The Theory of the Chemostat: Dynamics of Microbial Competition.

Douglas C. Speirs, Hal L. Smith, Paul Waltman

Journal of Applied Ecology · 1996 · 749 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

1. The simple chemostat 2. The general chemostat 3. Competition on three trophic levels 4. The chemostat with an inhibitor 5. The simple gradostat 6. The general gradostat 7. The chemostat with periodic washout rate 8. Variable yield models 9. A size-structured competition model 10. New directions 11. Open questions Appendix A. Matrices and their eigenvalues Appendix B. Differential inequalities Appendix C. Monotone systems Appendix D. Persistence Appendix E. Some techniques in nonlinear analysis Appendix F. A convergence theorem.