Figure 3. Competition outcomes observed with two competing QS agent populations (filled and non-filled circles).

A) Stable, mixed community of two species (colocalization). Both types of cells are in the active, swarming state. B) Winning. The winner population forms a stable, swarming community (filled cells on top) while the loosing species (non-filled cells, near the starting position) will form a small community that will either stagnate in the solitary state, or die out, depending on the nutrients available. C1) Segregating populations. The species indicated with filled-dots is nearer to the resources, i.e. to the region of intact nutrients. C2) Patch-wise (mosaic-like) segregation. In the dfferent patches, either one or the other species is nearer to the resources.