Protist predation influences the temperature response of bacterial communities

JD Rocca, A Yammine, M Simonin… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Temperature strongly influences microbial community structure and function, in turn
contributing to global carbon cycling that can fuel further warming. Recent studies suggest …

Toward a mechanistic understanding of how natural bacterial communities respond to changes in temperature in aquatic ecosystems

EK Hall, C Neuhauser, JB Cotner - The ISME journal, 2008 - academic.oup.com
We examine how heterotrophic bacterioplankton communities respond to temperature by
mathematically defining two thermally adapted species and showing how changes in …

Linking species traits and demography to explain complex temperature responses across levels of organization

DJ Wieczynski, P Singla, A Doan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Microbial communities regulate ecosystem responses to climate change. However,
predicting these responses is challenging because of complex interactions among …

Microbial community interactions are sensitive to small changes in temperature

E Burman, J Bengtsson-Palme - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Microbial communities are essential for human and environmental health, often forming
complex interaction networks responsible for driving ecosystem processes affecting their …

Thermal traits govern the response of microbial community dynamics and ecosystem functioning to warming

FC Garcia, R Warfield, G Yvon-Durocher - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the ecological processes that underpin the dynamics of community turnover
in response to environmental change is critical to predicting how warming will influence …

Higher temperatures generically favour slower-growing bacterial species in multispecies communities

S Lax, CI Abreu, J Gore - Nature ecology & evolution, 2020 - nature.com
Temperature is one of the fundamental environmental variables that determine the
composition and function of microbial communities. However, a predictive understanding of …

Effects of temperature variability on community structure in a natural microbial food web

A Zander, LF Bersier, SM Gray - Global change biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change research has demonstrated that changing temperatures will have an effect
on community‐level dynamics by altering species survival rates, shifting species …

Protistan grazing impacts microbial communities and carbon cycling at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

SK Hu, EL Herrera, AR Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Microbial eukaryotes (or protists) in marine ecosystems are a link between primary
producers and all higher trophic levels, and the rate at which heterotrophic protistan grazers …

Community-level respiration of prokaryotic microbes may rise with global warming

TP Smith, TJH Thomas, B García-Carreras… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding how the metabolic rates of prokaryotes respond to temperature is
fundamental to our understanding of how ecosystem functioning will be altered by climate …

Experimental manipulation of microbiota reduces host thermal tolerance and fitness under heat stress in a vertebrate ectotherm

SS Fontaine, PM Mineo, KD Kohl - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - nature.com
Identifying factors that influence how ectothermic animals respond physiologically to
changing temperatures is of high importance given current threats of global climate change …