title: Spatiotemporal chaos in Easter Island ecology.
abstract: This paper demonstrates that a recently proposed spatiotemporal 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: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. sprott@physics.wisc.edu
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sprott