Chaotic populations (1974)

Nicolas Bacaër ()
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Chapter Chapter 24 in A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics, 2011, pp 133-140 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In 1974 Robert May, an Australian physicist turned ecologist, studied the discrete-time logistic equation as a model for population dynamics. He noticed that unexpected bifurcations occurred and that the asymptotic behaviour could even be chaotic. So long-term predictions can be impossible even with a simple deterministic model. May’s article was one of those that launched “chaos theory”.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_24

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