From molecules to ecosystems through dynamic energy budget models

TLDR

We have content for each. Let's aggregate: Background: lines with [Background]: - "Dynamic energy budget (DEB) models describe how individuals acquire and utilize energy, and can serve as a link between different levels of biological organization." - "Challenging questions arise when linking DEB models with evolutionary theory." Combine into one sentence: maybe "Dynamic energy budget (DEB) models describe how individuals acquire and utilize energy and link different biological organization levels, yet challenges remain when integrating them with evolutionary theory." Purpose: lines with [Purpose, Mechanism] (also includes Purpose). The sentence: "We describe the formulation and testing of DEB models, and show how the dynamics of individual organisms link to molecular processes, to population dynamics, and (more tenuously) to ecosystem dynamics." Mechanism: same line. So we can use same content: "We describe the formulation and testing of DEB models, showing how individual organism dynamics link to molecular processes, population dynamics, and, more tenuously, ecosystem dynamics." Findings: lines with [Findings]: - "DEB models offer mechanistic explanations of body-size scaling relationships." - "DEB models constitute powerful tools for applications in toxicology and biotechnology." Combine: "DEB models provide mechanistic explanations of body-size scaling relationships and serve as powerful tools for toxicology and biotechnology applications." Other: lines with [Other] have many: Summary 1. 2.

Abstract

Summary 1. Dynamic energy budget (DEB) models describe how individuals acquire and utilize energy, and can serve as a link between different levels of biological organization. 2. We describe the formulation and testing of DEB models, and show how the dynamics of individual organisms link to molecular processes, to population dynamics, and (more tenuously) to ecosystem dynamics. 3. DEB models offer mechanistic explanations of body‐size scaling relationships. 4. DEB models constitute powerful tools for applications in toxicology and biotechnology. 5. Challenging questions arise when linking DEB models with evolutionary theory.