Rapid eco-phenotypic feedback and the temperature response of biomass dynamics.

ABSTRACT: Biomass dynamics capture information on population dynamics and ecosystem-level processes (e.g., changes in production over time). Understanding how rising temperatures associated with global climate change influence biomass dynamics is thus a pressing issue in ecology. The total biomass of a species depends on its density and its average mass. Consequently, disentangling how biomass dynamics responds to increasingly warm and variable temperatures ultimately depends on understanding how temperature influences both density and mass dynamics. Here, we address this issue by keeping track of experimental microbial populations growing to carrying capacity for 15 days at two different temperatures, and in the presence and absence of temperature variability. We develop a simple mathematical expre

SUBMITTER: Gibert JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9831973 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature