Understanding the mechanisms that determine how phytoplankton adapt to warming will
substantially improve the realism of models describing ecological and biogeochemical effects …

Community coalescence, the mixing of different communities, is widespread throughout
microbial ecology. Coalescence can result in approximately equal contributions from the …

Quantifying thermal performance curves (TPCs) for biological rates has many applications to
important problems such as predicting responses of biological systems—from individuals to …

In ecosystems, the efficiency of energy transfer from resources to consumers determines the
biomass structure of food webs. As a general rule, about 10% of the energy produced in one …

There exists an enormous diversity of bacteria capable of human infection, but no up-to-date,
publicly accessible list is available. Combining a pragmatic definition of pathogenicity with …

With rising antibiotic resistance, there has been increasing interest in treating pathogenic
bacteria with bacteriophages (phage therapy). One limitation of phage therapy is the ease at …

Gross primary production ( GPP ) is the largest flux in the carbon cycle, yet its response to
global warming is highly uncertain. The temperature dependence of GPP is directly linked to …

A number of experimental studies have demonstrated that phytoplankton can display rapid
thermal adaptation in response to warmed environments. While these studies provide insight …

Thermal performance curves (TPCs) are used to predict changes in species interactions,
and hence, range shifts, disease dynamics and community composition, under forecasted …

Interspecific coevolutionary interactions can result in rapid biotic adaptation, but most
studies have focused only on species pairs. Here, we (co)evolved five microbial species in …