A Global Pattern of Thermal Adaptation in Marine Phytoplankton

By Mridul K. Thomas, Colin T. Kremer, C. Klausmeier, Elena Litchman. Science, 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Poleward expansion of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi (2014, background): “The rising surface temperature of the high latitudes oceans also has important consequences for the migration of phytoplankton (Thomas et al., 2012) and could provide a simpler explanation for the recent migration of E. huxleyi into the polar waters.”
Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures? (2016, background): “…example, several studies have predicted that climate warming will have relatively large and negative effects on tropical ectotherms, even though the rate of warming is slower in the tropics than at higher latitudes (Deutsch et al. 2008; Dillon et al. 2010; Thomas et al. 2012; Sunday et al. 2014).”
Integrating climate-related stressor effects on marine organisms: unifying principles linking molecule to ecosystem-level changes (2012, background): “…metazoan heat limits, ongoing warm- 285 Mar Ecol Prog Ser 470: 273–290, 2012 ing causes shifts of eukaryotic phytoplankton to higher latitudes, there by indicating lower heat limits and that large-scale biogeography of these or - ga nisms is also influenced by temperature (Thomas et al. 2012).”
Modeling the temperature effect on the specific growth rate of phytoplankton: a review (2017, methodology): “The model comparison is based on the analysis of 193 thermal curve responses associated to 193 different strains, resulting from 130 species (Thomas et al. 2012).”
Temperature and the biogeography of algal stoichiometry (2015, background): “In contrast, long-term temperature differences among sites might promote population-level selection for algal taxa that differ in their thermal niches (Thomas et al., 2012) and average C:N:P stoichiometry (Quigg et al.”
Ecologically differentiated stress-tolerant endosymbionts in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) Clade D are different species (2014, background): “Mean annual temperatures were recently shown by Thomas et al. (2012) to have a large influence in thermal adaptation among phytoplankton obtained at locations encompassing 1508 of latitude.”
Differing responses of marine N2 fixers to warming and consequences for future diazotroph community structure (2014, background): “A re cent paper compiled a large dataset from the literature on the temperature responses of cultured phytoplankton, and used these data to model their likely distribution changes in a future warmer ocean (Thomas et al. 2012).”
Ecological niches of open ocean phytoplankton taxa (2015, background): “The physiological effects of these factors are well studied for numerous phytoplankton groups and described by temperature and light sensitivities and optima (Litchman and Klausmeier 2008; Thomas et al. 2012).”
Phytoplankton growth and the interaction of light and temperature: A synthesis at the species and community level (2016, background): “Phytoplankton are very sensitive to environmental change (Doney et al. 2012), and both temperature and irradiance are among the key environmental drivers whose distribution is predicted to continue changing in the future (De Stasio et al. 1996; Boyd et al. 2015).”
Global biogeochemical impacts of phytoplankton: a trait‐based perspective (2015, background): “Growth rates are strongly linked to temperature, yet individual species often differ dramatically in their temperature dependence (Thomas et al. 2012; Boyd et al. 2013).”
Heat stress and the fitness consequences of climate change for terrestrial ectotherms (2013, result): “Several other recent analyses support the negative impacts of climate change for tropical ectotherms (Huey et al. 2009; Sinervo et al. 2010; Diamond et al. 2012; Bonebrake & Deutsch 2012; Thomas et al. 2012).”