Warm-loving species perform well under limiting resources: Trait combinations for future climate

Ecosystems are warming alongside shifts in other abiotic factors, leading to interactive effects on populations and communities. This underscores the importance of studying how organisms respond to multiple environmental changes simultaneously. In pelagic ecosystems, as surface waters warm, longer and stronger periods of thermal stratification lead to changes in resource (light and nutrient) availability. We investigate the combined effects of temperature and resource availability on the growth rates of 19 populations (comprising 17 species) of freshwater phytoplankton to examine how temperature influences the minimum resource requirements (and Monod parameters) for light, nitrogen, and phosphorus. We also evaluate how resource availability affects each population's thermal traits (i.e., thermal performance curve -­ TPC -­ parameters). When averaged across all populations, the requirements for light and phosphorus tended to display a U-shaped relationship with temperature. Individual po..., , # Data from: Warm-loving species perform well under limiting resources: Trait combinations for future climate

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.ngf1vhj7s](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ngf1vhj7s)

## Description of the data and file structure

Among the many data files, only 3 are raw data: they are the phytoplankton fluorescence timeseries data. This is the starting point for producing data such as the growth rate, and based on this processed data, several resource and thermal traits can be estimated. The variables of the raw and processed data are described in detail in the scripts, as well as in a READ ME data document. The processed data is produced when the scripts are run, following the orders specified in the scripts (numbers 1-10, including sub-numbers for the resource traits and thermal traits). I have provided all processed data, including intermediate processed data. 

The data was obtained from lab experiments. The raw data is relative fluorescence from single phytoplankton popul...,