Lobry, Claude
The Consumer-Resource Relationship: Mathematical Modeling
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.
- Författare
- Lobry, Claude
- Utgivare
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Utgivningsår
- 2018
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 274 sidor
- Kategori
- Trädgård, Jordbruk, Gårdsbruk
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781119544012
- Tryckt ISBN
- 9781786300447