Systematic variation in the temperature dependence of bacterial carbon use efficiency

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 24; no. 10; pp. 2123 - 2133
• Main Authors: Smith, Thomas P., Clegg, Tom, Bell, Thomas, Pawar, Samrāt, Bardgett, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Paris Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2021
• Subjects: Bacteria; Carbon; carbon use efficiency; Changing environments; community; Environmental changes; Growth rate; maximum growth rate; microbe; Microbial activity; microbial physiology; Microorganisms; Physiology; Population growth; respiration; temperature; Temperature dependence; Variation

Carbon use efficiency (CUE) is a key characteristic of microbial physiology and underlies community‐level responses to changing environments. Yet, we currently lack general empirical insights into variation in microbial CUE at the level of individual taxa. Here, through experiments with 29 strains o...