Mark Novak

Publications

• Geometric complexity and the information-theoretic comparison of functional-response models
• Collective behaviour can stabilize ecosystems
• Hidden layers of density dependence in consumer feeding rates
• Systematic bias in studies of consumer functional responses
• Systematic bias in studies of consumer functional responses
• Temporal shifts in intraspecific and interspecific diet variation among 3 stream predators
• Food-web interaction strength distributions are conserved by greater variation between than within predator--prey pairs
• Selection on stability across ecological scales
• Community Responses to Climate-Related Variability and Disease: The Critical Importance of Long-Term Research
• Experimental demonstration of a trophic cascade in the Galápagos rocky subtidal: Effects of consumer identity and behavior
• Quantifying predator dependence in the functional response of generalist predators
• Rapid and direct recoveries of predators and prey through synchronized ecosystem management
• Exact probabilities for the indeterminacy of complex networks as perceived through press perturbations
• Timescales alter the inferred strength and temporal consistency of intraspecific diet specialization
• PISCO: Advances Made Through the Formation of a Large-Scale, Long-Term Consortium for Integrated Understanding of Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics
• Integrating Coastal Oceanic and Benthic Ecological Approaches for Understanding Large-Scale Meta-Ecosystem Dynamics
• What drives interaction strengths in complex food webs? A test with feeding rates of a generalist stream predator
• Characterizing species interactions to understand press perturbations: What is the community matrix?
• Complexity increases predictability in allometrically constrained food webs
• Ecosystem context and historical contingency in apex predator recoveries
• Planning for Change: Assessing the Potential Role of Marine Protected Areas and Fisheries Management Approaches for Resilience Management in a Changing Ocean
• The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting
• Bayesian characterization of uncertainty in species interaction strengths
• Long-Term Studies Contribute Disproportionately to Ecology and Policy
• Using Survival Models to Estimate Invertebrate Prey Identification Times in a Generalist Stream Fish
• The application of Bayesian hierarchical models to quantify individual diet specialization
• Where does the time go?: Mixing and the depth-dependent distribution of fossil ages
• A multi-decade time series of kelp forest community structure at San Nicolas Island, California (USA)
• Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century
• An Online Database for Informing Ecological Network Models: http://kelpforest.ucsc.edu
• Trophic omnivory across a productivity gradient: intraguild predation theory and the structure and strength of species interactions
• Using the functional response of a consumer to predict biotic resistance to invasive prey
• Probabilistic patterns of interaction: the effects of link-strength variability on food web structure
• Structure and mechanism of diet specialisation: testing models of individual variation in resource use with sea otters
• Merging Resource Availability with Isotope Mixing Models: The Role of Neutral Interaction Assumptions
• Generalized modeling of ecological population dynamics
• Nestedness patterns and the dual nature of community reassembly in California streams: a multivariate permutation-based approach
• Predicting community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity
• Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology
• The Effect of Travel Loss on Evolutionarily Stable Distributions of Populations in Space
• Estimating nonlinear interaction strengths: an observation-based method for species-rich food webs
• Estimating interaction strengths in nature: experimental support for an observational approach
• Using experimental indices to quantify the strength of species interactions
• UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTING ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS: ARE MAJOR SURPRISES INEVITABLE
• Diurnal activity in a group of Gulf of Maine decapods
• Quantifying the effects of intraspecific variation on predator feeding rates through nonlinear averaging
• Hidden layers of density dependence in consumer feeding rates