One of the initial examples of ecological chaos was a stick in a stream. Suppose you throw a stick off a bridge as you are standing over a stream. How will that stick come out the other side of the bridge? Because of the river turbulence and the events that could occur under the bridge (which you can in no way see or predict) you have no way to know the outcome of this situation. Yet in the image above the bald tree has been recruited magnanimously.
