TY - JOUR
T1 - Controlling transient chaos to prevent species extinction
AU - Shulenburger, Luke
AU - Lai, Ying Cheng
AU - Yalçinkaya, Tolga
AU - Holt, Robert D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by NSF under Grant No. DMS-962659.
PY - 1999/9/6
Y1 - 1999/9/6
N2 - Recent work has suggested that species extinctions in ecological systems can occur as a consequence of deterministic transient chaos even in the absence of external disturbances. We argue and present a practical method to demonstrate that species extinctions due to transient chaos can be effectively prevented by applying small, ecologically feasible perturbations to the populations at appropriate but rare times. This may be of significant importance to the challenging environmental problems of species preservations.
AB - Recent work has suggested that species extinctions in ecological systems can occur as a consequence of deterministic transient chaos even in the absence of external disturbances. We argue and present a practical method to demonstrate that species extinctions due to transient chaos can be effectively prevented by applying small, ecologically feasible perturbations to the populations at appropriate but rare times. This may be of significant importance to the challenging environmental problems of species preservations.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00483-1
DO - 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00483-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0346615730
SN - 0375-9601
VL - 260
SP - 156
EP - 161
JO - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
IS - 1-2
ER -