Conservation oriented publications by scientists working in Israel

2026

• Aidlin Engel, A., Elimelech, G., Marques, J., Berman, O., Levy, O., Tarazi, E., 2026. “Reef-Plant”: Ceramic 3D printed design and assessment for coral out-planting. Ecological Engineering 232, 108068.
• Anglister, N., Acácio, M., Vaadia, G., Arnon, E., Bruer, M., Hatzofe, O., Miller, Y., King, R., Pinter-Wollman, N., Spiegel, O., 2026. Extreme temperatures impede the release success of captive-bred avian scavengers. Ornithological Applications.
• Azulay, C., Kleinhaus, K., Fine, M., 2026. Steroid hormones dynamics during coral reproduction: Multi-year patterns in Acropora eurystoma from the Red Sea. iScience 29, 116205.
• Barocas, A., Weisbein, Y., Geffen, E., 2026. Creek Beds and Cape Hares: Spatial and Seasonal Determinants of Caracal Movement and Diet in a Hyperarid Desert Ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution 16, e73117.
• Ensslin, A., et al. 2026, Status and future of seed conservation of threatened plants in the post-2020 era. Plants People Planet
• Erinjery, J.J., Singh, M., Johnson, O., Kent, R., 2026. Seeing the Canopies for the Forest: Habitat Utilization Mapping Using Habitat Structure and Composition. American Journal of Primatology 88, e70113.
• Franzén, M., Jansson, N., Avci, M., Brin, A., Brustel, H., Budka, J., Buse, J., Carpaneto, G., Chiari, S., Čížek, L., Taxonomic and methodological biases in saproxylic beetles: Body size, trophic group and detection probability. Insect Conservation and Diversity.
  
• Freiberg, Y., Eliani-Russak, E., Katzir, R., Ben-Hur, M., Reichmann, O., Golan, R., 2026. Decades-Long Peat Decomposition and Preservation Under Cropland and Groundwater Management. Soil Use and Management 42, e70283.
  
• Galil, Bella S., Bronstein, O., Gayer, K., Goren, M., 2026. Anthropogenic Disturbance Threatens the Endangered Tufted Ghost Crab, Ocypode cursor. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 36, e70321.
• Galil, B., Douek, J., Paz, G., Mendelson, M., Goren, M., 2026. Natural and anthropogenic environmental drivers shaping recovery of the invasive brown mussel Perna perna from severe heatwave. BioInvasions Records 15, 483-502.
• Georgiadis, C., Manolas, N., Davranoglou, L.-R., Demetriou, J., Kakiopoulos, G., Koutsoukos, E., Tankovic, E., Karris, G., 2026. Contribution to the invertebrate fauna of the islets in the Inner Ionian Sea Archipelago, Greece. Journal of Natural History 60, 857-871.
• Ghermandi, A., Depietri, Y., Orenstein, D.E., 2026. Human-nature interactions through a digital prism: Heterogeneity in user socio-demographics and content across social media platforms. Landscape and Urban Planning 268, 105568.
• Geffen, E., Hefner, R., Ucko, M., Leader, N., Barocas, A., 2026. Evolutionary history and seasonal dynamics shape interspecific interactions between two sympatric desert fox species. Animal Behaviour 239, 123675.
• Gicquel, M., et al. 2026. Age-Specific Survival Estimation of a Eurasian Crane Population Highlights a Long-Term Decline in Juvenile Survival. Ecology and Evolution 16, e72779.
• Gicquel, M., et al., 2026. Long-term shifts in the spatial distribution of Common Cranes Grus grus. Journal of Ornithology.
• Golumbic, Y.N., Gueta, T., Arkin, N., Lavie-Alon, N., Dayan, T., 2026. From Concept to Reality: Establishing a National Center for Participatory Sciences at the Natural History Museum. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice.
• Guo, Z., Liu, R., Sternberg, M., Zhao, W., 2026. Slope aspect modulates elevational patterns of ground–dwelling arthropod alpha diversity, but not beta diversity. Applied Soil Ecology 219, 106786
• Kan‐Lingwood, N.Y., Sagi, L., Templeton, A.R., Shahar, N., Altman, A., Gordon, N., Rubenstein, D.I., Bouskila, A., Bar‐David, S., 2026. Resource management as a conservation tool to impact genetic diversity through mating patterns in wild populations. Ecological Applications 36, e70226.
