Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Abstract

Mathematically, chaotic dynamics are not devoid of order but display episodes of near-cyclic temporal patterns. This is illustrated, in interesting ways, in the case of chaotic biological populations. Despite the individual nature of organisms and the noisy nature of biological time series, subtle temporal patterns have been detected. By using data drawn from chaotic insect populations, we show quantitatively that chaos manifests itself as a tapestry of identifiable and predictable patterns woven together by stochasticity. We show too that the mixture of patterns an experimentalist can expect to see depends on the scale of the system under study.

Journal Title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volume

101

Issue

1

First Page

408

Last Page

413

DOI

10.1073/pnas.2237266100

First Department

Mathematics

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