Mark Novak

This study evaluates symbolic regression's ability to recover population dynamics equations from field-based time series, finding that sampling density and process noise significantly affect equation recovery.

This study quantifies how sea urchin consumption of kelp depends on drift algae density, finding that maintaining equal drift and kelp amounts prevents urchin grazing on live kelp.

The paper derives a new functional response model for predators handling multiple prey and shows it can explain coexistence dynamics not captured by traditional Type I, II, or III models.

The paper proposes two rules to explain the scaling of trophic interaction strengths using predator functional responses, validated across 2,100 experiments.