Intertidal NovakLab Publications High variation in handling times confers 35-year stability to predator feeding rates despite altered prey abundances and apparent diet proportions Historical resurveys of ecological communities are important for placing the structure of modern ecosystems in context. Rarely, … Novak Preprint Cite Code Quantifying the effects of intraspecific variation on predator feeding rates through nonlinear averaging Theory suggests that intraspecific trait variation will alter species interaction strengths through nonlinear averaging when … Coblentz, Merhoff, Novak PDF Cite DOI Data SOM The influence of prey predictability on the foraging behavior and movement of intertidal predators Fluctuations and spatial heterogeneity of habitat and resources is thought to underlie niche variation in animal populations, with … Hennessey PDF Cite Community Responses to Climate-Related Variability and Disease: The Critical Importance of Long-Term Research A major goal of the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) has been to understand the impacts of climate … Menge, Caselle, Barth, Blanchette, Carr, Chan, Gravem, Gouhier, Lubchenco, McManus, Milligan, Novak, Raimondi, Washburn, White PDF Cite DOI Integrating Coastal Oceanic and Benthic Ecological Approaches for Understanding Large-Scale Meta-Ecosystem Dynamics As the reality of climate change became obvious during the late 1900s, the need for understanding ecosystem pattern and dynamics at … Menge, Caselle, Milligan, Gravem, Gouhier, White, Barth, Blanchette, Carr, Chan, Lubchenco, McManus, Novak, Raimondi, Washburn PDF Cite DOI PISCO: Advances Made Through the Formation of a Large-Scale, Long-Term Consortium for Integrated Understanding of Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics To support conservation practices, societal demand for understanding fundamental coastal ocean ecosystem mechanisms has grown in recent … Menge, Milligan, Caselle, Barth, Blanchette, Carr, Chan, Cowen, Denny, Gaines, Hofmann, Kroeker, Lubchenco, McManus, Novak, Palumbi, Raimondi, Somero, Warner, Washburn, White PDF Cite DOI Planning for Change: Assessing the Potential Role of Marine Protected Areas and Fisheries Management Approaches for Resilience Management in a Changing Ocean Despite progressive policies and continued advances in ocean management, numerous shifts associated with global changes have been … Kroeker, Carr, Raimondi, Caselle, Washburn, Palumbi, Barth, Chan, Menge, Milligan, Novak, White PDF Cite DOI Candidate causes, consequences, and estimation of individual diet specialization Diet variation among individuals within populations is widespread. Often diet dierences among individuals are attributable to obvious … Coblentz PDF Cite Bayesian characterization of uncertainty in species interaction strengths Considerable effort has been devoted to the estimation of species interaction strengths. This effort has focused primarily on … Wolf, Novak, Gitelman Preprint PDF Cite Code DOI Data SOM Quantifying predator dependence in the functional response of generalist predators A long‐standing debate concerns how functional responses are best described. Theory suggests that ratio dependence is consistent with … Novak, Wolf, Coblentz, Shepard Preprint PDF Cite Code DOI Data SOM The application of Bayesian hierarchical models to quantify individual diet specialization Intraspecific variation in ecologically relevant traits is widespread. In generalist predators in particular, individual diet … Coblentz, Rosenblatt, Novak PDF Cite Code DOI Data Sensitive barnacles - A case study for collaborative sustainable fishery development Current human – ocean relationships are dominated by unsustainable extraction of marine resources having both ecological and … Bingham PDF Poster Using stable isotopes to quantify species interaction strengths Understanding ecological interaction strengths is one of the main objectives of ecology. Recently, two methods for estimating … Shepard PDF Trophic omnivory across a productivity gradient: intraguild predation theory and the structure and strength of species interactions Intraguild predation theory centres on two predictions: (i) for an omnivore and an intermediate predator (IG-prey) to coexist on shared … Novak PDF Cite DOI Data SOM Merging Resource Availability with Isotope Mixing Models: The Role of Neutral Interaction Assumptions Bayesian mixing models have allowed for the inclusion of uncertainty and prior information in the analysis of trophic interactions … Yeakel, Novak, Guimarães, Dominy, Koch, Ward, Moore, Semmens PDF Cite DOI Estimating interaction strengths in nature: experimental support for an observational approach The complexity of food webs poses a significant hurdle for our growing understanding of the structure and dynamics of ecological … Novak PDF Cite DOI Data SOM Trophic omnivory and the structure, strength, and nonlinear nature of species interactions across a productivity gradient Two elements of food webs add significantly to their complexity: The presence of trophic omnivores and the nonlinear nature of … Novak Cite