Speaker: Bas Kooijman Location: IST, Lisbon Meeting: Practical part of the DEB tele-course 2011 Date: 2011/04/04/08:00-09:00 Title: The standard DEB model; summary of the tele-part of the DEB-tele course 2011 I will not just summarize the material of the tele-part of the course, but - focus on concepts - discuss the function of these concepts in the theory - compare these concepts with alternatives that can be found in the literature Topics: - Strong & weak homeostasis supply-demand spectrum - Effects of temperature - Macrochemical reaction equations: conservation of chemical elements - Synthesizing Units for transformations & behaviour: time conservation - Turnover of pools, residence times stomach & gut reserve structure & somatic maintenance - Maturation & maturity maintenance - Changes in shape & size control V0-, iso, V1-morphy von Bertalanffy - Stochastic version of the standard DEB model