Fig. 1From: Assumptions on decision making and environment can yield multiple steady states in microbial community modelsCultivation systems and their implications for metabolically stationary state conditions. For definitions of mathematical variables, see Section Methods. a Chemostat as an open system in steady state. Black: time-constant entities; bold arrows: flows; normal arrows: metabolic fluxes; rounded rectangle: cell. b Dynamics in batch cultivation of cells with a phase of metabolically stationary state (constant specific growth rate, implying linear increase of the logarithm of the species concentration, insensitive to external concentrations) between dashed vertical lines. c Metabolically stationary state in the closed batch system (time-constant entities in black)Back to article page