• Katsanevakis, S., Belmaker, J., Rilov, G., Yeruham, E., Konstantinidis, A., Papazekou, M., Giakoumi, S., Mazaris, A.D., Reconsidering the role of introduced species in the climate-affected and highly invaded eastern Mediterranean. Conservation Biology,  e70288.
• Kiat, Y., Haviv, E., Perlman, Y., Schekler, I., Connectivity between breeding sites, wintering areas, and migration routes in Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) breeding in the Western Palaearctic. Ibis.
• Lavie, N., Levinson, Y., Rothman, J.M., Hawlena, D., 2026. A recipe for recovery: Diet as a decisive tool in species conservation. Oikos, e12431.
• Liu, R., Guo, Z., Penuelas, J., Sternberg, M., 2026. Interannual climatic variability outweighs microhabitat effects on ground-active arthropod diversity in a semi-arid sandy ecosystem. Geoderma 468, 117794.
• Mansoldo, M.D.C., et al. 2026. A Global Compendium of Nature-based Solutions in Small-Medium Islands. Scientific Data 13, 159
• Mayrose, A., Hatzofe, O., Miller, Y., Troupin, D., Sapir, N., 2026. Disrupted natal habitat imprinting triggers long-distance dispersal in captive-bred eagles. Ornithological Applications.
• Mereu, P., et al. 2026. Genetic diversity and conservation implications for European Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvus): Insights from mitochondrial D-loop HVR1. Scientific Reports 16, 13225.
• Mohr, C., Le Billon, P., Leshem, Y., Bontzorlos, V., Roulin, A., 2026. Environmental Bridgebuilding: Connecting People Through Nature Conservation. The Example of the Barn Owl. Ecology and Evolution 16, e73795.
• Nissan, Y., Inbar, S., Privman, E., Yovel, Y., Razgour, O., 2026. Urbanisation Drives Microevolution in the Egyptian Fruit Bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). Evolutionary Applications 19, e70243.
• Oren, A., Neri, R.e., Chernihovsky, N., Tarazi, E., Shashar, N., 2026. Micro-fragmentation of four coral species towards the assembly of modular 3D structures for restoration. Scientific Reports 16, 26215.
• Rahmanian, S., et al. 2026. Abiotic and biotic controls of non-native perennial plant success in drylands. Nature Ecology & Evolution
• Renan, S., Greenbaum, G., Speyer, E., Ben-Nun, T., Ziv, A., Templeton, A.R., Bouskila, A., Bar-David, S., 2026. From social patterns to genetic structure: the reintroduced Asiatic wild ass (Equus hemionus) in the Negev Desert. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 72, 173-186.
• Ribeiro-Júnior, M.A., Azevedo, J.A.R., Nogueira, C.d.C., Amaral, S., 2026. Endemism and regionalization patterns of squamate reptiles in Amazonia. Nature Communications.
  
• Rilov, G., Burrows, M.T., Bates, A.E., Seabra, R., Lima, F., Mazaris, A.D., Queirós, A.M., Smale, D., Garrabou, J., Dong, Y.-W., Belmaker, J., Guy-Haim, T., Wahl, M., Helmuth, B., 2026. Detecting marine climate change refugia using “physiological seascapes”. Biological Conservation 322, 112026.
  
• Rozenberg, G., Carmel, Y., Eshel, G., Blank, L., 2026. Comparing weed abundance and composition in conventional tillage vs. early-phase conservation agriculture incorporating winter cover crops. Farming System 4, 100223.
• Rozman, G., Charter, M., 2026. Nest-box supplementation can amplify intraspecific exploitation: RFID reveals frequent nest switching and lower fledging success in barn owls. Journal of Applied Ecology 63, e70506.
• Sassoon, S., Tchernov, D., Levy, Y., 2026. Sink and swim: Tracking submergence patterns and anomalous behavior in sea turtles. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 594, 152156.
• Savva, I., Cai, L.L., Marcou, M., Angel, D., 2026. The untold story of Sea Caves: Lost and found anthropogenic debris in confined marine environments. Marine Pollution Bulletin 223, 119065.
• Schwarzfuchs, E.N., Strange birds of a feather: Israeli common myna, between invasiveness and belonging. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 0, 25148486251395505.
• Schwarzfuchs, E.N., Ben-Ami, D., Dayan, T., 2026. Have We Ever Been Natural? Rethinking Nature Conservation in the Anthropocene. Society & Natural Resources, 1-16.
