Remarkable technological advances have revealed ever more properties and behaviours of
individual microorganisms, but the novel data generated by these techniques have not yet …

Macroscopic models of soil organic matter (SOM) turnover have faced difficulties in
reproducing SOM dynamics or in predicting the spatial distribution of carbon stocks. These …

In many practical geochemical systems that are at the center of providing indispensable
energy, resources and service to our society,(bio) geochemical reactions are coupled with …

Modeling has become an important tool for widening our understanding of microbial growth
in the context of applied microbiology and related to such processes as safe food …

Over the last decades, a new generation of microscale models has been developed to
simulate soil microbial activity. An earlier article (Pot et al., 2021) presented a detailed …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a main mechanism of bacterial evolution endowing
bacteria with new genetic traits. The transfer of mobile genetic elements such as plasmids …

Biogeochemical processes are of tremendous importance for determining the fate of many
organic and inorganic compounds in the subsurface. Most global elemental cycles involve …

Chemotaxis 1 and auto-chemotaxis are key mechanisms in the dynamics of micro-
organisms, eg in the acquisition of nutrients and in the communication between individuals …

In this letter we present a Keller–Segel model with logistic growth dynamics arising in the
study of chemotactic pattern formation. We prove the existence of a minimum wave speed for …

Microbial degradation is an important process in many environments controlling for instance
the cycling of nutrients or the biodegradation of contaminants. At high substrate …