title: Chaotic and stable perturbed maps: 2-cycles and spatial models.
abstract: As the growth rate parameter increases in the Ricker, logistic and some other maps, the models exhibit an irreversible period doubling route to chaos. If a constant positive perturbation is introduced, then the Ricker model (but not the classical logistic map) experiences period doubling reversals; the break of chaos finally gives birth to a stable two-cycle. We outline the maps which demonstrate a similar behavior and also study relevant discrete spatial models where the value in each cell at the next step is defined only by the values at the cell and its nearest neighbors. The stable 2-cycle in a scalar map does not necessarily imply 2-cyclic-type behavior in each cell for the spatial generalization of the map.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada. maelena@ucalgary.ca
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Braverman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haroutunian
mesh_terms: D017753:Ecosystem; D008954:Models, Biological; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D011157:Population Dynamics