The neritic marine copepod Centropages typicus does not suffer physiological costs from diel temperature fluctuations associated with its vertical migration

The effect of short-term temperature exposure on vital physiological processes of mixoplankton and protozooplankton

“…It is important to stress the laboratory nature of this study and the inherent adaptation to a constant temperature in the species (and strains) considered. In spite of being a perfectly natural approach to study microplanktonic communities for logistical reasons (Flynn et al, 2019), field communities likely experience temperature oscillations within a day (e.g., Olivares et al, 2022). These natural diel variations may decrease the overall effect of temperature on the physiological rates assessed in our study since the effects of adaptation to a specific set of abiotic conditions is mostly absent in the field.…”