• Shapira, O., Izhaki, I., Zemah-Shamir, S., Malkinson, D., 2026. How Pastoral Are Pastoral Landscapes? Scavenger Assemblage Structure in Human-Dominated Landscapes: A Case Study From Mediterranean Pastures. Ecology and Evolution 16, e72839.
• Sheizaf, I., Itzkovich, E., Chipman, A.D., 2026. A Novel Light-Induced Collective Circular Movement in Armadillo sordidus Isopods. Ecology and Evolution 16, e73487.
• Sørensen, O.J.R., Makovsky, Y., Pittman, S.J., van Rijn, I., Einbinder, S., Berkström, C., Arlé, E., Tchernov, D., 2026. Multiscale species distribution models reveal seascape niche partitioning and overlap in native and alien fishes. Landscape Ecology.
• Tadesse, Z., Belayneh, R., Fireman, J., Coll, M., Shelef, O., 2026. Soil microarthropod assemblage under various vegetation covers: A bioindicator approach in agriculture. Applied Soil Ecology 218, 106746.
• Tichon, J., Lapid, R., King, R., Freiman, E., Spiegel, O., Baruchi, E., Atar, A., Bar-David, S., Saltz, D., Monitoring wildlife health for diseases with visible signs by integrating camera traps with marked individuals. Conservation Biology, e70283.
• Vilizzi, L., et al. 2026. Global framework for communication of biological invasion risks. Management of Biological Invasions 17, 1-33
  
• Yesharim, M., Perl, R.G.B., Roll, U., Gafny, S., Geffen, E., Ram, Y., 2026. Near-perfect photo-ID of the Hula painted frog with zero-shot deep local-feature matching. Ecological Informatics, 103942.
  
• Zheng, Z., Li, G., Wang, C., Zhang, X., Levin, N., 2026. Mapping the extent, type and remnant areas of the coastal dunes of Australia and New Zealand by integrating multi-source data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 152, 105464.
  
• Zuriel, Y.E., Aharoni, I., Atch, D., Galili, O., Tchernov, D., Scheinin, A., Kerem, D., 2026. Structural Variation in Whistle Patterns of Two Coastal Dolphin Species Co-Occurring in the Southern Israeli Mediterranean Sea. Marine Mammal Science 42, e70243.
  

2025

• Arnon A, Wronski T, Lalzar M, Landau SY, Izhaki I, Malkinson D. 2025. Dietary composition and overlap between cattle and endangered mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella). Scientific Reports 15:20002.
• Ashkenazi E, Wachtel I, Bar-Oz G, Marom R, Horwitz LK. 2025. An Ecological Comparison of Two Abandoned Heritage Orchards in Northern Israel. Heritage 8:76
• Ashkenazi, E., Šimáček, P., Chen, Y., 2025. The Geographic, Archaeological and Agricultural Anchors Influencing Historic Migrations of the Negev Bedouin. Global Environment 18, 569-602.
• Atzeni, L., Cushman, S.A., Ilany, A., Geffen, E., Macdonald, D.W., 2026. Using spatially explicit individual-based modelling to evaluate the ecological feasibility of big cat reintroduction: the example of the Arabian leopard. Ecological Modelling 511, 111356.
• Barinova, S., Gabyshev, V.A., Borisov, B., Rybnikov, S.R., 2025. Influence of Arctic Conditions on the Diatom Diversity of Islands Within the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna Region. Diversity 17, 808.
• Barr, Y., Abelson, A., 2025. Potential Hierarchical Interactions of Megafauna Species at a Cleaning Station. Fishes 10, 568.
• Beeri I. 2025. Who suffers the most? Wild boars, perceived harm, and local politics: Governance challenges in urban human-wildlife conflicts. Cities 165:106083.
• Beierkuhnlein C, et al. 2025. Towards a comprehensive geodiversity - biodiversity nexus in terrestrial ecosystems. Earth-Science Reviews 264:105075.
• Bellingeri M, et al. 2025. Investigating the presence of different bottlenose dolphin ecotypes in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientific Reports 15:5526.
• Benoliel D, Bourgeois-Gironde S. 2025. Ecosystem services ip: Exploiting natural resources for innovation. University of Illinois Law Review 2025.
• Ben-Natan, D., Thorogood, C., 2025. A revision of the genus Cistanche (Orobanchaceae) in Israel, and considerations for its taxonomic circumscription in the Middle East. PhytoKeys 260.
