barton… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton exhibit diverse physiological responses to temperature which influence their
fitness in the environment and consequently alter their community structure. Here, we …

Environment and evolutionary history determine the global biogeography of phytoplankton temperature traits

MK Thomas, CT Kremer… - Global Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Ecological and evolutionary forces shape the functional traits of species within and
across environments, generating biogeographical patterns in traits. We aimed to:(1) …

Thermal niche evolution of functional traits in a tropical marine phototroph

KG Baker, DT Radford, C Evenhuis… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐based plants and ocean‐dwelling microbial phototrophs known as phytoplankton, are
together responsible for almost all global primary production. Habitat warming associated …

Evolution of thermal tolerance and phenotypic plasticity under rapid and slow temperature fluctuations

CE Schaum, A Buckling, N Smirnoff… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Global warming is associated with an increase in sea surface temperature and its variability.
The consequences of evolving in variable, fluctuating environments are explored by a large …

[HTML][HTML] Marine phytoplankton functional types exhibit diverse responses to thermal change

SI Anderson, AD Barton, S Clayton… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Marine phytoplankton generate half of global primary production, making them essential to
ecosystem functioning and biogeochemical cycling. Though phytoplankton are …