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dc.contributor.authorLax, Simon
dc.contributor.authorAbreu, Clare Isabel
dc.contributor.authorGore, Jeff
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-27T14:35:55Z
dc.date.available2020-10-27T14:35:55Z
dc.date.issued2020-03
dc.date.submitted2019-07
dc.identifier.issn2397-334X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128214
dc.description.abstractTemperature is one of the fundamental environmental variables that determine the composition and function of microbial communities. However, a predictive understanding of how microbial communities respond to changes in temperature is lacking, partly because it is not obvious which aspects of microbial physiology determine whether a species could benefit from a change in the temperature. Here we incorporate how microbial growth rates change with temperature into a modified Lotka–Volterra competition model and predict that higher temperatures should—in general—favour the slower-growing species in a bacterial community. We experimentally confirm this prediction in pairwise cocultures assembled from a diverse set of species and show that these changes to pairwise outcomes with temperature are also predictive of changing outcomes in three-species communities, suggesting that our theory may be applicable to more-complex assemblages. Our results demonstrate that it is possible to predict how bacterial communities will shift with temperature knowing only the growth rates of the community members. These results provide a testable hypothesis for future studies of more-complex natural communities and we hope that this work will help to bridge the gap between ecological theory and the complex dynamics observed in metagenomic surveys.en_US
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLCen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/S41559-020-1126-5en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourcebioRxiven_US
dc.titleHigher temperatures generically favour slower-growing bacterial species in multispecies communitiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationLax, Simon et al. "Higher temperatures generically favour slower-growing bacterial species in multispecies communities." Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 4 (March 2020): 560–567 © 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physicsen_US
dc.relation.journalNature Ecology and Evolutionen_US
dc.eprint.versionOriginal manuscripten_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/NonPeerRevieweden_US
dc.date.updated2020-10-26T16:28:40Z
dspace.orderedauthorsLax, S; Abreu, CI; Gore, Jen_US
dspace.date.submission2020-10-26T16:28:47Z
mit.journal.volume4en_US
mit.journal.issue4en_US
mit.licensePUBLISHER_POLICY
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