On the coexistence of three microbial populations competing for two complementary substrates in configurations of interconnected chemostats

Mathematical Biosciences

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 87-102

  Thomopoulos, N A ^a   Vayenas, D V ^a   Pavlou, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CHEMOSTAT; COMPETITION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIOLOGY; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA; KINETICS; LINEAR MODELS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0345320394     PISSN: 00255564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-5564(98)10047-0     Document Type: Article

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