Fig. 1: Climate-dependency of microbial physiological traits and their thermal sensitivities.
From: Thermal sensitivity of soil microbial carbon use efficiency across forest biomes
a Relationship between mass-specific growth (growth per unit microbial biomass carbon) and mean annual temperature (MAT) at different measuring temperatures. b Relationship between mass-specific respiration (respiration per unit microbial biomass carbon) and MAT at different measuring temperatures (local polynomial regression). c Relationship between microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) and MAT at different measuring temperatures. d Relationship between thermal sensitivity of microbial growth and MAT. e Relationship between thermal sensitivity of respiration and MAT. f Relationship between thermal sensitivity of microbial CUE and MAT. Relationships are denoted with solid lines and fit statistics (R2 and P values).
