Fig. 5.

Differences in short-term thermal sensitivity across taxonomic groups. a Comparison of the intra-specific thermal sensitivity (${\overline{E}}_{\mathrm{S}}$) for growth (green triangles) and metabolic fluxes (purple circles). Error bars represent 95% CIs. CIs for growth rate thermal sensitivity fall within those for metabolic fluxes, and each sit above 0.65 eV (dotted line) for both archaea and bacteria (bacteria growth ${\overline{E}}_{\mathrm{S}}$ = 0.88 eV, n = 416; bacteria flux ${\overline{E}}_{\mathrm{S}}$ = 0.82 eV, n = 28; archaea growth ${\overline{E}}_{\mathrm{S}}$ = 0.95 eV, n = 82; archaea flux ${\overline{E}}_{\mathrm{S}}$ = 1.01 eV, n = 20). b Density plot of flux $E_{\mathrm{S}}$ values for archaea and bacteria. c Density plot of growth rate $E_{\mathrm{S}}$ values for archaea and bacteria. d Density plot of $E_{\mathrm{S}}$ values for respiration rate TPCs in autotrophic eukaryotes, showing comparatively lower mean thermal sensitivity than those of the distributions for prokaryotes (${\overline{E}}_{\mathrm{S}}=0.67$ eV, n = 381). Source data are provided as a source data file