Alain Rapaport ; Denis Dochain ; Jérôme Harmand
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Practical coexistence in the chemostat with arbitrarily close growth functions
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Revue Africaine de Recherche en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées,
September 13, 2008,
Volume 9, 2007 Conference in Honor of Claude Lobry, 2008
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https://doi.org/10.46298/arima.1900
Practical coexistence in the chemostat with arbitrarily close growth functionsArticle
We show that the coexistence of different species in competition for a common resource may be substantially long when their growth functions are arbitrarily closed. The transient behavior is analyzed in terms of slow-fast dynamics. We prove that non-dominant species can first increase before decreasing, depending on their initial proportions.