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Measles as a Testbed for Characterising Nonlinear Behaviour in Ecology

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Chaos in Real Data

Part of the book series: Population and Community Biology Series ((PCBS,volume 27))

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Since the seminal article of May (1976), the search for chaos continues to exert a fascination for ecologists. An ideal system in which to carry out such a quest would provide long replicated time series, of observations uncomplicated by measurement error or process noise. This dynamicist’s paradise would also lend itself to accurate mechanistic modelling, at a variety of spatial scales. Finally (and less obvious), changes in the system’s parameters which alter nonlinear behaviour should be readily and independently measurable (and, even more ideally, manipulable).

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Grenfell, B.T. (2000). Measles as a Testbed for Characterising Nonlinear Behaviour in Ecology. In: Perry, J.N., Smith, R.H., Woiwod, I.P., Morse, D.R. (eds) Chaos in Real Data. Population and Community Biology Series, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4010-2_3

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