Citation: Patrick De Leenheer, Martin Schuster, Hal Smith. Strong cooperation or tragedy of the commons in the chemostat[J]. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2019, 16(1): 139-149. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2019007
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