Ayal,
Yoram (Retired), Marco and
Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology
✔ The structure of desert communities;
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The effect of habitat productivity on community structure and trophic
interactions;
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Insect-plant interactions and insect community structure in desert
ecosystems;
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Insect parasitoid-host population interactions.
Bar-David, Shirli, Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology
✔ Spatial ecology and spatial genetics and their
implications for conservation biology and wildlife management;
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The spatial and genetic structure of populations, factors affecting range
expansion, and movement patterns of individuals under different landscape
scenarios.
Berger-Tal, Oded, Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert
Ecology
✔ Conservation behavior: I am interested in all aspects of
applying animal behavior knowledge and theory to improve conservation and
management. Specific topics that are of current interest include the
following:
✔ Post-release behavior of reintroduced animals
✔ Understanding the mechanisms and reversing the effects of
wildlife habituation to humans
✔ The impact of noise pollution on wildlife behavior and
population dynamics
✔ Human-wildlife conflict
✔ Animal cognition and conservation
Bouskila, Amos, Department of Life Sciences
✔ Behavioral Ecology
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Population Ecology
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Community Ecology
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Modeling and Game Theory
✔
Biodiversity Conservation
Giladi, Itamar, Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert
Ecology
✔ Plant population and community ecology
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Landscape ecology
✔
Ecology and evolution of seed dispersal
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Spatial ecology and Biodiversity
Hawlena, Hadas, Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology
✔Our research projects, although diverse follow, the same
principles: 1) a focus on the organisms in natural settings; 2) a strong
emphasis on an experimental approach; 3) interdisciplinary research integrating
ecological and evolutionary theory, behavioral ecology, physiology, population
dynamics, and molecular tools; and 4) consideration of the broader community.
✔ The evolution and ecology of host-parasite interactions:
We are appealed by the complexity of multiple hosts-multiple parasites
interactions and wish to understand their reciprocal effects and how they
coevolved with each other
✔ The evolution and ecology of symbiotic interactions: We
are interested to understand the role that symbiotic bacteria play in the
vertebrate host’s behavior and physiology, and whether they mediate the
interactions between the hosts and their parasites.
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Microbial ecology: We are testing whether ecological theories that were
developed and proved for macroorganisms apply also to parasitic bacteria. This
approach allows us to understand whether microbes are driven by different
mechanisms than well-studied animals, such as birds and mammals.
✔ Disease ecology: We apply our research to reveal the
evolutionary and ecological factors that change the risk of infectious diseases,
including vector-borne diseases to wild animals and people.
Kiflawi, Moshe, Department of Life Sciences
✔ Marine Ecology
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Population Ecology and Genetics
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Behavioral Ecology
Kotler, Burt, Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert
Ecology
✔ Community ecology, evolutionary ecology, and behavioral
ecology
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Optimal foraging, tradeoffs of food and safety, optimal patch use, the effect
of costly information
✔
Foraging games between predators and their prey
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Consequences of natural selection at the community level: mechanisms of
coexistence among desert granivorous birds and mammals
✔
Applying foraging theory and mechanisms of species coexistence to conservation
issues; behavioral indicators in conservation biology
✔Evolutionary ecology of cancer
Krasnov, Boris , Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology
✔ Ecology and evolution of host - parasite
interactions
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Macroecology
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Biogeography
Lubin, Yael (Emerita),
Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology
✔ Arachnid ecology
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Behavioral ecology
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Life history
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Social evolution
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Dispersal
Novoplansky, Ariel (Program Chairperson, Albert
Katz International School for Desert Studies)
✔ Evolutionary ecology of phenotypic plasticity in
plants;
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Plant morphogenesis and developmental strategies
✔
Plant communication and environmental perception
✔
Plant community ecology
Ovadia, Ofer, Department of Life Sciences
✔ Evolutionary Ecology
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Life History Evolution
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Population Ecology and Genetics
✔
Behavioral Ecology
Pinshow, Berry (Emeritus), Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert
Ecology
✔ Physiological ecology
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Energy and water exchange between animals and the environment
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Physiology of thermoregulation and osmoregulation in desert animals -
especially birds, bats and rodents
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Burrow architecture: How are burrows "designed", through natural
selection on their builders to suite the builder's physiological needs, thus
becoming become part of the organisms "extended physiology".
Roll, Uri, Marco and Louise Mitrani Department
of Desert Ecology
✔
Conversion Science
✔ Interactions
humans have with nature - how they affect it, and are affected and
interact with it.
✔ To explore these patterns I use theoretical &
statistical models, the analysis of data at scales ranging from the local to
the global, as well as data collected in the field on various organisms.
✔ This is done using an array of approaches from purely
theoretic perspectives all the way to studies linked to on-the-ground
implementation of conservation action.
✔ Arrangement and organization of natural phenomena in
space at different scales
Saltz,
David, Marco and Louise Mitrani
Department of Desert Ecology
✔ Wildlife management and conservation biology
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Specifically population dynamics and spatial ecology
✔
Ungulate ecology
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Ecology of small populations
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Disease dynamics
Shashar, Nadav, Department
of Life Sciences
✔ Marine Ecology
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Sensory Ecology
✔
Restoration Ecology
Segoli, Michal, Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert
Ecology
✔ Insects behavioral and evolutionary ecologyInsects
behavioral and evolutionary ecology
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Factors limiting the reproductive success of insects in the field
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Parasite-host interactions
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Endosymbiont-host interactions
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Biological control of pests and diseases
Seifan, Merav, Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert
Ecology
✔ Community ecology
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Plant ecology
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Plant-animal interactions
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Pollination ecology
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Disturbance ecology
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Spatial ecology
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Biodiversity and species richness
Shenbrot, Georgy, Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert
Ecology
✔ Community and population ecology of desert animals (small
mammals, lizards)
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Biogeography of arid zones
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Taxonomy of small mammals (Rodentia, Insectivora) and lizarsd (Agamidae)
✔
Conservation ecology, protection of rare species
Ziv, Yaron (Program
Chairperson, Department of Life Sciences)
✔ Macroecology
✔ Spatial
Ecology
✔Landscape
Ecology
✔Community
Ecology
✔Biodiversity
Conservation