• Bigal E, Livne L, Zemah-Shamir Z, Morick D, Einbinder S, Tchernov D, Scheinin A. 2025. Fatal shark incident in the eastern Mediterranean Sea highlights urgent need for enhanced management measures. Ocean & Coastal Management 269:107848
• Bishop, G.A., et al. 2025. Critical habitat thresholds for effective pollinator conservation in agricultural landscapes. Science 389, 1314-1319
• Caetano, G.H.O., Murali, G., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Vardi, R., Greenspoon, L., Meiri, S., Roll, U., 2025. The future-focused Proactive Conservation Index highlights unrecognized global priorities for vertebrate conservation. PLOS Biology 23, e3003422.
• Cerutti JMB, Holzman R, Kiflawi M, Fine M. 2025. Regionalisation of Red Sea coral reefs based on remotely sensed environmental data identifies two distinct regions that align with large-scale climatic forcings. Coral Reefs 44:1127-1142.
• Darel, O., Rybak, O., Ben-Levy, A., Kolodny, G., Kis-Papo, T., Lavie-Alon, N., Vidan, R., Kolodny, O., Effective citizen science implementation reveals ecological and conservation insights for two amphibian species. Journal of Zoology.
• Darras KFA, et al. 2025. Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34:e70021.
• De Vitis, et al. 2025. Seed banking of mediterranean coastal plants: an analysis to identify current seed availability and gaps to guide future seed collection and habitat restoration activities. Journal of Coastal Conservation 29, 50.
• Dorrestein A, et al. 2025. Factors affecting the detection probability of a critically endangered flying-fox: consequences for monitoring and conservation. Wildlife Research 52, WR24030
• Dubos N, Jitten P, Montfort F, Grinand C, Rakotondrasoa EF, Nourtier M. 2025. Predicted population declines driven by climate change can be mitigated with a new protected area in endemic tetrapods from Madagascar. Journal for Nature Conservation 86:126925.
• Efrat R, Lehnardt Y, Berkowic D, Leshem Y, Dor R, Bragin A, Bragin E, Katzner T, Sapir N. 2025. Using GPS tracking data to validate the conservation value of bird migration counts. Biological Conservation 302:110959.
• Efrat, R., Lehnardt, Y., Bragin, A., Bragin, E., Avgar, T., Katzner, T., Sapir, N., 2025. Age-dependent response to anthropogenic habitat during migration of an endangered raptor. Current Biology 35, 4301-4308.e4303.
• Fady B, et al. 2025. Native Trees of the Mediterranean Region: Distribution, Diversity and Conservation Challenges. Current Forestry Reports 11:20.
• Ferrer Obiol J, et al. 2025. Evolutionarily distinct lineages of a migratory bird of prey show divergent responses to climate change. Nature Communications 16:3503.
• Fialas PC, et al. 2025. Changes in community composition and functional diversity of European bats under climate change. Conservation Biology 39:e70025.
• Franzen M, et al. 2025. Taxonomic and Trophic Groups Mediate Latitudinal Variation in Saproxylic Beetle Species Richness and Body Size Across Western Palaearctic Oak Forests. Ecology and Evolution 15:e71574.
• Fu, F., Wang, S., Wu, X., Chen, S., Tan, Z., Ye, C., Grünzweig, J.M., 2025. Integrating hydrological impacts for cost-effective dryland ecological restoration. Communications Earth & Environment 6, 667.
• Gavagnach, C., Dayan, T., Ben-Ami, D., 2025. The impact of livestock guarding dogs on gazelles and jackals in the Golan Heights. Global Ecology and Conservation 62, e03754.
• Gavriel T, et al. 2025. Using dark diversity to disentangle the effects of protection and habitat quality on species diversity. Biological Conservation 305:111096.
• Gidron O, Shochat E, Gur E, Ovadia O. 2025. Characterization of male courtship home ranges and short-distance migration corridor in a remnant MacQueen's Bustard population. Global Ecology and Conservation 58:e03449
• Goldstein, K., Rodrigues, B., Jacobetty, P., Hahn-Madole, K., Jörgens, H., Kolleck, N., 2025. The disappearance of land use from UNFCCC decisions: A guided topic analysis. Land Use Policy 158, 107722.
• Greenspoon, L., Ramot, N., Moran, U., Roll, U., Phillips, R., Noor, E., Milo, R., 2025. The global biomass of mammals since 1850. Nature Communications 16, 8338.
