Figure 3.

(a) Population dynamics C. heintzii (▴) in relation to cell number during competition for glucose with E. coli in a glucose-limited continuous culture at a dilution rate of 0.075 h⁻¹ with a glucose feed of 50 mg carbon per litre at 30 °C. For comparison, the theoretical wash-in curve is shown assuming a lag phase of 7 h. (b) Prediction of competition for glucose for a mixed culture of C. heintzii (▴) and E. coli in a glucose-limited continuous culture at a dilution rate of 0.075 h⁻¹. The fits for the different s_min are shown, namely for s_min=18.0 μg l⁻¹ () from Kovárová et al. (1996) and for s_min=34.9 μg l⁻¹ (—), a value obtained by parameter estimation.