Experimental demonstration of chaos in a microbial food web

Lutz Becks, Frank M. Hilker, Horst Malchow, Klaus Jürgens and Hartmut Arndt ()
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Lutz Becks: University of Cologne
Frank M. Hilker: University of Osnabrück
Horst Malchow: University of Osnabrück
Klaus Jürgens: Max Planck Institute for Limnology
Hartmut Arndt: University of Cologne

Nature, 2005, vol. 435, issue 7046, 1226-1229

Abstract: It's chaos out there There is intense debate on the extent to which the behaviour of natural systems is chaotic. Epidemics, heart attacks and food web interactions display chaotic dynamics, but a real-life experimental tool with which to study the role of chaos has been elusive. Now a continuous culture system containing a protozoan predator and two coexisting prey bacteria has been developed for the analysis of the different facets of behaviour on the edge of chaos.

Date: 2005
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