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Title Multiple steady-state in phytoplankton population induced by photoinhibition

Name Sze-Bi Hsu
Country Taiwan
Email sbhsu@math.nthu.edu.tw
Co-Author(s) Yihong Du, Yuan Lou
Submit Time 2014-02-23 07:48:30
Session
Special Session 24: Qualitative analysis of reaction diffusion systems
Contents
We study the eff ect of photo-inhibition in a non-local reaction-diff usion- advection equation, which models the dynamics of a single phytoplankton species in a water column where the growth of the species depends solely on light. Our results show that, in contrast to the case of no photo-inhibition, there might exist alternative stable steady-states for the persistence of a single phytoplankton species due to photo-inhibition.