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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2009

Locating the transition from periodic oscillations to spatiotemporal chaos in the wake of invasion.

Jonathan A Sherratt, Matthew J Smith, Jens D M Rademacher

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  7. Identifying the dynamics of complex spatio-temporal systems by spatial recurrence properties.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2010
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Jonathan A SherrattDepartment of Mathematics and Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom. jas@ma.hw.ac.uk
Matthew J Smith
Jens D M Rademacher

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In systems with cyclic dynamics, invasions often generate periodic spatiotemporal oscillations, which undergo a subsequent transition to chaos. The periodic oscillations have the form of a wavetrain and occur in a band of constant width. In applications, a key question is whether one expects spatiotemporal data to be dominated by regular or irregular oscillations or to involve a significant proportion of both. This depends on the width of the wavetrain band. Here, we present mathematical theory that enables the direct calculation of this width. Our method synthesizes recent developments in stability theory and computation. It is developed for only 1 equation system, but because this is a normal form close to a Hopf bifurcation, the results can be applied directly to a wide range of models. We illustrate this by considering a classic example from ecology: wavetrains in the wake of the invasion of a prey population by predators.

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Predatory BehaviorAnimalsComputer SimulationEcologyNumerical Analysis, Computer-AssistedTime Factors

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PMID19553205
PMCPMC2701342

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