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Chaos in Ecology: Is Mother Nature a Strange Attractor?
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We review the role of chaos and the study of chaos in ecology. We use sensitive dependence on initial conditions as the best heuristic definition of chaos. This definition forms the common theme for our review of approaches for demonstrating the importance of chaos in ecology. We emphasize that this
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hastings, A., Hom, C. L., Ellner, S., Turchin, P., & Godfray, H. C. J.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 1993-11
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-33
- ISSN
- 0066-4162 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2179763161
- Cited by
- 554
- References
- 86
- FWCI
- 32.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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