-Coastal sand dune ecology
-Nature management and conservation
-Ecosystem services

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Kutiel\, P. and Danin\, A., 1987. Annual species diversity and above-ground phytomass in relation to some soil properties in a sandy area in the northern Sharon plains. Plant Ecology, 70: 45-49.
2. Kutiel, P. and Shaviv, A., 1989. Effect of simulated forest fire on the availability of N and P in Mediterranean soils. Plant and Soil, 120: 57-63.
3. Kutiel, P., Lavee, H., Segev, M. and Benyamini, Y. 1995. The effect of fire-induced surface heterogeneity on rainfall-runoff-erosion relationships in eastern Mediterranean ecosystem, Israel. Catena, 25: 77-87.
4. Kutiel, P., Peled, Y. and Geffen, E. 2000. The effect of removing shrub cover on annual plants and small mammals in a coastal sand dune ecosystem. Biological Conservation, 94: 235-242.
5. Kutiel, P., Cohen, O., Shoshany, M. and Shub, M. 2004. Vegetation establishment on the southern Israeli coastal sand dunes between the years 1965-1999. Landscape and Urban Planning, 67: 141-156.
6. Svoray, T., Mazor, S. and Bar (Kutiel), P. 2007. How is shrub cover related to soil moisture and patch geometry in fragmented landscapes of the northern Negev desert? Landscape Ecology, 22: 105-116.
7. Bar (Kutiel), P., Ziso-Cohen, V., Divinsky, I.; Katra, I. and Katz, O. 2016. Water availability potential in sand dunes and its implications for the distribution of Artemisia monosperma. Catena, 137: 144-151.
8. Divinsky, I., Becker, N., Bar (Kutiel), P., 2017. Ecosystem service tradeoff between grazing intensity and other services-A case study in Karei-Deshe experimental cattle range in northern Israel. Ecosystem Services, 24: 16-27.
9. Cohen, O., Gamliel, A., Katan, J., Kurzbaum , E., Riov , J. and Bar (Kutiel) , P. 2018. Controlling the seed bank of the invasive plant Acacia saligna: comparison of the efficacy of prescribed burning, soil solarization, and their combination. Biological Invasion, 20: 2875-2887.
10. Fairfax Bird, T.L., Bouskila, A., Groner, E. and Bar (Kutiel), P. 2020. Can vegetation removal successfully restore coastal dune biodiversity? Applied Sciences, 10, 2310.

Ph.D., 1984. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Environmental Biology
Name of advisor: Prof. E. Noy-Meir
Title of thesis: “Competition between annual plants along a soil depth gradient”

M.Sc., 1977. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Environmental Biology
Name of advisor: Prof. A. Danin
Title of thesis: “The interrelations between soil and vegetation at the coastal sand dunes near Caesarea, Israel”

B.Sc. 1974 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Biology