Controlling chaos in ecology: From deterministic to individual-based models

Authored by Marta Ginovart, D Lopez, RV Sole, JGP Gamarra

Date Published: 1999

DOI: 10.1006/bulm.1999.0141

Sponsors: DGYCIT

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Model Documentation: Other Narrative Mathematical description

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Abstract

The possibility of chaos control in biological systems has been stimulated by recent advances in the study of heart and brain tissue dynamics. More recently, some authors have conjectured that such a method might be applied to population dynamics and even play a nontrivial evolutionary role in ecology. In this paper we explore this idea by means of both mathematical and individual-based simulation models Because of the intrinsic noise linked to individual behavior, controlling a noisy system becomes more difficult but, as shown here, it is a feasible task allowed to be experimentally tested. (C) 1999 Society for Mathematical Biology.
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Dispersal systems complex dynamics Fluctuations Population-dynamics Extinction Communities Equations Attractors Unidimensional maps