The framework of complexity theory in insect pest disaster research
Xu Xiao · Kunchong zhishi · 2003
Insect pest disaster systems are very complicated, exhibiting complex properties of irregularity, difference, diversity, sudden change, stochasticity, predictability and periodicity. These result in some classical theory and methods being unfit for research in this field. Based on the nonlinear development of complexity science, neural network theory, chaos theory and wavelet analysis, and the partial research results on insect pests; a framework for the application of complexity theory in insect pest disaster research is developed based on the concept of a greatly complicated system. This offers new theoretical support to further study of the cause, mechanism and prediction of insect pest disasters.