The Time Invariance Principle, the absence of ecological chaos, and a fundamental pitfall of discrete modeling

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 287-292

  Deng, Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Beverton Holt model; Differential equations; Discrete modeling; Ecological chaos; Ecological stability; Holling's disc function; Logistic Equation; Logistic Map; One Life Rule; Time Invariance Principle

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ECOLOGY; INVARIANCE;

DISCRETE MODELING; ECOLOGICAL CHAOS; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; HOLLING'S DISC FUNCTION; LOGISTIC EQUATION; TIME INVARIANCE PRINCIPLE;

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EQUATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LOGISTICS; MAPPING METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 46549086783     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.03.013     Document Type: Article

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