What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluctuate? Are
populations in complex ecosystems more stable than populations in
simple ecosystems? In 1973, Robert May addressed these questions in
this classic book. May investigated the mathematical roots of
population dynamics and argued-counter to most current biological
thinking-that complex ecosystems in themselves do not lead to
population stability. "Stability and Complexity in Model
Ecosystems" played a key role in introducing nonlinear mathematical
models and the study of deterministic chaos into ecology, a role
chronicled in James Gleick's book "Chaos." In the quarter century
since its first publication, the book's message has grown in power.
Nonlinear models are now at the center of ecological thinking, and
current threats to biodiversity have made questions about the role
of ecosystem complexity more crucial than ever. In a new
introduction, the author addresses some of the changes that have
swept biology and the biological world since the book's first
publication.
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