Theory NovakLab Publications Effects of predator novelty on intraguild predation community with adaptive prey defense Understanding coexistence within community modules such as intraguild predation (IGP), where an omnivore both preys on and competes … Ingeman, Novak Kelp-forest dynamics controlled by substrate complexity The factors that determine why ecosystems exhibit abrupt shifts in state are of paramount importance for management, conservation, and … Randell, Kenner, Tomoleoni, Yee, Novak PDF Cite Code DOI Data SOM PressPurt - Network sensitivity to press perturbations under interaction uncertainty While the use of networks to understand how complex systems respond to perturbations is pervasive across scientific disciplines, the … Koslicki, Gibbon, Novak Cite Code DOI CRAN Grazer-resource behavior, interactions, and feedbacks control kelp-forest dynamics and stability How the direct and indirect effects of species interactions cascade to affect community struc- ture, functioning, and stability is a … Randell PDF Cite Collective behaviour can stabilize ecosystems Collective behaviour is common in bacteria, plants, and animals, and thus across ecosystems, from biofilms to cities. With collective … Dalziel, Novak, Watson, Ellner PDF Cite Code DOI SOM Hidden layers of density dependence in consumer feeding rates Functional responses relate a consumer’s feeding rates to variation in its abiotic and biotic environment, providing insight into … Stouffer, Novak Preprint PDF Cite Code DOI Data SOM Exact probabilities for the indeterminacy of complex networks as perceived through press perturbations We consider the goal of predicting how complex networks respond to chronic (press) perturbations when characterizations of their … Koslicki, Novak Preprint PDF Cite Code DOI SOM Rapid and direct recoveries of predators and prey through synchronized ecosystem management One of the twenty-first century’s greatest environmental challenges is to recover and restore species, habitats and ecosystems. The … Samhouri, Stier, Hennessey, Novak, Halpern, Levin PDF Cite DOI SOM Characterizing species interactions to understand press perturbations: What is the community matrix? The community matrix is among ecology’s most important mathematical abstractions, formally encapsulating the interconnected … Novak, Yeakel, Noble, Doak, Emmerson, Estes, Jacob, Tinker, Wootton PDF Cite DOI SOM Complexity increases predictability in allometrically constrained food webs All ecosystems are subjected to chronic disturbances, such as harvest, pollution, and climate change. The capacity to forecast how … Iles, Novak PDF Cite DOI Data SOM Ecosystem context and historical contingency in apex predator recoveries Habitat loss, overexploitation, and numerous other stressors have caused global declines in apex predators. This “trophic downgrading” … Stier, Samhouri, Novak, Marshall, Ward, Holt, Levin PDF Cite DOI Effects of predator introductions on population and community dynamics There is increasing awareness that human activities are altering the ways that natural systems operate and that local shifts in species … Ingeman PDF Cite Poster Selection on stability across ecological scales Much of the focus in evolutionary biology has been on the adaptive differentiation among organisms. It is equally important to … Borrelli, Allesina, Amarasekare, Arditi, Chase, Damuth, Holt, Logofet, Novak, Rohr, Rossberg, Spencer, Tran, Ginzburg PDF Cite DOI Where does the time go?: Mixing and the depth-dependent distribution of fossil ages Knowing how time is distributed within a fossil record is fundamental to paleobiology. Many efforts to quantify temporal resolution … Terry, Novak PDF Cite DOI SOM Probabilistic patterns of interaction: the effects of link-strength variability on food web structure Patterns of species interactions affect the dynamics of food webs. An important component of species interactions that is rarely … Yeakel, Guimarães, Novak, Fox-Dobbs, Koch PDF Cite DOI SOM Generalized modeling of ecological population dynamics Over the past 7 years, several authors have used the approach of generalized modeling to study the dynamics of food chains and food … Yeakel, Stiefs, Novak, Gross PDF Cite DOI Predicting community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity How best to predict the effects of perturbations to ecological communities has been a long‐standing goal for both applied and basic … Novak, Wootton, Doak, Emmerson, Estes, Tinker PDF Cite Code DOI SOM The Effect of Travel Loss on Evolutionarily Stable Distributions of Populations in Space A key assumption of the ideal free distribution (IFD) is that there are no costs in moving between habitat patches. However, because … DeAngelis, Wolkowicz, Lou, Jiang, Novak, Svanbäck, Araújo, Jo, Cleary PDF Cite DOI SOM Using experimental indices to quantify the strength of species interactions Few methods for demonstrating the effects of species interactions rival that of the manipulative experiment (Kareiva and Levin 2002). … Novak, Wootton PDF Cite DOI Erratum Estimating nonlinear interaction strengths: an observation-based method for species-rich food webs Efforts to estimate the strength of species interactions in species‐rich, reticulate food webs have been hampered by the multitude of … Novak, Wootton PDF Cite DOI 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