Chlorella_TRC: Example metabolic thermal response curves
Description
A dataset containing example data of rates of photosynthesis and respiration of the phytoplankton Chlorella vulgaris. Instantaneous rates of metabolism were made across a range of assay temperatures to incorporate the entire thermal response of the populations. The dataset is the cleaned version so some datapoints have been omitted.
Usage
data("Chlorella_TRC")
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 649 rows and 7 variables:
curve_id
a unique value for each separate curve
growth.temp
the growth temperature that the culture was maintained at before measurements were taken (degrees centigrade)
process
whether the cultures had been kept for a long time at their growth temperature (adaptation/~100 generations) or a short time (a measure of acclimation/~10 generations)
flux
whether the curve depicts respiration or gross photosynthesis
temp
the assay temperature at which the metabolic rate was measured (degrees centigrade)
Padfield, D., Yvon-durocher, G., Buckling, A., Jennings, S. & Yvon-durocher, G. (2015). Rapid evolution of metabolic traits explains thermal adaptation in phytoplankton, Ecology Letters, 19, 133-142.