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    Stochastic models should be used when population sizes are small

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    • 1.When population sizes are small, the effects of fluctuations due to population size must be explicitly analyzed
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    • 2.Stochastic models explicitly analyze the effects of population size fluctuations
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    • 1.Deterministic models with sensitivity analysis can adequately capture threshold effects in small populations without stochastic complexity.
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    • 2.The computational costs of stochastic modeling in conservation contexts may divert limited resources from empirical data collection that matters more.
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    • 1.May and colleagues demonstrated that deterministic chaos in ecological models produces outcomes indistinguishable from stochastic noise in small populations.
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    • 2.If deterministic dynamics mimic stochastic outcomes, the prescriptive claim that stochastic models *should* be used lacks discriminatory empirical grounding.
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    If population sizes are small, then models should be stochastic: the effects of fluctuations due of population size must be explicitly analyzed. Stochastic models in ecology are among the most mathematically complex models in science. Nevertheless they have begun to be systematically studied because of their relevance to biological conservation—see the entry on conservation biology. They also raise philosophically interesting questions because they underscore the extent to which the nature of
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