Integrating dynamic energy budget (DEB) theory with traditional bioenergetic models

RM Nisbet, M Jusup, T Klanjscek… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Dynamic energy budget (DEB) theory offers a systematic, though abstract, way to describe
how an organism acquires and uses energy and essential elements for physiological …

Life histories, salinity zones, and sublethal contributions of contaminants to pelagic fish declines illustrated with a case study of San Francisco Estuary, California, USA

ML Brooks, E Fleishman, LR Brown, PW Lehman… - Estuaries and …, 2012 - Springer
Human effects on estuaries are often associated with major decreases in abundance of
aquatic species. However, remediation priorities are difficult to identify when declines result …

Dynamic energy budget theory meets individual‐based modelling: A generic and accessible implementation

BT Martin, EI Zimmer, V Grimm… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory was designed to understand the dynamics of
biological systems from cells to populations and ecosystems via a mass balance approach …

Simplified dynamic energy budget model for analysing ecotoxicity data

T Jager, EI Zimmer - Ecological Modelling, 2012 - Elsevier
Models based on Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory offer important advantages in the
interpretation of toxicant effects on life-history traits. In contrast to descriptive approaches …

Metabolic theory, life history and the distribution of a terrestrial ectotherm

M Kearney - Functional Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Life histories, population dynamics and geographic range limits are fundamentally
constrained by the way organisms acquire and allocate energy and matter. Metabolic …

Testing metabolic theories

MR Kearney, CR White - The American Naturalist, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
Metabolism is the process by which individual organisms acquire energy and materials from
their environment and use them for maintenance, differentiation, growth, and reproduction …

Scaling up in ecology: mechanistic approaches

M Denny, L Benedetti-Cecchi - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Ecologists have long grappled with the problem of scaling up from tractable, small-scale
observations and experiments to the prediction of large-scale patterns. Although there are …

Estimating von Bertalanffy parameters with individual and environmental variations in growth

AO Shelton, M Mangel - Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Variation among individuals is an ubiquitous feature of natural populations. However, the
relative roles of intrinsic individual differences and stochastic processes in generating …

Reconstructing individual food and growth histories from biogenic carbonates

L Pecquerie, R Fablet, H De Pontual… - Marine Ecology …, 2012 - int-res.com
Environmental conditions experienced by aquatic organisms are archived in biogenic
carbonates such as fish otoliths, bivalve shells and coral skeletons. These calcified …

The trade-off between maturation and growth during accelerated development in frogs

CA Mueller, S Augustine, SALM Kooijman… - … and Physiology Part A …, 2012 - Elsevier
Developmental energetics are crucial to a species' life history and ecology but are poorly
understood from a mechanistic perspective. Traditional energy and mass budgeting does …