| Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 15, Iss. 4, Oct, 2011, pp. 455-464 @2011 Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences Spatial Effects and Turing Instabilities in the Invasive Species Model Abstract: This paper demonstrates that a recently proposed dynamical model for the
ecology of Easter Island admits periodic and chaotic attractors, not previously
reported. Such behavior may more realistically depict the population dynamics of
general ecosystems and illustrates the power of simple models to produce the kind
of complex behavior that is ubiquitous in such systems. Keywords: diffusion, Turing instability, Easter Island |