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. 2015 Apr 15;6:310. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00310

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Changes in bacterial respiration, bacterial production, and bacterial growth efficiency (BGE) in relation to the increase in water temperature in five humic tropical lagoons (Cabiunas – Cab, Carapebus – Carap, Comprida – Comp, Amarra-Boi – Aboi, and Atoleiro – Atol). For each temperature, all bacterial data related to different nutrient additions were pooled together because temperature effects were consistent for all lagoons and independent of nutrient additions (see Table 2 for the analysis results). Colored thin lines link the medians of bacterial data for each lagoon at each incubation temperature. The black central line represents the best fitting line that predicts bacterial respiration (BR), production (BP), or growth efficiency (BGE) in response to water temperature. Intercepts and slopes of best fitting lines for BR, BP, or BGE are: -0.055 and 0.0144 (BR), 0.128, and -0.0009 (BP), and 0.488, slope = -0.0116 (BGE).