The Consumer-Resource Relationship: Mathematical Modeling

Claude Lobry

ISBN 10: 1786300443 / ISBN 13: 9781786300447

Published by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2018

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BIC Classification: PSVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666. . 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Consumer-Resource Relationship: Mathematical Modeling
• Publisher: ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786300443
• ISBN 13: 9781786300447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Claude Lobry is a former Professor at both the University of Bordeaux and the University of Nice in France. His present research interests are the mathematical theory of "nonstandard" differential systems and mathematical modeling of population dynamics.