Evolution of total dust injection rates for AGB stars and SNe, the AGB and SNe rates, the SFR, and the metallicity. Results are shown for M_ini = 1.3 × 10¹² M_⊙ (first column), 5 × 10¹¹ M_⊙ (second column), 1 × 10¹¹ M_⊙ (third column), and 5 × 10¹⁰ M_⊙ (fourth column). The solid, dotted, dashed, dashed-dotted, and dashed-dot-dotted lines represent the Salpeter, mass-heavy, top-heavy, Larson 1, and Larson 2 IMF, respectively. First row: total SN dust injection rates E_d,SN(t) for a “low” (black lines), “high” (blue lines), and “maximum” (green lines) SN efficiency ϵ_i(m), and AGB dust injection rates E_d,AGB(t) (red lines). SN dust injection rates are only shown for a Salpeter (solid) and a Larson 2 (dashed-dot-dotted) IMF. Second row: SNe rates R_SN(t) (black lines) and AGB rates R_AGB(t) (red lines). SN rates are only shown for a Salpeter (solid), mass-heavy (dotted), and a Larson 2 (dashed-dot-dotted) IMF. Third row: evolution of the SFR. The blue area marks the region between a SFR of 100–1000 M_⊙ yr^-1. Fourth row: evolution of the metallicity Z(t). The green regions mark a metallicity between 1–2 Z_⊙ (light green), 2–3 Z_⊙ (dark green), 3–4 Z_⊙ (grass green). The grey vertical dashed lines indicate epochs at 400 and 500 Myr after the onset of starburst.