title: Spatial effects and turing instabilities in the invasive species model.
abstract: This paper demonstrates that a recently proposed dynamical model for the ecology of Easter Island admits periodic and chaotic attractors, not previously reported. Such behavior may more realistically depict the population dynamics of general ecosystems and illustrates the power of simple models to produce the kind of complex behavior that is ubiquitous in such systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Rochester Insitute of Technology, Roschester, NY 14623, USA.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Basener
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brooks
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Radin
authors.forename: Tamas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wiandt