Metabolic rates of prokaryotic microbes may inevitably rise with global warming
T. P. Smith, T. J. H. Thomas, B. Garcia-Carreras, S. Sal, G. Yvon-Durocher, T. Bell, S. Pawar
The paper finds that mesophilic prokaryotes' maximal growth rates increase with temperature, while thermophiles do not, and shows that microbial metabolic rates will rise with global warming.
bioRxiv · Jan 18, 2019Ecology