Testing the Metabolic Theory of Ecology with marine bacteria: Different temperature sensitivity of major phylogenetic groups during the spring phytoplankton bloom

We are grateful to Basque Government for supporting N.A.G.’s PhD fellowship and to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) for supporting T.M.HS.’ s PhD fellowship, L.A.S.’s Juan de la Cierva and Ramon y Cajal fellowships and the COMITE project (CTM-2010–15840). The Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) time-series programme Radiales provided logistic support for seawater collection. We are especially thankful to all the staff of the R/V “Jose de Rioja” for their help during the sampling collection and L. Diaz, A. Calvo-Diaz and E. Nogueira for their help during the experiments.