EcologybioRxiv
Metabolic rates of prokaryotic microbes may inevitably rise with global warming
T. P. Smith, T. J. H. Thomas, B. Garcia-Carreras…·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.
DOI 10.1038/s41467-019-13109-1