| newolder wrote: |
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It's now on my resource lists too. Cheers again. ed. |
| Bikerman wrote: |
| http://bikerman.info/resources/mywork/chaos-new.html |
| Gagnar The Unruly wrote: |
| One niggle -- I don't believe that it's accurate to say that the logistic map is more familiar to biologists than the logistic growth equation. I believe that the most familiar growth equations to most biologists are differential equations, such as the logistic growth equation:
dP/dt = rP*(1-K/P) or P(t) = [KPo*e^(rt)]/(K+Po[e^(rt)-1]) In general, I believe that most population modelling still relies on differential equations and chaos is ignored except as a special case for certain systems. Chaos doesn't really creep into the general ecology curriculum, except perhaps for theoretical ecologists. I'll check my ecology textbook to see where/how the logistic map pops up. |
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