Thanks everyone for your responses. A couple clarifications based on what some people are writing...(1) I did leave out the time element from the model as I just incorporated into the term "growth", which is actually "change in biomass over time" (i.e., dB/dt). (2) I do want to explicitely use the metabolic theory equations even if other models fit better as they (and I know there is plenty of debate about this) presume to be mechanistic explanations instead of mere empirical fits, and (3) I know I can make G0 really large, but that magnitude for the value of G0 is way larger than what is published in papers describing the MTE (e.g., Brown et al. 2004); so, it makes me a little nervous that I am doing something wrong.
Anymore ideas would be greatly appreciated! Dan ___________________________________________________________________ Daniel C. McEwen, Ph.D. Candidate North Dakota State University Department of Biological Sciences Stevens Hall 233 Fargo, ND 58105-5517 Phone: 701-231-6561 Fax: 701-231-7149 URL: http://www.ndsu.edu/ndsu/biosciences/students/dmcewen/index.html Major advisor: Malcolm G. Butler http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/mbutler/
