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The standard dynamic energy budget model has no plausible alternatives

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During its 40 years of development, the assumptions of the Dynamic Energy Budget (deb) theory for metabolic organisation turned out hard to replace. To understand this, a reasoning is here presented for why its standard model has no alternatives with a comparable level of simplicity and will never have them. Energy and mass conservation rules are essential to quantify the eco-physiological development of an individual organism thermodynamically. These rules strongly constrain the mathematical modelling of this development. In combination with consistency with a small set of stylised empirical facts, the freedom of modelling the skeleton of the model is reduced to a single one: the standard deb model. This skeleton can, however, be extended in many different ways to capture particular ‘details’. The key-message of this paper is that the more simple metabolic models become, the more constraining are consistency conditions.

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  • Kooijman, Sebastiaan A.L.M., 2020. "The standard dynamic energy budget model has no plausible alternatives," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 428(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:428:y:2020:i:c:s0304380020301782
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109106
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    1. Kooijman, Sebastiaan A.L.M. & Lika, Konstadia & Augustine, Starrlight & Marn, Nina & Kooi, Bob W., 2020. "The energetic basis of population growth in animal kingdom," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 428(C).
    2. Lika, Konstadia & Augustine, Starrlight & Kooijman, Sebastiaan A.L.M., 2020. "The use of augmented loss functions for estimating dynamic energy budget parameters," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 428(C).
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    1. Kooijman, Sebastiaan A.L.M. & Lika, Konstadia & Augustine, Starrlight & Marn, Nina & Kooi, Bob W., 2020. "The energetic basis of population growth in animal kingdom," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 428(C).

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