Hierarchical population model with a carrying capacity distribution for bacterial biofilms

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 6 1, 2003, Pages 619041-6190410

  Indekeu, J O ^a   Sznajd Weron, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; FRACTALS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUTRITION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY;

CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE (CLSM); DIFFUSION LIMITED AGGREGATION (DLA);

BIOFILMS;

EID: 1442304239     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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