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Nature 451, xiii (14 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/7180xiiib; Published online 13 February 2008
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Ecological food webs are undeniably complex, but whether they are also chaotic has been a matter of debate for ecologists for more than 30 years. Chaotic systems are governed by physical laws so convoluted that long-term predictions of their behaviour are impossible.
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