Table 1.

Choice of DEB parameters for ecotoxicity purposes, defaults for Daphnia magna (Kooijman et al. 2008), and fits on controls with likelihood-based confidence intervals

Symbol	Description	Defaults Daphnia	Fits (95% CI)
g	Energy investment ratio	0.422 [–]	n.e.
v	Energy conductance	3.24 mm d−1	1.96 (1.7–2.2) mm d−1
k M	Somatic maintenance rate coefficient	1.71 d−1	1.51 (1.3–1.8) d−1
k	Ratio of maturity and somatic maintenance rate coefficient	1 [–]	n.e.
κ	Allocation fraction to soma	0.80 [–]	0.551 (0.40–0.67) [–]
κ R	Reproduction efficiency	0.95 [–]	n.e.
U pH	Scaled maturity at puberty	0.366 mm2 d	0.966 (0.61–1.4) mm2 d
U bH/U pH	Maturity at birth, relative to puberty	0.0328 [–]	n.e.
f	Scaled ingestion rate	1 [–]	n.e.

n.e. not estimated