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As we see from the previous chapter, the models of exploitative competition in a well-stirred chemostat operated under constant input and dilution, with competition for a nonreproducing substrate, predict that at most one competitor population avoids extinction. However, the coexistence of competing populations is obvious in nature, and so in order to explain this, it seems necessary to relax at least one of the assumptions in these models. One natural approach is to introduce periodic coefficients to represent, for example, daily or seasonal variations in the environment.
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Zhao, XQ. (2003). N-Species Competition in a Periodic Chemostat. In: Dynamical Systems in Population Biology. Canadian Mathematical Society / Société mathématique du Canada. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21761-1_5
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