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Current research on DEB theory
Bas Kooijman
Dept theoretical biology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
[email protected]
http://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/
Marseille, 2007/01/17
Historic roots Aug 1979
Two questions:
• How should we quantify effects of
chemical compounds on reproduction of daphnids?
reproduction  energy budget
• How bad is it for the environment if daphnid reproduction
is a bit reduced due to toxic stress?
individual  population  ecosystem
prediction outside observed range: first principles
Modes of action of toxicants
6.4
 assimilation
food
 maintenance costs
defecation
feeding
faeces

 growth costs
assimilation
 reproduction costs
reserve
somatic
maintenance

maint
1-
7

growth

structure
u

tumour
6
 hazard to embryo
maturity
maintenance
maturation
reproduction
maturity
offspring

6
tumour induction
7
endocr. disruption
8
lethal effects:
hazard rate
Mode of action affects
translation to pop level
Individual  Ecosystem
• population dynamics is derived from
properties of individuals + interactions between them
• evolution according to Darwin:
variation between individuals + selection
• material and energy balances:
most easy for individuals
• individuals are survival machines of life
DEB – ontogeny - IBM
1980
Daphnia
ecotox
embryos
application
body size
scaling
epidemiol
applications
morph
dynamics indirect
calorimetry
micro’s
food chains
1990
NECs
DEBtox 1
Synthesizing
Units
multivar
plants
2000
tumour
induction organ adaptation
function
ISO/OECD
bifurcation
analysis numerical
methods
Global
bif-analysis
aging
DEB 1
DEB 2
von Foerster
molecular
organisation
ecosystem
dynamics
integral
formulations
adaptive
dynamics
symbioses
ecosystem
Self-orginazation
Shift in emphasis
From concrete questions about individuals
quantification of properties of individuals + consequences
To metabolic organisation at various levels
relationships between levels of organisation
Space-time scales
1.2.1
space
Each process has its characteristic domain of space-time scales
system earth
ecosystem
population
individual
cell
molecule
When changing the space-time scale,
new processes will become important
other will become less important
Individuals are special because of
straightforward energy/mass balances
time
Dynamic Energy Budget theory
for metabolic organization
• links levels of organization
molecules, cells, individuals, populations, ecosystems
scales in space and time: scale separation
• interplay between biology, mathematics,
physics, chemistry, earth system sciences
• framework of general systems theory
• quantitative; first principles only
equivalent of theoretical physics
• fundamental to biology; many practical applications
(bio)production, medicine, (eco)toxicity, climate change
Standard DEB model
Isomorph with 1 reserve and 1 structure
that feeds of 1 type of food and
has 3 life stages (embryo, juvenile, adult)
Extensions:
• more types of food and food qualities
• more types of reserve
• more types of structure
• changes in morphology
• different number of life stages
Empirical special cases of DEB
year
author
model
year
author
model
1780
Lavoisier
multiple regression of heat against
mineral fluxes
1950
Emerson
cube root growth of bacterial colonies
1825
Gompertz
Survival probability for aging
1951
Huggett & Widdas
foetal growth
1889
Arrhenius
1902
temperature dependence of
DEB theory
is rates
axiomatic, 1951 Weibull
physiological
allometric
of body parts
Huxleybased
1955
Best
on growth
mechanisms
Michaelis--Menten
kinetics empirical
Henri not meant
1957
Smith
to glue
models
1905
Blackman
1910
Hill
1891
1920
1927
bilinear functional response
1959
Leudeking & Piret
survival probability for aging
diffusion limitation of uptake
embryonic respiration
microbial product formation
Cooperative binding
hyperbolic functional response
1959
Holling
Since many
empirical models
von Bertalanffy growth of
maintenance in yields of biomass
Pütter
1962
Marr & Pirt
individuals
turn out
to be special cases of DEB theory
logistic population growth
reserve (cell quota) dynamics
Pearl
Droop
the data
behind these 1973
models
support DEB
theory
1928
Fisher &
Tippitt
1932
Kleiber
Weibull aging
1974
Rahn & Ar
water loss in bird eggs
This makes
theory
very
tested against
data
respirationDEB
scales with
body
digestion
1975 well
Hungate
weight3/ 4
1932
Mayneord
cube root growth of tumours
1977
Beer & Anderson
development of salmonid embryos
Daphnia
Length, mm
1/yield, mmol glucose/ mg cells
O2 consumption, μl/h
DEB theory reveals unexpected links
Streptococcus
1/spec growth rate, 1/h
respiration  length in individual animals & yield  growth in pop of prokaryotes
have a lot in common, as revealed by DEB theory
Reserve plays an important role in both relationships,
but you need DEB theory to see why and how
DEB tele course 2007
Cambridge Univ Press 2000
http://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/deb/
Free of financial costs; some 200 h effort investment
Feb-April 2007; target audience: PhD students
We encourage participation in groups
that organize local meetings weekly
Participants of DEB tele course 2005 created AQUAdeb:
special issue of J. Sea Res. 2006 on DEB applications to bivalves
Software package DEBtool for Octave/ Matlab
freely downloadable
Slides of this presentation will be downloadable from
http://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/users/bas/lectures/
Audience:
thank you for your attention