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ArticleScientific reports2017

A novel procedure for the identification of chaos in complex biological systems.

D Bazeia, M B P N Pereira, A V Brito, B F de Oliveira, J G G S Ramos

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D BazeiaDepartamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, 58051-970, Brazil.
M B P N PereiraCentro de Informática, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, 58055-000, Brazil.
A V BritoCentro de Informática, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, 58055-000, Brazil.
B F de OliveiraDepartamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, 87020-900, Brazil.
J G G S RamosDepartamento de Física, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, 58051-970, Brazil.

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Abstract

We demonstrate the presence of chaos in stochastic simulations that are widely used to study biodiversity in nature. The investigation deals with a set of three distinct species that evolve according to the standard rules of mobility, reproduction and predation, with predation following the cyclic rules of the popular rock, paper and scissors game. The study uncovers the possibility to distinguish between time evolutions that start from slightly different initial states, guided by the Hamming distance which heuristically unveils the chaotic behavior. The finding opens up a quantitative approach that relates the correlation length to the average density of maxima of a typical species, and an ensemble of stochastic simulations is implemented to support the procedure. The main result of the work shows how a single and simple experimental realization that counts the density of maxima associated with the chaotic evolution of the species serves to infer its correlation length. We use the result to investigate others distinct complex systems, one dealing with a set of differential equations that can be used to model a diversity of natural and artificial chaotic systems, and another one, focusing on the ocean water level.

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Models, BiologicalNonlinear DynamicsStochastic ProcessesAlgorithmsBiological EvolutionComputer Simulation

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PMID28322257
PMCPMC5359622

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