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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

Hua Nie 1, and  Feng-Bin Wang 2,

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.
Keywords: allelopathy, unstirred chemostat., Harmful algae, spatial heterogeneity, nutrient recycling.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B40, 35K57; Secondary: 92D2.
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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F. Belgacem, Elliptic Boundary Value Problems with Indefinite Weights: Variational Formulations of the Principal Eigenvalue and Applications, Addison-Wesley Longman, Harlow, UK, 1997.  Google Scholar

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M. G. Crandall and P. H. Rabinowitz, Bifurcation from simple eigenvalues, J. Functional Analysis, 8 (1971), 321-340. doi: 10.1016/0022-1236(71)90015-2.  Google Scholar

[3]

E. N. Dancer, On the indices of fixed points of mappings in cones and applications, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 91 (1983), 131-151. doi: 10.1016/0022-247X(83)90098-7.  Google Scholar

[4]

E. N. Dancer, On positive solutions of some pairs of differential equations, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 284 (1984), 729-743. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9947-1984-0743741-4.  Google Scholar

[5]

E. N. Dancer and Y. Du, Positive solutions for a three-species competition system with diffusion, Part I, General existence results, Nonlinear Anal., 24 (1995), 337-357. doi: 10.1016/0362-546X(94)E0063-M.  Google Scholar

[6]

Y. Du, Positive periodic solutions of a competitor-competitor-mutualist model, Differential Integral Equations, 9 (1996), 1043-1066.  Google Scholar

[7]

J. P. Grover, Resource Competition, Chapman and Hall, London, 1997. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4615-6397-6.  Google Scholar

[8]

J. P. Grover, K. W. Crane, J. W. Baker, B. W. Brooks and D. L. Roelke, Spatial variation of harmful algae and their toxins in flowing-water habitats: A theoretical exploration, Journal of Plankton Research, 33 (2011), 211-227. doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbq070.  Google Scholar

[9]

J. K. Hale, Asymptotic Behavior of Dissipative Systems, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 25, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1988.  Google Scholar

[10]

S. B. Hsu, S. Hubbell and P. Waltman, A mathematical theory for single-nutrient competition in continuous cultures of micro-organisms, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 32 (1977), 366-383. doi: 10.1137/0132030.  Google Scholar

[11]

S. B. Hsu and P. Waltman, On a system of reaction-diffusion equations arising from competition in an un-stirred chemostat, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 53 (1993), 1026-1044. doi: 10.1137/0153051.  Google Scholar

[12]

I. P. Martines, H. V. Kojouharov and J. P. Grover, A chemostat model of resource competition and allelopathy, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 215 (2009), 573-582. doi: 10.1016/j.amc.2009.05.033.  Google Scholar

[13]

I. P. Martines, H. V. Kojouharov and J. P. Grover, Nutrient recycling and allelopathy in a gradostat, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 66 (2013), 1613-1626. doi: 10.1016/j.camwa.2013.02.005.  Google Scholar

[14]

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[15]

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H. L. Smith, Monotone Dynamical Systems: An Introduction to the Theory of Competitive and Cooperative Systems, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 41, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1995.  Google Scholar

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H. L. Smith and P. Waltman, The Theory of the Chemostat, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511530043.  Google Scholar

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H. L. Smith and X.-Q. Zhao, Robust persistence for semidynamical systems, Nonlinear Anal., 47 (2001), 6169-6179. doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(01)00678-2.  Google Scholar

[22]

J. P. Shi and X. F. Wang, On global bifurcation for quasilinear elliptic systems on bounded domains, J. Differential Equations, 246 (2009), 2788-2812. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2008.09.009.  Google Scholar

[23]

H. R. Thieme, Convergence results and a Poincare-Bendixson trichotomy for asymptotically autonomous differential equations, J. Math. Biol., 30 (1992), 755-763. doi: 10.1007/BF00173267.  Google Scholar

[24]

M. X. Wang, Nonlinear Parabolic Equations (in Chinese), Science Press, Beijing, 1993. Google Scholar

[25]

J. H. Wu, Global bifurcation of coexistence state for the competition model in the chemostat, Nonlinear Anal., 39 (2000), 817-835. doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(98)00250-8.  Google Scholar

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Y. Yamada, Stability of steady states for prey-predator diffusion equations with homogeneous Dirichlet conditions, SIAM J. Math. 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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