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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Volume 2012, Article ID 843735, 25 pages doi:10.1155/2012/843735 Research Article Dynamic Behaviors in a Droop Model for Phytoplankton Growth in a Chemostat with Nutrient Periodically Pulsed Input Kai Wang,1 Zhidong Teng,2 and Xueliang Zhang1 1 Department of Medical Engineering and Technology, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830054, China 2 College of Mathematics and System Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China Correspondence should be addressed to Kai Wang, wangkaimath@ Received 23 December 2011; Accepted 20 March 2012 Academic Editor: Xue He Copyright q 2012 Kai Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The dynamic behaviors in a droop model for phytoplankton growth in a chemostat with nutrient periodically pulsed input are studied. A series of new criteria on the boundedness, permanence, extinction, existence of positive periodic solution and global attractivity for the model are established. Finally, an example is given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the results in this paper. 1. Introduction The chemostat is a very important apparatus used to study the growth of microorganisms in a continuous cultured environment in a laboratory see 1. It may be viewed as a laboratory model of a simple lake with continuous stirring. Chemostat models have attracted widely the attention of the scientific community, since they have a wide range of applications, for example, waste-water treatment, production by genetically altered organisms like production of insulin, and so forth.