Why chaos is rarely observed in natural populations

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1933-1939

  Upadhyay, Ranjit Kumar ^a   Rai, Vikas ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

NATURAL POPULATIONS;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 0031382090     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(97)00076-3     Document Type: Article

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