Data from: Warming reduces the effects of enrichment on stability and functioning across levels of organization in an aquatic microbial ecosystem

Warming and nutrient enrichment are major environmental factors shaping
ecological dynamics. However, cross-scale investigation of their combined
effects by linking theory and experiments is lacking. We collected data
from aquatic microbial ecosystems investigating the interactive effects of
warming (constant and rising temperatures) and enrichment across levels of
organization and contrasted them with community models based on metabolic
theory. We found high agreement between our observations and theoretical
predictions: we observed in many cases the predicted antagonistic effects
of high temperature and high enrichment across levels of organization.
Temporal stability of total biomass decreased with warming but did not
differ across enrichment levels. Constant and rising temperature
treatments with identical mean temperature did not show qualitative
differences. Overall, we conclude that model and empirical results are in
broad agreement due to robustness of the effects of temperature and
enrichment, that the mitigating effects of temperature on effects of
enrichment may be common, and that models based on metabolic theory
provide qualitatively robust predictions of the combined ecological
effects of enrichment and temperature.