The chemostat is a basic piece of laboratory apparatus, yet it has begun to occupy an
increasingly central role in ecological studies. The ecological environment created by a …

Population dynamics is an important subject in mathematical biology. A central problem is to
study the long-term behavior of modeling systems. Most of these systems are governed by …

As one of the most quantitative of ecological subdisciplines, resource competition is an
important, central area of ecology. Recently research into this area has increased …

Species exhibit various trade‐offs that can result in stable coexistence of competitors. The
gleaner–opportunist trade‐off to fluctuations in resource abundance is one of the most …

Populations of microorganisms inhabiting a common environment compete for nutrients and
other resources of the environment. In some cases, the populations even excrete into the …

Many studies in population ecology and competition theory are based on models in which
the consumption rate of a resource is some function of resource availability and in which the …

Light is an essential resource for phytoplankton and fluctuates on a wide range of
timescales. To understand how light fluctuations affect phytoplankton community structure …

In its simplest form, the chemostat consists of several populations of microorganisms
competing for a single limiting nutrient. If the input concentration of nutrient and the washout …

A model of the competition of n species for a single essential periodically fluctuating nutrient
is considered. Instead of the familiar Michaelis-Menten kinetics for nutrient uptake, we …

An ordinary differential equation model of two species competing for a single essential
nutrient in a periodic environment is studied. Coexistence of the two species is …