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Population dynamics: Limits of predictability

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Problems related to the complex pattern of ecosystem dynamics are discussed. Examples of studies on the complex population dynamics are considered, including those of plankton populations in a spatially heterogeneous environment and of an agroecosystem invaded by pests resistant to Bt toxins produced by genetically modified insecticidal crops.

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Original Russian Text © A.B. Medvinsky, 2006, published in Biofizika, 2006, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 1033–1043.

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Medvinsky, A.B. Population dynamics: Limits of predictability. BIOPHYSICS 51, 908–916 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350906060108

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