“…An important model of this kind is the coupled map lattice, which has also often been studied for reasons independent of its ecological significance (Amritkar et al, 1991;Amritkar and Gade, 1993;Anteneodo et al, 2003;Astakhov et al, 1995;Gade and Amritkar, 1993;Kaneko, 1992aKaneko, , 1992bKaneko, , 1993Konishi and Kaneko, 1992;Lai, 1995;Manrubia and Mikhailov, 2000;Morita, 1996;Parekh et al, 1998;Silva et al, 2001;Zhu et al, 2003;De Monte et al, 2004;Lai, 1995). For ecological models of this type, a particular map governs the local dynamics at some number of discrete locations, and the populations at each location are connected to nearby locations according to some dispersal rule.…”