Figure 5. Microscopic parameters in dependence of environmental particle densities (DPE).

(A) Time until replication of an initial triangle cell follows the regression function τ_{pre-replication}(DPE) = 1.3 · 10⁻¹⁷/DPE^16.58(fit to the observed medians of the pre-replication periods per analyzed DPE setting). (B) Initial triangle cells start to survive throughout 25,000 steps in a region of (0.03 ≤ DPE), at lower environmental densities they lose particles and die. (C) Initial spore configurations survive for this time in environmental particle densities of (DPE ≤ 0.032), at higher densities they grow out into cells. (D) Starting with a mature spore populations do not grow at densities below DPE = 0.032, with 0.032 ≤ DPE ≤ 0.046 initial cells mostly unsuccessfully reproduce and die, while with DPE ≥ 0.047 final populations (X) start to grow linear with increasing DPE: X_structures(DPE) = 73.88 · DPE-2.44 for DPE ≥ 0.047 (fit to the observed medians of the number of structures per analyzed DPE setting).