Mark Novak

Jul 29, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Kyle Edward Coblentz |Mark Novak |John DeLong

AbstractMany critical drivers of ecological systems exhibit regular scaling relationships, yet, often, the underlying mechanisms explaining these relationships are unknown. Trophic interactions strengths, which underpin ecosystem stability and dynamics, are no exception, exhibiting statistical and scaling relationships with predator and prey traits that lack a causal evolutionary explanation.

May 18, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Mark Novak

If you are looking for a polemical book against God and/or religion, or perhaps a book that (finally) disproves (the existence of) God, you should pass this book by: neither of these are the aims of the authors herein. Rather, generally bypassing questions of God's (non)existence, the essays collected here seek to explore and describe the experience or feeling of the absence of God (although a few essays seem a little detached from this aim).

May 17, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Mark Novak |Kyle Edward Coblentz |John DeLong

AbstractEcologists differ in the degree to which they consider the linear Type I functional response to be an unrealistic versus sufficient representation of predator feeding rates. Empiricists tend to consider it unsuitably non-mechanistic and theoreticians tend to consider it necessarily simple.

Dec 6, 2023 | policechiefmagazine.org | Margaret Kimbrell White |Dwight Henninger |Mark Novak

Dwight Henninger, Chief (Ret.), Vail Police Department, and Mark Novak, Chief, Vail Fire and Emergency Services, Colorado A terrorism incident at an athletic event, a 60-car crash, a ski area accident with numerous casualties, a swiftly moving urban interface wildfire—each of these sounds like a bad day with long-term consequences on the local government, businesses, and entire community.