Table 1.

Results of constrained model fitting, which entailed estimating the parameters below simultaneously by fitting equations (3.3)–(3.6) to the following datasets: daily respiration, daily gross primary production, temperature and community size structure (see §5). The constrained models were estimated using Bayesian model fitting.

parameter	units	estimate	95% credible interval
EP	eV	0.381	0.291–0.488
ER	eV	0.588	0.507–0.680
α	n.a.	0.426	0.385–0.464
	g1−α d−1	−12.795	−13.895 to −11.799
	g1−α d−1	−13.202	−14.296 to −12.156
	g1−α d−1	−7.199	−8.798 to −6.413