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    It is not the case that Stochastic models should be used when population sizes are small

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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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    • 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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