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Mortality can produce predictable dynamics in chaotic populations
Author(s) -
GonzalezAndujar J. L.,
Perry J. N.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
ecological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1440-1703
pISSN - 0912-3814
DOI - 10.1007/bf02529459
Subject(s) - chaotic , biological dispersal , statistical physics , simple (philosophy) , dynamics (music) , biological system , computer science , dispersion (optics) , econometrics , ecology , biology , mathematics , physics , population , artificial intelligence , demography , philosophy , epistemology , sociology , acoustics , optics
Abstract Recent theoretical studies have pointed out that a relatively small degree of dispersion between chaotic subpopulations produces predictable, simple dynamics and severely reduces the frequency of the occurrene of chaos. In this paper, we show that the introduction of mortality to models which are initially chaotic, alone or combined with dispersal, can produce similar effects.