Figure 5.

Steady‐state outcomes of the competition experiments. Solid lines show the outcome of the competition experiments between the cyanobacterium Synechocystis (blue line) and the green alga Chlorella (green line) predicted by the model, as function of the relative contribution of red and blue light. Dashed lines indicate the steady‐state biomass predicted in monoculture. Symbols show the observed steady‐state biomass of Synechocystis (blue triangle) and Chlorella (green diamonds) in the competition experiments. This steady‐state biomass was calculated as the average biomass ± SD of the last six data points in each pair of experiments (i.e., n = 12) in Fig. 4. Parameter values of the model are listed in Appendix S1: Table S1.