GDAS’s GCIP Energy Budgets

Pooled Energy Budgets: Resituating Human Energy Allocation Trade-offs

Across taxa, many life-history traits vary as a function of differences in body size. Among primates, including humans, allometric relationships explain many trends in metabolic, growth, reproductive, and mortality rates. But humans also deviate from nonhuman primates with respect to other developmental, reproductive, and parenting characteristics. Broad relationships between life-history trait...

Comments on Dynamic Energy and Mass budgets in Biological Systems

Modelling nematode life cycles using dynamic energy budgets

1. To understand the life cycle of an organism, it is important to understand the underlying physiological mechanisms of their life histories. We here use the theory of dynamic energy budgets (DEB) to investigate the close relationships between growth, reproduction and respiration in nematodes. 2. Using a set of simplified equations based on DEB theory, we are able to accurately describe life-c...

Power Management for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Energy Budgets

This paper proposes and assesses analytical tools for largescale monitoring applications with wireless sensor networks powered by energy-harvesting supplies. We introduce the concept of an energy budget, the amount of energy available to a sensor node for a given period of time. The presented tools can be utilized to realize distributed algorithms that determine a schedule to perform the monito...

Energy budgets in Charney-Hasegawa-Mima and surface quasigeostrophic turbulence.

We study energy transfer in unbounded Charney-Hasegawa-Mima and surface quasigeostrophic turbulence. The possible inverse-cascading quantities in these systems are, respectively, I identical with integral ( infinity )(0)k(-2)E(k) dk and J identical with integral ( infinity )(0)k(-1)E(k) dk, where E(k) is the kinetic energy spectrum. The supposed direct-cascading quantities for both surface quas...