Every biological process depends critically on temperature. It’s true of the very small, the very large, and every scale in-between, from molecules to ecosystems and across every environment.
A general theory describing how life depends on temperature has been lacking — until now. In a paper pubished in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers led by Jose Ignacio Arroyo, a Santa Fe Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, introduce a simple framework that rigorously predicts how temperature affects living things, at all scales.
“It is very fundamental,” says SFI External…
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