Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Analysis of Microbial Communities

The competition of microbial communities with three species (Burkholderia cepacia, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aerugi-nosa) is modelled by chemostat-like equations incorporating additional features as, e.g. a second metabolite, the possibility of direct inter-specific competition and the appearance of an inhibiting toxin or antibi-otic. Coexistence results for the reduced Burkholderia–Staphylococcus model have been obtained [29].The full three-species-dynamics will be investigated theoretically and experimentally.