question archive From coexistence to competition: Cyanobacteria and diatoms coexist under default conditions in the chemostat
From coexistence to competition: Cyanobacteria and diatoms coexist under default conditions in the chemostat
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- From coexistence to competition: Cyanobacteria and diatoms coexist under default conditions in the chemostat. Under what conditions are cyanobacteria likely to outcompete diatoms? Under what conditions might diatoms outcompete cyanobacteria?
- Discuss some hypotheses. What conditions do you think are needed to achieve your goal? Decide on one or a few approaches that you want to test. Make sure to explain why you think they might work.
Turn your hypothesis into specific methods. Answer these questions (in writing!):
- What will be the initial conditions in your chemostat (input level of each nutrient, number of starting cells of each species, death rate)?
- What conditions, if any, will you change during the simulation? Will you change nutrient inputs or death rates? Add or remove algae? When, and how much?
- What results will you monitor? How will you know if you have achieved your goal?
- The outcome of any given simulation depends partly on random processes. How many times will you need to repeat your result in order to feel confident that it happens consistently?
- What data (values of variables, graphs, pictures, tables, etc) will you need to gather in order to provide convincing evidence when you write about your experiments?
- What baseline / default / control conditions will you compare your experimental conditions to?
