Modelling spatial oscillations in soil borehole bacteria

M. J. McGuinness; L. B. Cribbin; H. F. Winstanley; A. C. Fowler

doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.08.017

Modelling spatial oscillations in soil borehole bacteria

M. J. McGuinness, L. B. Cribbin, H. F. Winstanley, A. C. Fowler

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Abstract

Spatial oscillations in groundwater contaminant concentrations can be successfully explained by consideration of a competitive microbial community in conditions of poor nutrient supply, in which the effects of spatial diffusion of the nutrient sources are included. In previous work we showed that the microbial competition itself allowed oscillations to occur, and, in common with other reaction-diffusion systems, the addition of spatial diffusion transforms these temporal oscillations into travelling waves, sometimes chaotic. We therefore suggest that irregular chemical profiles sometimes found in contaminant plume borehole profiles may be a consequence of this competition.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	74-79
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Theoretical Biology
Volume	363
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.08.017
Publication status	Published - 21 Dec 2014

Keywords

Groundwater contamination
Microbial competition
Spatial diffusion
Travelling waves

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