Event: DEB2025 School: 26 May-3 June
Location: Univ. of Crete, Iraklion, Greece
Date: 27 May 2025, 09:00-10:00
Lecturer: Bas Kooijman (emeritus); bas.kooijman@vu.nl
Affiliation: A-Life, VU University Amsterdam
Title: Acceleration and its evolution

I will review the 5 different types of metabolic acceleration that have been delineated so far.
The most frequently occuring type, the Morph-type, structures the DEB models that are used in AmP.
The key is how surface areas (assimilation) relate to volumes (maintenance).
Definitions and examples will be given for each type.

References:

 Add-my-Pet database:
 https://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/deb/deblab/add_my_pet/

 Marques, G.M., Lika, K., Pecquerie, L., Domingos, T. & Kooijman, S.A.L.M. 2018
 The AmP project: Comparing Species on the Basis of Dynamic Energy Budget Parameters.
 PLOS Comp. Biol. 14: e1006100

 Kooijman, S.A.L.M. 2014
 Metabolic acceleration in animal ontogeny: An evolutionary perspective.
 J. Sea Res. 94: 128-137