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Ernesto Villarreal, R.R. Canale, and Ziya Akcasu; Transport equations for a microbial predator-prey community. Microbial Ecology 3:131-142, 1977
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A transport equation is used which describes the temporal behaviour of interacting populations the individuals. The general theory is applied to the transient analysis of a microbial predator-prey system using an approximate model for the specific cell growth rate and multigroup formulism to approximate the mass distribution within the population. Experimental results in a Tetrahymena pyriformis-Aerobacter aerogenes system have been used to evaluate the group parameters and test the validity of the theoretical predictions.