Climate warming is increasingly leading to marked changes in plant and animal biodiversity, but it remains unclear how temperatures affect microbial biodiversity, particularly in terrestrial soils.

Two temperature scales are in common use the meteorology: Fahrenheit and centigrade. The Fahrenheit scale is popular in the United States and Great Britain, but the centigrade scale is used elsewhere.

Before we convert temperature scales, let’s take a step back and think about what temperature is in the first place. Temperature is proportional to the average kinetic energy of the random microscopic ...