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  • Publications
    • TaxonBodyMassML: Taxonomy-informed prediction of body mass using gradient-boosted trees
    • Symbolic regression for empirically realistic population dynamic time series
    • Models reveal potential synergies in management actions for bull kelp forest resilience and restoration
    • FracFeed: Global database of the fraction of feeding predators
    • Sea urchin consumption of kelp controlled by the density of drift algae
    • Upper’s (1974) unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer’s block”: Renewed attempt using chat-based large language models
    • In defense of Type I functional responses: The frequency and population-dynamic effects of feeding on multiple prey at a time
    • Simple, universal rules predict trophic interaction strengths
    • Body mass–biomass scaling modulates species keystone-ness to press perturbations
    • Age-prevalence curves in a multi-species parasite community
    • Corrigendum: Geometric complexity and the information-theoretic comparison of functional-response models
    • High variation in handling times confers 35-year stability to predator feeding rates despite community change
    • Predator feeding rates may often be unsaturated under typical prey densities
    • Effects of predator novelty on intraguild predation communities with adaptive prey defense
    • Kelp-forest dynamics controlled by substrate complexity
    • PressPurt - Network sensitivity to press perturbations under interaction uncertainty
    • Grazer-resource behavior, interactions, and feedbacks control kelp-forest dynamics and stability
    • Collective behaviour can stabilize ecosystems
    • Geometric complexity and the information-theoretic comparison of functional-response models
    • The effects of formalin fixation and fluid storage on stable isotopes in rodent hair
    • The predictability of qualitative food web dynamics in response to extinction and invasion
    • Hidden layers of density dependence in consumer feeding rates
    • Quantifying the effects of intraspecific variation on predator feeding rates through nonlinear averaging
    • Systematic bias in studies of consumer functional responses
    • Trematode parasites exceed aquatic insect biomass in Oregon stream food webs
    • Temporal shifts in intraspecific and interspecific diet variation among 3 stream predators
    • The influence of prey predictability on the foraging behavior and movement of intertidal predators
    • Community Responses to Climate-Related Variability and Disease: The Critical Importance of Long-Term Research
    • Food-web interaction strength distributions are conserved by greater variation between than within predator--prey pairs
    • Integrating Coastal Oceanic and Benthic Ecological Approaches for Understanding Large-Scale Meta-Ecosystem Dynamics
    • PISCO: Advances Made Through the Formation of a Large-Scale, Long-Term Consortium for Integrated Understanding of Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics
    • Planning for Change: Assessing the Potential Role of Marine Protected Areas and Fisheries Management Approaches for Resilience Management in a Changing Ocean
    • State-structured species interactions and their consequences across levels of biological organization
    • The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting
    • Candidate causes, consequences, and estimation of individual diet specialization
    • Exact probabilities for the indeterminacy of complex networks as perceived through press perturbations
    • What drives interaction strengths in complex food webs? A test with feeding rates of a generalist stream predator
    • Bayesian characterization of uncertainty in species interaction strengths
    • Contributions of parasites to energy flow through a stream food web
    • Experimental demonstration of a trophic cascade in the Galápagos rocky subtidal: Effects of consumer identity and behavior
    • Long-Term Studies Contribute Disproportionately to Ecology and Policy
    • Quantifying predator dependence in the functional response of generalist predators
    • Rapid and direct recoveries of predators and prey through synchronized ecosystem management
    • The application of Bayesian hierarchical models to quantify individual diet specialization
    • Using Survival Models to Estimate Invertebrate Prey Identification Times in a Generalist Stream Fish
    • Characterizing species interactions to understand press perturbations: What is the community matrix?
    • Competitive mechanisms underlying the displacement of native crayfish by non-native crayfish
    • Complexity increases predictability in allometrically constrained food webs
    • Ecosystem context and historical contingency in apex predator recoveries
    • Effects of predator introductions on population and community dynamics
    • Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century
    • Sensitive barnacles - A case study for collaborative sustainable fishery development
    • Using stable isotopes to quantify species interaction strengths
    • Selection on stability across ecological scales
    • Timescales alter the inferred strength and temporal consistency of intraspecific diet specialization
    • Where does the time go?: Mixing and the depth-dependent distribution of fossil ages
    • An Online Database for Informing Ecological Network Models: http://kelpforest.ucsc.edu
    • Complex networks in kelp forest ecosystems - Visualizing big data
    • A multi-decade time series of kelp forest community structure at San Nicolas Island, California (USA)
    • Trophic omnivory across a productivity gradient: intraguild predation theory and the structure and strength of species interactions
    • 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
    • Using the functional response of a consumer to predict biotic resistance to invasive prey
    • Generalized modeling of ecological population dynamics
    • Merging Resource Availability with Isotope Mixing Models: The Role of Neutral Interaction Assumptions
    • 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
    • The Effect of Travel Loss on Evolutionarily Stable Distributions of Populations in Space
    • Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology
    • Estimating interaction strengths in nature: experimental support for an observational approach
    • Using experimental indices to quantify the strength of species interactions
    • Estimating nonlinear interaction strengths: an observation-based method for species-rich food webs
    • Trophic omnivory and the structure, strength, and nonlinear nature of species interactions across a productivity gradient
    • Understanding and predicting ecological dynamics: are major surprises inevitable
    • Diurnal activity in a group of Gulf of Maine decapods
    • Intraguild and extraguild predations: implications for the diel activity and distribution of four large decapod species
  • Terms
  • Projects
    • Dynamics
    • Individual variation
    • Interaction strengths
    • Intertidal
    • Streams
    • Subtidal
    • Theory
    • Taxon Body Mass ML
  • Courses
    • Analytical Workflows (IB516)
    • Data-Theory Integration
    • Ecology (BI370)
    • Marine Ecology (BI351)
    • Past courses
    • Scientific Writing (IB514)
    • Theoretical Ecology (IB592)
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Taxon Body Mass ML

Taxon body mass machine learning project

Publications

Pasquantonio, Prater, Pendurti, Novak (2026). TaxonBodyMassML: Taxonomy-informed prediction of body mass using gradient-boosted trees.
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