The red dots from the figure 1A correspond to the daily respiration rate of the three numerical metazoans present in the model. These values (1.18e-2, 8.39e-3 and 5.94e-3 mmol C mmol C-1 d-1) are well within the range of respiration rate given by the literature. The values of nitrogen excretion (6.08e-2 ,  4.96e-2 and 4.05e-2 mmol N mmol C-1 d-1) found in the Figure1B  seems to be sligthly over the main rage of values found in the literature. This can be due to the fact that we calibrated to allometric excretion rate until we obtained realistic time of lipid accumulation for at least one of our metazoan. Nevertheless, these values are still within the range of observed excretion rates.