• Hadad, E., Kosicki, J.Z., Yosef, R., 2025. The return of the Caracal Caracal caracal: 56 Years of Population Changes in Israel. Ecological Modelling 508, 111197.
• Handel M, Spiegel O, Shwartz A. Field margins as ecological corridors: Uncovering connectivity in agricultural landscapes using high-resolution tracking data and translocation experiments. Journal of Applied Ecology 
• Hocherman T, Trop T, Ghermandi A. 2025. Time lags in environmental governance: A critical review. Ambio.
• Jarić, I., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., Molnár, Z., Arbieu, U., Canavan, S., Correia, R.A., Essl, F., Kamelamela, K.L., Ladle, R.J., Maurice, A.-C., Meinard, Y., Novoa, A., Nuñez, M.A., Pyšek, P., Roll, U., Sbragaglia, V., Shackleton, R.T., Shani, L., Sherren, K., Teff-Seker, Y., Vaz, A.S., Wehi, P.M., Jeschke, J.M., 2025. Cultural integration of invasive species. npj Biodiversity 4, 25.
• Iezekiel S, Kosicki JZ, Yosef R, Bakaloudis DE, Vlachos CG. 2025. Modelling growth rates and developing an age determination tool for nestling Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata. Annals of Applied Biology 187:99-110.
• Jiguet F, et al. 2025. GNSS spoofing in conflict zones disrupts wildlife tracking and hampers research and conservation efforts. Nature Communications 16:1199.
• Kaplan Mintz K, Segal-Klein H, Ofek S, Lewinsohn D. 2025. Support for mushroom picking policy in forests: the role of values and awareness. Journal of Environmental Psychology 105:102615.
• Keasar T, Coll M, Lubin Y, Segoli M, van Nouhuys S, Wajnberg E, Tal A. 2025. Judiciary independence: Why should conservation ecologists care? Conservation Science and Practice 7:e70014.
• Kelling, M., Scholz, C., Roeleke, M., Blohm, T., Pufelski, J., Nathan, R., Toledo, S., Jeltsch, F., Voigt, C.C., 2026. Pest suppression services of insectivorous bats in intensively managed arable land benefit from adjacent near-natural areas. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 397, 110101.
• Lampert, A., 2025. Eradicating Common Populations of Invasive Species Involves Balancing Efficiency and Fairness. Natural Resource Modeling 38, e70007.
• Leihy RI, McGeoch MA, Clarke DA, Peake L, Buba Y, Belmaker J, Chown SL. 2025. Antarctic Biosecurity Policy Effectively Manages the Rates of Alien Introductions. Earth's Future 13:e2024EF005405.
• Levi A, Meir O, Vilk O, Nathan R, Toledo S, Kolodny O, Vortman Y. 2025. Homing through ecological barriers in Balkan pond turtles. Biology Letters 21:20240442.
• Liang , T., Murali, G., Wang , P., Ding , G.-h., Xiong , J.-l., Wang , Y.-m., An , J., Borzée, A., Shi , L., Spatial Phylogenetic Analysis of Chinese Lizards: Insights Into Ecological Drivers and Conservation Gaps. Integrative Conservation.
• Liang, T., Liberman, Y.-R., Dubiner, S., Meiri, S., 2025. Anti-Snake Ballistic Missiles: Explosions Trigger Immediate Movement in Snakes. Ethology.
• Livne, H., Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, E., Gruntman, M., Small spaces, big potential: the ecological and planning value of shared residential yards. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1-20.
• Ma, T., Zhong, L., Foggin, J.M., Wang, P., 2025. Policy perceptions and local stakeholder engagement in forest co-management in the Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin, China. Forest Policy and Economics 181, 103655.
• Manandhar P, et al. 2025. Feeding Habits of Leopards and Leopard Cats in the Fragmented Forests Surrounding the Kathmandu Valley. Ecology and Evolution 15:e70927.
• Mancini G, Santini L, Cazalis V, Ficetola GF, Meiri S, Roll U, Silvestri S, Pincheira-Donoso D, Di Marco M. 2025. Generation length of the world's amphibians and reptiles. Ecography n/a:e07527.
• Mayrose, A., Hatzofe, O., Troupin, D., Sapir, N., 2025. Dispersal and survival of Aquila fasciata (Bonelli’s Eagle) differ across arid, semi-arid, and Mediterranean natal habitats. Ornithology.
