Table 3. Statistical comparison of the bootstrapping results for each of the three thermal traits Temperature optima, Maximum growth rate and temperate niche width (w).

Species	Strain	Temp. opt.upper. CI	Temp. opt.lower.CI	Max.growth.upper. CI	Max. growth.lower. CI	w. upper.CI	w. lowerCI
T. erythraeum	KO4_20	27.69	26.73	0.28	0.26	19.32	17.79
	GBRTRLI101	29.57	27.72	0.34	0.30	34.18	18.35
	21_75	27.61	26.13	0.28	0.25	17.45	16.48
C. watsonii	WH005	29.84	26.48	0.51	0.40	16.40	12.65
	WH84	30.02	26.35	0.52	0.40	16.34	12.69
	3A	30.17	28.43	0.41	0.35	14.35	12.87
P. inermis		4.32	2.97	0.35	0.30	59.39	1.16
A. sanguinea	RMB	22.72	21.46	0.36	0.33	24.11	22.30
	YRB	26.54	24.81	0.40	0.38	99.50	37.51
	GBB	25.86	23.09	0.44	0.39	63.95	24.58
	BWA	23.01	21.16	0.37	0.33	28.07	23.16
P. donghaiense		28.45	27.26	0.70	0.63	29.02	24.49
T. pseudonana	CCMP1011	23.98	19.15	1.15	0.86	47.24	22.52
	CCMP1012	24.23	20.64	1.30	1.06	27.99	22.45
	CCMP1013	26.97	25.99	1.52	1.40	62.20	27.91
	CCMP1014	27.16	25.96	1.63	1.41	103.30	42.20
	CCMP1015	27.12	26.17	1.59	1.40	93.39	46.09
	CCMP1335	27.44	25.89	1.57	1.29	87.04	32.95
T. rotula	JPNTR18	19.10	18.21	0.71	0.69	50.76	37.04
	CCMP3096	19.67	18.66	0.76	0.73	41.49	33.09
	CCMP1647	21.27	21.07	0.78	0.77	26.05	25.84
	CCMP3264	19.92	17.89	0.86	0.79	32.24	28.35
	CCAP1085_21	19.22	19.04	0.80	0.79	31.85	31.31
T. weissflogii	CCMP1053	20.04	19.33	0.70	0.66	21.47	20.34
Synechococcus	CCFWC 502	36.46	31.88	0.78	0.70	48.70	29.17

CI denotes confidence interval.