Chaos in Ecology: Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics. J. M. Gushing, R. F. Costantino, B. Dennis, R. A. Desharnais, S. M. Henson. 2003. Amsterdam: Academic Press

摘要

Science is messy, usually. A new book about the flour beetle experiments of the interdisciplinary "Beetle Team"—Jim Gushing, Bob Costantino, Brian Dennis, Bob Desharnais, and Shandelle Henson—is an exception. Chaos in Ecology is an elegant blend of mathematics, statistics, and biology. Additionally, it raises perplexing questions about the relationship between probabilistic models and data. It is a technical book and is not shy about equations. It is also extremely well-writ-ten. A delightfully readable concoction of theory and experiment, Chaos in Ecology will be especially i interesting to anyone curious about the ubiquitous and knotty problems of inference for stochastic systems.