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September  2015, 20(7): 2129-2155. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.2129

## Competition for one nutrient with recycling and allelopathy in an unstirred chemostat

 1 College of Mathematics and Information Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710119, China 2 Department of Natural Science in the Center for General Education, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan 333

Received  August 2014 Revised  January 2015 Published  July 2015

In this paper, we study a PDE model of two species competing for a single limiting nutrient resource in a chemostat in which one microbial species excretes a toxin that increases the mortality of another. Our goal is to understand the role of spatial heterogeneity and allelopathy in blooms of harmful algae. We first demonstrate that the two-species system and its single species subsystem satisfy a mass conservation law that plays an important role in our analysis. We investigate the possibilities of bistability and coexistence for the two-species system by appealing to the method of topological degree in cones and the theory of uniform persistence. Numerical simulations confirm the theoretical results.
Citation: Hua Nie, Feng-Bin Wang. Competition for one nutrient with recycling and allelopathy in an unstirred chemostat. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2015, 20 (7) : 2129-2155. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2015.20.2129
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Anal., 21 (1990), 327-345. doi: 10.1137/0521018.  Google Scholar [27] X.-Q. Zhao, Dynamical Systems in Population Biology, Springer, New York, 2003. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-21761-1.  Google Scholar
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