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Derived from the Monod-model and regulating principles a regulation model of the rotifer development in chemostats was developed. The model was validated in continuous cultures of Brachionus angularis both in steady-states, when undisturbed, and in transient-states after perturbations by step changes of dilution rate or input substrate concentration. Simulations of the simple model monotonically approached steady-states, but cultures show overshoots and damped oscillations before reaching this state. After introducing time-lags into the model it depends on the size of the time lag if model rotifer densities reach stable steady-state values (at low time lags) or stable limit cycles with periodic oscillations (at high time lags). At even higher time lags chaotic conditions occur in the model with final extinction of the rotifers.
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Walz, N. (1993). Model simulations of continuous rotifer cultures. In: Gilbert, J.J., Lubzens, E., Miracle, M.R. (eds) Rotifer Symposium VI. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1606-0_22
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