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The consumer-resource relationship : mathematical modeling / Claude Lobry.

By: Lobry, C. (Claude) [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Chemical engineering series (ISTE Ltd)Chemostat and bioprocesses set: v. 2.Publisher: London : Hoboken, NJ : ISTE Ltd. ; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781119544029; 1119544025; 9781119544012; 1119544017.Subject(s): Population biology -- Mathematical models | Predation (Biology) -- Mathematical models | Chemostat -- Mathematical models | Biomathematics | NATURE / Ecology | NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness | SCIENCE / Environmental Science | SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology | Biomathematics | Chemostat -- Mathematical models | Population biology -- Mathematical models | Predation (Biology) -- Mathematical modelsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 577.88 Online resources: Wiley Online Library Summary: Better known as the "predator-prey relationship," the consumer-resource relationship means the situation where a single species of organisms consumes for survival and reproduction. For example, Escherichia coli consumes glucose, cows consume grass, cheetahs consume baboons; these three very different situations, the first concerns the world of bacteria and the resource is a chemical species, the second concerns mammals and the resource is a plant, and in the final case the consumer and the resource are mammals, have in common the fact of consuming. In a chemostat, microorganisms generally consume (abiotic) minerals, but not always, bacteriophages consume bacteria that constitute a biotic resource. 'The Chemostat' book dealt only with the case of abiotic resources. Mathematically this amounts to replacing in the two equation system of the chemostat the decreasing function by a general increasing then decreasing function. This simple change has greatly enriched the theory. This book shows in this new framework the problem of competition for the same resource.
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Better known as the "predator-prey relationship," the consumer-resource relationship means the situation where a single species of organisms consumes for survival and reproduction. For example, Escherichia coli consumes glucose, cows consume grass, cheetahs consume baboons; these three very different situations, the first concerns the world of bacteria and the resource is a chemical species, the second concerns mammals and the resource is a plant, and in the final case the consumer and the resource are mammals, have in common the fact of consuming. In a chemostat, microorganisms generally consume (abiotic) minerals, but not always, bacteriophages consume bacteria that constitute a biotic resource. 'The Chemostat' book dealt only with the case of abiotic resources. Mathematically this amounts to replacing in the two equation system of the chemostat the decreasing function by a general increasing then decreasing function. This simple change has greatly enriched the theory. This book shows in this new framework the problem of competition for the same resource.

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