Effect of resource enrichment on a chemostat community of bacteria and bacteriophage

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2303-2315

  Bohannan, Brendan J M ^a   Lenski, Richard E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage T4; Escherichia coli; Population dynamics; Predation; Prey dependent model; Ratio dependent models; Resource enrichment

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI B;

EID: 0031401197     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[2303:EOREOA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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