Testing Metabolic Theories

Testing metabolic theories.

Metabolism is the process by which individual organisms acquire energy and materials from their environment and use them for maintenance, differentiation, growth, and reproduction. There has been a recent push to build an individual-based metabolic underpinning into ecological theory-that is, a metabolic theory of ecology. However, the two main theories of individual metabolism that have been a...

Metabolic theories in ecology.

The Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) and the earlier theory of Dynamic Energy Budgets (DEB) are both founded on simple mechanistic descriptions of how individual organisms take up and use energy and material. Such descriptions should enable predictions to be made of pools and flows of energy and matter in populations, communities and ecosystems. MTE builds on the idea that the transport of res...

Testing Ten Theories

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Testing Theories of Happiness

Happiness research in economics takes reported subjective well-being as a proxy measure for utility and has already provided many interesting insights about human well-being and its determinants. We argue that future research on happiness in economics has a lot of potential, but that it needs to be guided more by theory. We propose two ways to test theories of happiness, and illustrate them wit...

Testing theories of developmental dyscalculia