• Mevorach Y, et al. 2025. Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Along the Coast of Israel: Abundance and Social Structure. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 35:e70181.
• Michael-Bitton G, Zemah-Shamir S, Portnov B. 2025. Managing stream restoration: Framing and assessing the stream ecosystem services and biodiversity index (SESBI). Journal of Environmental Management 388:125938.
• Nachtom Catalan N, Keasar T, Keasar C, Nagari M. 2025. Spillover of managed bumblebees from Mediterranean orchards during mass flowering causes minor short-term ecological impacts. Apidologie 56:45.
• O'Dwyer A, Kark S, Levin N. 2025. Islands on fire: Fire and threatened species patterns across Australia's islands. Biological Conservation 310:111335.
• Peterson LA, Awerbuch PM, Spatari S. When floodplain restoration meets socio-ecological goals for rural stormwater management. Journal of Industrial Ecology.
• Preiss-Bloom S, Shamon H, Ben-Ami D, Dayan T. 2025. Landscape of risk: responses of grey wolves to lethal control in a mosaic landscape. European Journal of Wildlife Research 71:24.
• Rohner CA, et al. 2025. Important Shark and Ray Areas can inform conservation planning in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. iScience 28:113192
• Rozenberg, G., Carmel, Y., Eshel, G., Blank, L., Short-term responses in weed spatial patterns during early adoption of conservation agriculture practices. Pest Management Science.
• Rosenberg, Y., Wiedenhofer, D., Virág, D., Bar-Sella, G., Greenspoon, L., Herrnstadt, B., Akenji, L., Phillips, R., Milo, R., 2025. Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
• Russo D, Soprano F, Cistrone L, Einav A, Schäckermann J, Ekklisiarchos I, Korine C. 2025. Precision foraging: Bats in organic desert palm plantations hunt where it is most needed. Global Ecology and Conservation 58:e03467.
• Saccò M, et al. 2025. Advancing subterranean conservation through Global Research on eDNA in Groundwaters (GReG). Subterranean Biology 53.
• Sade D, et al. 2025. From herbarium to life: Implications of reviving historical fungi for modern plant pathology and agriculture. iScience 28:112904.
• Sassoon S, Suari Y, Levy Y. 2025. Eastern Mediterranean sea turtles in their epipelagic phase: First records of monthly growth rates and effects of a plastic pollutant. Regional Studies in Marine Science 82:104056.
• Schmidt, L.-M., Anderson Benaim, G., Bronstein, O., 2025. Unravelling echinoid mass mortalities: a global overview of mechanisms, spatio-temporal trends, and taxonomic insights. Biological Reviews.
• Schwarz R, Ziv Y. Shedding light on biodiversity: reviewing existing knowledge and exploring hypothesised impacts of agrophotovoltaics. Biological Reviews.
• Shabtay A, et al. 2025. Lessons learned by addressing challenges to deep-sea conservation planning in the Southeastern Mediterranean Sea: linking science to practice. Ocean & Coastal Management 267:107700.
• Shaked Mandelberg Y, Zemah-Shamir Z, Schwartz Belkin I, Brenner S, Zemah-Shamir S. 2025. Marine Zoning: A Two-Decade Bibliographic Analysis—A Systematic Review. Sustainability 17:1724.
• Schwarzfuchs EN, Orenstein DE, Ben-Ami D, Dayan T. 2025. A Rich Person’s Problem? Socio-Ecological Analysis of Human-Wild Boar Conflict Distribution in an Urban Setting. Human Ecology.
• Schekler, I., Halabi, E., Sapir, N., Shimshoni, I., Hatzofe, O., Perlman, Y., Kiat, Y., 2025. Integrating AI into ecology for fully automated monitoring of endangered seabird breeding colonies. Ecological Informatics 91, 103380.
• Song, Y., et al. 2025. Advancing geospatial methods for addressing global resource and sustainability challenges. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 223, 108517.
• Sørensen OJR, et al. Bridging the gap in deep seafloor management: Ultra fine-scale ecological habitat characterization of large seascapes. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation.
• Spanier, E., 2025. Lobsters of the Southeastern Levantine Sea and the Northern Red Sea—An Up-to-Date Review. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13, 1952.
• Speight O, Morgan WH, White TB, Sainsbury KA, Bouskila A, Rotem G, Smith RK, Sutherland WJ, Watson MJ, Christie AP. Exploring gaps, biases, and research priorities in the evidence for reptile conservation actions. Conservation Biology e70073.
