Global dynamics of a chemostat competition model with distributed delay

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 285-316

  Wolkowicz, Gail S K ^a   Xia, Huaxing ^a   Wu, Jianhong ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemostat; Competitive exclusion; Distributed delay; Global dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011689727     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002850050150     Document Type: Article

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