Table 1.

Effects of temperature on rate of development, biomass accumulation and metabolism and on body size at maturity. Experimental studies conducted at different temperatures provide data on development rate (E_d in ) and body size (E_g − E_d in ) of different species. Effects of temperature on growth rate (E_g in ) and metabolic rate (E_a in ) are calculated by E_a − (1/4)E_g − (3/4)E_d = 0 from the model. (Original data are in electronic supplementary material, appendix D.)

taxon	species	sex	development rate,	adult size, M	biomass accumulation rate, ∂m/∂t	metabolic rate, B
			Ed (eV) (empirical)	Eg − Ed (eV) (empirical)	Eg (eV) (calculated)	Ea (eV) (calculated)
nematode	C. elegans	n.a.	0.61	−0.14	0.47	0.58
mollusc	Crepidula plana	n.a.	0.45	−0.16	0.29	0.41
crustacean	Acanthocyclops viridis	F	0.66	−0.13	0.53	0.63
		M	0.73	−0.14	0.60	0.69
	Macrocyclops albidus	F	0.78	−0.20	0.57	0.73
		M	0.77	−0.13	0.64	0.74
	Acanthocyclops vernalis	F	0.83	−0.14	0.69	0.80
		M	0.86	−0.24	0.62	0.80
insect	Drosophila willistoni	M	0.63	−0.26	0.37	0.57
		F	0.63	−0.15	0.48	0.59
	Drosophila equinoxialis	M	0.70	−0.12	0.58	0.67
		F	0.70	−0.16	0.54	0.66
	Drosophila pseudoobscura	M	0.62	−0.3	0.32	0.55
		F	0.62	−0.3	0.32	0.55
	Drosophila persimilis	M	0.59	−0.19	0.4	0.54
		F	0.59	−0.17	0.42	0.55
	Drosophila melanogaster	n.a.	0.81	−0.17	0.64	0.77
	Chaoborus flavicans	n.a.	0.53	−0.46	0.07	0.42
	Lucilia illustris	n.a.	0.63	0.05	0.68	0.64
	Chorthippus brunneus	F	0.73	0.41	1.15	0.84
	Omocestus viridulus	F	0.11	0.18	0.29	0.15
	Myrmeleotettix maculatus	F	0.43	0.31	0.75	0.51
	Stenobothrus lineatus	F	0.57	0.33	0.90	0.66
amphibian	Rana sylvatica	n.a.	1	−0.86	0.14	0.79