Warm-Loving Species Perform Well Under Limiting Resources: Trait Combinations for Future Climate.

ABSTRACT: Ecosystems are warming alongside shifts in other abiotic factors, leading to interactive effects on populations and communities. This underscores the importance of studying how organisms respond to multiple environmental changes simultaneously. In pelagic ecosystems, as surface waters warm, longer and stronger periods of thermal stratification lead to changes in resource (light and nutrient) availability. We investigate the combined effects of temperature and resource availability on the growth rates of 19 populations (comprising 17 species) of freshwater phytoplankton in order to examine how temperature influences the minimum resource requirements (and Monod parameters) for light, nitrogen, and phosphorus. We also evaluate how resource availability affects each population's thermal traits

SUBMITTER: Levasseur S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12550880 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature