Largely because ecology is complex and we don’t know everything, despite what is projected. 🤷🏻♂️
frankrennie
The relevance of chaos theory to appled ecology might seem unclear to practitioners
But it lies in the fact that even relatively simple models of species, communities or ecosystems
can give rise to widely varying trajectories - leading to uncertainty in outcomes
Fifty years since a simple equation described the chaos of biology 🧪🌐 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
An exploration of chaos theory in population dynamics showed that unpredictable systems can often be modelled using surprisingly simple mathematics.
