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Extinction and uniform persistence in a microbial food web with mycoloop: limiting behavior of a population model with parasitic fungi

  • Received: 04 November 2018 Accepted: 05 November 2018 Published: 24 December 2018
  • It is recently known that parasites provide a better picture of an ecosystem, gaining attention in theoretical ecology. Parasitic fungi belong to a food chain between zooplankton and inedible phytoplankton, called mycoloop. We consider a chemostat model that incorporates a single mycoloop, and analyze the limiting behavior of solutions, adding to previous work on steady-state analysis. By way of persistence theory, we establish that a given species survives depending on the food web configuration and the nutrient level. Moreover, we conclude that the model predicts coexistence under bounded nutrient levels.

    Citation: Alexis Erich S. Almocera, Sze-Bi Hsu, Polly W. Sy. Extinction and uniform persistence in a microbial food web with mycoloop: limiting behavior of a population model with parasitic fungi[J]. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2019, 16(1): 516-537. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2019024

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  • It is recently known that parasites provide a better picture of an ecosystem, gaining attention in theoretical ecology. Parasitic fungi belong to a food chain between zooplankton and inedible phytoplankton, called mycoloop. We consider a chemostat model that incorporates a single mycoloop, and analyze the limiting behavior of solutions, adding to previous work on steady-state analysis. By way of persistence theory, we establish that a given species survives depending on the food web configuration and the nutrient level. Moreover, we conclude that the model predicts coexistence under bounded nutrient levels.


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