Competitive exclusion in a discrete-time, size-structured chemostat model

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 183-191

  Smith, H L ^a   Zmao, X Q ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemostat; Competitive exclusion; Discrete time; Size structured model

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942641474     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2001.1.183     Document Type: Article

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