Imperial College London
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Professor Guy Woodward - Deputy Head of Department

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Professor of Ecology
 
 
 
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MunroSilwood Park

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Kordas:2021:rs.3.rs-900406/v1,
author = {Kordas, R and Pawar, S and Woodward, G and O'Gorman, E},
doi = {rs.3.rs-900406/v1},
title = {Metabolic plasticity can amplify ecosystem responses to global warming},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-900406/v1},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>        <jats:p>Organisms have the capacity to alter their physiological response to warming through acclimation or adaptation, but empirical evidence for this metabolic plasticity across species within food webs is lacking, and a generalisable framework does not exist for modelling its ecosystem-level consequences. Here we show that the ability of organisms to raise their metabolic rate following chronic exposure to warming decreases with increasing body size. Chronic exposure to higher temperatures also increases the sensitivity of organisms to short-term warming, irrespective of their body size. A mathematical model parameterised with these findings shows that metabolic plasticity could account for an additional 60% of ecosystem energy flux with just +2 °C of warming. This could explain why ecosystem respiration continues to rise in long-term warming experiments and highlights the need to embed metabolic plasticity in predictive models of global warming impacts on ecosystems.</jats:p>
AU  - Kordas,R
AU  - Pawar,S
AU  - Woodward,G
AU  - O'Gorman,E
DO  - rs.3.rs-900406/v1
PY  - 2021///
TI  - Metabolic plasticity can amplify ecosystem responses to global warming
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-900406/v1
ER  -
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