| Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 13, Iss. 3, Jul, 2009, pp. 311-326 @2009 Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences Chaos and Predictability in Population Dynamics Abstract: This article reviews recent case studies that demonstrate with the use
of mathematical simulations some ecological consequences of the competition between
chaos and other, non-chaotic types of population dynamics. Specifically, the results
obtained testify that competition between different dynamical regimes can make
predictability of the population dynamics more complicated than that of chaotic
population dynamics. In the case where the structure of the basins of attraction
to each of the competing dynamical regimes is fractal, estimation of the horizon
of predictability can even lose its significance. Keywords: chaos, predictability, population dynamics |