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Fig. 4 | BMC Ecology and Evolution

Fig. 4

From: Modeling the metabolic evolution of mixotrophic phytoplankton in response to rising ocean surface temperatures

Fig. 4

Comparing results of mixotroph-bacterial ecosystems involving either evolving (solid) or unevolving (dashed) mixotrophs as a function of temperature for generalist trade-off (top row) linear trade-off (middle row), and specialist trade-off (bottom row) mixotrophs. Column 1: Mixotroph population densities at equilibrium (M*) vs temperature. Column 2: Bacterial prey population densities at equilibrium (B*) vs temperature. Column 3: Photosynthetic and phagotrophic mixotrophic population growth rate components at equilibrium, P(θ, z, \({I}_{\mathrm{in}}\), T, M*M* and G(θ, T, M*) ·M* vs temperature. For plots g and h, outputs for both photosynthetic specialists, \({\theta }_{\mathrm{ESS}}=0\), (dark blue) and phagotrophic specialists, \({\theta }_{\mathrm{ESS}}=1\), (light blue) are shown. KB = 1·108 cellB · cm−2 and Iin = 100 µmol quanta · m−2 · s−1 used to generate plots

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