• Starostinetsky Malonek T, et al. 2025. Plasma chemistry and hematology of Eastern Mediterranean Sea green turtles undergoing rehabilitation. Biodiversity and Conservation 34:85-103.
• Süle G, et al. 2025. Pollinator-Promoting Interventions in European Urban Habitats—A Synthesis. Ecology Letters 28:e70189.
• Talbi R, Gavish Y, Izhaki I, Bar-Massada A. 2025. Reptile assemblages in eastern Mediterranean maquis are shaped by climate, land management, habitat structure and a novel threat of egret predation. Biological Conservation 305:111072.
• Talmon, I., Pekarsky, S., Bartan, Y., Thie, N., Getz, W.M., Kamath, P.L., Bowie, R.C.K., Nathan, R., 2025. Using wild-animal tracking for detecting and managing disease outbreaks. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 40, 760-771.
• Tourbez C, Fiordaliso W, Bar-Massada A, Dolev A, Michez D, Dorchin A. 2025. Commercial honey bee keeping compromises wild bee conservation in Mediterranean nature reserves. Apidologie 56:11
• Vaadia, G., Acácio, M., Agassi, T., Anglister, N., Miller, Y., Hatzofe, O., Mateo-Tomás, P., Rodríguez-Pérez, J., Fernández-García, M., Olea, P.P., Otero, I., Pinter-Wollman, N., Shahar, M., Spiegel, O., Using accelerometer-based behavioural classification to enhance scavenger conservation. Journal of Applied Ecology.
• Vardi, R., Roll, U., 2025. Measuring human-nature interactions across digital platforms—an example from Israeli wildflowers. Biodiversity and Conservation.
• Vardi, R., Murali, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G.H., Roll, U., Meiri, S., 2025. Effects of Future Climate Extreme Heat Events and Land Use Changes on Land Vertebrates. Global Change Biology 31, e70625.
• Wanek E, Esteban-Cantillo OJ, Bourgeois-Gironde S. 2025. Valuing marine plankton: a review of ecosystem services and disservices and an expert assessment of the potential of area-based protection. Frontiers in Marine Science Volume 12 - 2025.
• Wasserlauf, Y., Gancz, A., Dov, A.B., Efrat, R., Sapir, N., Dor, R., Atar, A., Baruchi, E., Mizrahi, A., Sabach, A., Spiegel, O., 2025. Egyptian Nightjars are residents in the Dead Sea region, showing a high year-round roost fidelity. Journal of Ornithology.
• Wu NC, et al. 2025. A user’s guide for understanding reptile and amphibian hydroregulation and climate change impacts. Conservation Physiology 13.
• Yosef R, Kumbhojkar S. 2025. Kleptoparasitism and Coexistence: Resource Competition Between Indian Leopards and Striped Hyenas. Animals 15:784.
• Zemah-Shamir S, Schwartz Belkin I, Zemah-Shamir Z, Portman ME. 2025. Introducing dynamics into coastal recreational management: Humans-sharks interactions case study. Ocean & Coastal Management 261:107524.
• Zhang, S., Meiri S, Holyoak M, Wang J, Wang Y, Chen C.. 2025. Demand for small- and large-ranged reptiles in worldwide wildlife trade. Conservation Biology: e70095.

2024

• Allegrini, C., Korine, C., Krasnov, B.R., 2024. Climatic gradients and forest composition shape bat communities in Eastern Mediterranean pine plantations. Integrative Zoology.
• Arazy O, Kaplan-Mintz K, Malkinson D, Nagar Y. 2024. A local community on a global collective intelligence platform: A case study of individual preferences and collective bias in ecological citizen science. PLoS One 19:e0308552.
• Armstrong EE, et al. 2024. Unraveling the genomic diversity and admixture history of captive tigers in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121:e2402924121.
• Atzeni, L., Ilany, A., Geffen, E., Cushman, S.A., Kaszta, Ż., Macdonald, D.W., 2024. Reviving the Arabian leopard: Harnessing historical data to map habitat and pave the way for reintroduction. Biological Conservation 291, 110440.
• Azrieli B, et al. 2024. Characterising a potential nearshore nursery ground for the blackchin guitarfish (Glaucostegus cemiculus) in Ma’agan Michael, Israel. Frontiers in Marine Science 11.
