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Tables of Contents for Chaos in Ecology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Preface
xii
Introduction
1
26
What Is Chaos?
4
2
Bifurcations and Chaos
6
11
The Hunt for Chaos
17
4
Mathematical Models and Data
21
6
Models
27
54
The Deterministic LPA Model
29
7
The Flour Beetle
36
5
Dynamics of the LPA Model
41
5
A Stochastic LPA Model
46
7
Parameter Estimation
53
5
Model Validation
58
4
Model Fit
59
1
Prediction Fit
60
2
Predicted Dynamics
62
15
Deterministic Dynamics
63
4
Stochastic Dynamics
67
10
Concluding Remarks
77
4
Bifurcations
81
20
A Bifurcation Experiment
81
10
The Experimental Design
84
1
Parameterization
85
3
Model Evaluation
88
3
The Experimental Results
91
7
Concluding Remarks
98
3
Chaos
101
46
A Route-to-Chaos
102
5
Demographic Variability
107
5
Analysis of the Experiment
112
31
Parameter Estimation
113
7
Model Evaluation
120
3
Population Dynamics
123
15
Transients and Effects of Stochasticity
138
5
Concluding Remarks
143
4
Patterns in Chaos
147
26
Sensitivity to Initial Conditions
149
4
Temporal Patterns
153
6
Lattice Effects
159
12
Concluding Remarks
171
2
What We Learned
173
10
BIBLIOGRAPHY
183
12
APPENDIX
195
28
A The Desharnais Experiment
195
1
B The Bifurcation Experiment
196
17
C The Chaos Experiment
213
10
Index
223