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We now turn to one of the simplifications of the 30,654 variable computer simulation model. Donald Ludwig, of the Mathematics Department, university of British Columbia, after hearing a non-mathematical presentation of the budworm-forest simulation research, captured the basic dynamics of the system in a system of three differential equations, using only three variables! With contributions from Dixon Jones, also a mathematician at U.B.C. and the ecologist CS. Holling, this evolved into an insightful model.
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Tuchinsky, P.M. (1981). The Ludwig-Jones-Holling Differential Equations Model. In: Man in Competition with the Spruce Budworm. The UMAP Expository Monograph Series. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6780-0_2
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