Applicability of Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) models across steep environmental gradients.

ABSTRACT: Robust ecological forecasting requires accurate predictions of physiological responses to environmental drivers. Energy budget models facilitate this by mechanistically linking biology to abiotic drivers, but are usually ground-truthed under relatively stable physical conditions, omitting temporal/spatial environmental variability. Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory is a powerful framework capable of linking individual fitness to environmental drivers and we tested its ability to accommodate variability by examining model predictions across the rocky shore, a steep ecotone characterized by wide fluctuations in temperature and food availability. We parameterized DEB models for co-existing mid/high-shore (Mytilus galloprovincialis) and mid/low-shore (Perna perna) mussels on the south coast o

SUBMITTER: Monaco CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6219521 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature