Quasi-steady uptake and bacterial community assembly in a mathematical model of soil-phosphorus mobility

• We create a simple three-species model of phosphorus and carbon uptake. show how nutrient dynamics can manifest as bacterial plant community shifts. under sufficient supply, additional benefits bacteria with satiation in the plants. theoretically predict experimental reassembly results between species. Under certain parameter regimes, population oscillations occur has been observed literature. mathematically uptake by soil consisting two groups: copiotrophs oligotrophs. Four equilibrium states emerge, one for each species monopolising resource dominating coexistence all that are controlled ratio chemical adsorption to death permitting either oscillatory or quasi-steady steady state emerge which content unresponsive increased fertilization. However, fertilization supports leading reassembly. Our demonstrate importance time-series measurements experiments.