TABLE 3.

Parameters table

Symbol	Value	Units	Parameter
Individual growth
M	Variable	g	Asymptotic size
η	0.25	–	Ratio between M and m*
m*	ηM	g	Maturation size
f 0	0.5	–	Initial feeding level
γ	538	g−q m3 year−1	Factor for search volume
α	0.6	–	Assimilation efficiency
h	85	g1− n year−1	Maximum food intake
n	0.75	–	Exponent for max. food intake
p	0.75	–	Exponent for standard metabolism
ks	4	–	Factor for standard metabolism
β	100	–	Preferred predator‐prey mass ratio
σ	1	–	Width of the feeding kernel
q	0.8	–	Exponent of search volume
Reproduction
m 0	0.1	mg	Offspring mass
ε	1	–	Efficiency of offspring production
u	7	–	Width of maturation transition
Mortality
ξ	0.1	–	Fraction of energy reserves
μ 0	2	g1‐ n year−1	Background mortality
se max	1	g1‐ n year−1	Upper limit for senescence mortality
se min	0.1	g1‐ n year−1	Lower limit for senescence mortality
str	0.1	year−1	Starvation mortality cost
θ	Variable	–	Interaction matrix species‐specific value
Resource spectrum
κ	0.05	gλ−1 m−3	Magnitude of resource spectrum
λ	2 − n + q	–	Slope of resource spectrum
r 0	4	g1‐p year−1	Regeneration rate of resources
m cut	1	g	Upper limit of resources spectrum
Evolution
χ	0.001	–	Phenotype's introduction probability
Ω	10−30	Individual/m3	Extinction threshold
	5%	–	Fraction of initial phenotype's abundance
	+−20%	–	Magnitude of trait evolution

M is noted "variable" as it is species specific (values in Table 1). η starts at 0.25 for all species but will evolve during the simulations. Parameters values are taken from Hartvig et al. (2011). The value from γ was calculated from: $\gamma =h\frac{f_0}{\sqrt{(2\pi )\sigma {\beta }^{\lambda ‐2}{e}^{({(\lambda ‐2)}^2{\sigma }^2/2)}\kappa (1‐f_0)}}$ (Hartvig et al., 2011). Initial values for the abundance density N(m) of each species at t = 0 were based on the equilibrium equation: $N=\frac{\kappa }{1000}{M}^{\left(2n‐q‐2+0.35\right)}{m}^{\left(‐n‐0.35\right)}$ provided in Andersen and Beyer (2006).