About Debber

Inferred trait values incorporate information from the DEB Add-my-Pet collection. Only species with typified models std, abj, stx, stf. Version 20200514 (2006 entries).

	The method used to infer trait values is described in Bruggeman, Heringa, Brandt (2009) PhyloPars: estimation of missing parameter values using phylogeny. Nucleic Acids Research 37 (Web Server issue): W179-84. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp370.
	The underlying taxonomic data comes from the Catalogue of Life.

Development of this web service was made possible by a range of projects:

• A NWO-funded PhD on phytoplankton modelling at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2004-2009)
• An NWO Rubicon fellowship at the University of Oxford (2009-2011)
• A Junior Research Fellowship at St. John's College, Oxford (2009-2013)
• The NERC/Defra funded Marine Ecosystems Research Programme (2014-2019)
• A Syngenta-funded project on DEB modelling of freshwater bivalves (2018-2019)