Novak, Moore & Leidy (2011). Nestedness patterns and the dual nature of community reassembly in California streams: a multivariate permutation-based approach. Global Change Biology 17: 3714-3723. (pdf) (abstract)

Yeakel, Novak, Guimarães, Dominy, Koch, Ward, Moore & Semmens (2011). Merging resource availability with isotope mixing models: the role of neutral interaction assumptions. PloS ONE 6(7): e22015. (pdf) (abstract)

DeAngelis, Wolkowicz, Lou, Jian, Novak, Svanbäck, Araújo, Jo & Cleary (2011). The effect of travel loss on evolutionarily stable distributions of populations in space. The American Naturalist 178(1):15-29. (pdf) (abstract)

Novak, Wootton, Doak, Emmerson, Estes & Tinker (2011). Predicting community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity. Ecology 92(4): 836-846. (Concepts & Synthesis)  (pdf) (abstract) (highlighted by Faculty of 1000)

Yeakel, Stiefs, Novak & Gross (2011). Generalized modeling of ecological population dynamics. Theoretical Ecology 4(2): 179-194. (pdf) (abstract)

Bolnick, Amarasekare, Araújo, Bürger, Levine, Novak, Schreiber, Urban & Vasseur (2011). Why intraspecific trait variation matters in community ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26(4): 183-191. (pdf) (abstract)

Novak (2010). Estimating interaction strengths in nature: experimental support for an observational approach. Ecology 91(8): 2394-2405. (pdf) (abstract)

Novak & Wootton (2010). Using experimental indices to quantify the strength of species interactions. Oikos 119: 1057-1063. (Forum) (pdf) (abstract) (erratum)

Novak & Wootton (2008). Estimating nonlinear interaction strengths: an observational method for species-rich food webs. Ecology 89(8): 2083-2089. (Report) (pdf) (abstract)

Doak, Estes, Halpern, Jacob, Lindberg, Lovvorn, Monson, Tinker, Williams, Wootton, Carroll, Emmerson, Micheli & Novak (2008). Understanding and predicting ecological dynamics: are major surprises inevitable? Ecology 89(4): 952-961. (Concepts & Synthesis) (pdf) (abstract)

Novak (2004). Diurnal activity in a group of Gulf of Maine decapods. Crustaceana 77(5): 603-620. (pdf) (abstract)

Novak, Wootton, Doak, Emmerson, Estes & Tinker (2011). Predicting community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity. Mote Symposium - Species interactions in marine communities: the invisible fabric of nature. Sarasota, FL.

Novak & Tinker (2010). The temporal dynamics of intraspecific diet-specialization.  Evolution, Portland, OR.

Novak, Moore & Leidy (2010). Nestedness patterns reveal the dual nature of community disassembly in California streams.  North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.

Novak (2009). Linear responses from nonlinear interactions: why linear measures of species interaction strengths do and do not suffice.  Western Society of Naturalists, Monterey, CA.

Novak (2009). The empirical nonlinearity of multispecies functional responses and the stability of generalist predator-prey interactions.  Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.

Novak (2008). Trophic omnivory and the structure, strength, and nonlinear nature of species interactions across a productivity gradient.  Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Milwaukee, WI. (Buell Award Honorable Mention for outstanding student presentation)

Novak (2008). Trophic omnivory across a productivity gradient: the structure and strength of species interactions.  Evolution, Minneapolis, MN.

Novak (2007). Species responses to food web perturbations: the use and accuracy of qualitative and quantitative predictions.  Western Society of Naturalists, Ventura, CA.

Novak (2007). Estimating the nonlinear strength of per capita species interactions: a new observational method for species rich food webs.  Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, San Jose, CA.

Novak (2007). The strength and linearity of species interaction in a New Zealand food web.  Evolution, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Novak (2007). Omnivorous species interactions across a productivity gradient.  Natural History Seminar Series, University of Chicago, IL.

Novak (2007). A step-by-step guide to crashing the NCEAS server: The limits to qualitative predictions in real food webs.  Committee on Evolutionary Biology, GAANN Symposium, University of Chicago.

Novak & Wootton (2006). Estimating the per capita strength of species interactions in an omnivorous food web of the New Zealand intertidal.  Western Society of Naturalists meeting, Redmond, WA.

Novak (2006). Quantitative predictions in complex food webs:  a new method for estimating the strength of species interactions in multi-species omnivorous systems.  EPA Science to Achieve Results Fellows conference, Washington D.C..

Novak (2004). Diurnal activity in a group of Gulf of Maine decapods.  Midwestern Ecology and Evolution Conference, South Bend, IN.

Novak (2008). Trophic omnivory and the structure, strength, and nonlinear nature of species interactions across a productivity gradient. PhD. University of Chicago (pdf)