The framework of complexity theory in insect pest disaster research.
Author of the article:MA Fei1,XU Xiao-Feng2,ZHAI Bao-Ping1,CHENG Xia-Nian1
Author's Workplace:(1.Key Laboratory of Monitoring and Management of Plant Disease and Insects, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing210095, China; 2. Life School of Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing210097, China)
Key Words:insect pest disaster; complexity; theory framework; nonlinear science
Abstract: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 resear