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| Schaffer, W.M. | |
| Stretching and folding in lynx fur returns evidence for a strange attractor in nature | |
| 1984 American Naturalist (124): 798-820 | |
A 3-dimensional phase portrait for fur returns of Canadian lynx is constructed from a time series for a single variable. The resulting orbit is essentially sheetlike and exhibits successive stretching and folding, a hallmark of low-dimensional, strange attractors. Analysis of the associated 1-dimensional map suggests that the observed fluctuations, and hence the stretching and folding, most likely represent an orbit which was at least twice periodic with noise superimposed. |
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