• Bănăduc, D., et al.2024. Multi-Interacting Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors on Freshwater Ecosystems: Their Current Status and Future Prospects for 21st Century. Water 16, 1483.
• Barazani, O., Lifshitz, D., Mayzlish-Gati, E., 2024. Conservation of plant genetic resources in the southern Levant. Scientia Horticulturae 331, 113124.
• Ben-Dor E, Dag A, Perelberg A, Chen T, Ben Dor Y, Low Ramati D, Tietel Z, Galili E, Heinze B, Barazani O. 2024. Genetic and phenotypic evidence suggest the existence of indigenous olive population of wild var. sylvestris in the Carmel coast, southern Levant. BMC Plant Biology 24:896.
• Berger-Tal, O., et al.  2024. Leveraging AI to improve evidence synthesis in conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 39, 548-557.
• Bigal E, Livne L, Zemah-Shamir Z, Levy T, Shemesh E, Tchernov D, Scheinin A. 2024. Shark shuffle: segregated co-occurrence of multiple dusky and sandbar lineages at a human-altered habitat in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Scientific Reports 14:19924.
• Bonsen GT, Wallach AD, Ben-Ami D, Keynan O, Khalilieh A, Dahdal Y, Ramp D. 2024. Navigating complex geopolitical landscapes: Challenges in conserving the endangered Arabian wolf. Biological Conservation 296:110655.
• Buba, Y., Kiflawi, M., McGeoch, M.A., Belmaker, J., 2024.  Evaluating models for estimating introduction rates of alien species from discovery records. Global Ecology and Biogeography, e13859.
• Burdett, H.L., Albright, R., Foster, G.L., Mass, T., Page, T.M., Rinkevich, B., Schoepf, V., Silverman, J., Kamenos, N.A., 2024. Including environmental and climatic considerations for sustainable coral reef restoration. Plos Biology 22, e3002542.
• Carmi N, Becker N, Cohen S, Zemah-Shamir Z, Zemah-Shamir S. 2024. Shattering negative stigmas and creating empathy and willingness to advocate for unpopular endangered species: evidence from shark watching in Israel. Annals of Leisure Research 27:505-524.
• Chowdhury, S., Fuller, R.A., Ahmed, S., Alam, S., Callaghan, C.T., Das, P., Correia, R.A., Di Marco, M., Di Minin, E., Jarić, I., Labi, M.M., Ladle, R.J., Rokonuzzaman, M., Roll, U., Sbragaglia, V., Siddika, A., Bonn, A., 2024. Using social media records to inform conservation planning. Conservation Biology 38, e14161.
• Chowdhury, S., Ahmed, S., Alam, S., Callaghan, C.T., Das, P., Di Marco, M., Di Minin, E., Jarić, I., Labi, M.M., Rokonuzzaman, M., Roll, U., Sbragaglia, V., Siddika, A., Bonn, A., 2024  A protocol for harvesting biodiversity data from Facebook. Conservation Biology, e14257.
• Curk T, et al. 2024. Integrating threat mapping and animal movement data to identify high-risk areas for endangered mobile species. Animal Conservation.
• Davidovich, U., Wachtel, I., Halevi, R., Zidon, R., Lazagabaster, I.A., Rovelli, V., Meiri, M., Porat, R., Ullman, M., Jacobi, Y., Ilany, A., Marom, N., Porat, N., 2024. Leopard traps in the Judean Desert reveal long-term impact of humans on top predator populations. Quaternary Science Reviews 333, 108667.
• Denneboom, D., Bar-Massada, A., Shwartz, A., 2024. Wildlife mortality risk posed by high and low traffic roads. Conservation Biology, e14159.
• Dubiner, S., Vardi, R., Meiri, S., Levin, E., 2024. Stressed reptiles pay the metabolic price of war. Ecology, e4370.
• Fuks, D., et al. 2024. Orphan crops of archaeology-based crop history research. Plants, People, Planet.
• Galil, B.S., Goren, M., Gayer, K., Bronstein, O., 2024. No place to call home: Distribution patterns of the tufted ghost crab, Ocypode cursor, populations in nature reserves, Israel, Eastern Mediterranean. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 34, e4116.
• Golumbic YN. 2024. Where does the balance lie? Scientific, societal, and individual goals of citizen science projects. Environmental Science & Policy 159:103828.
• Gombobaatar S, Ususkhjargal D, Yosef R. 2024. A Review of the Conservation Status of Shorebirds in Mongolia. Animals 14:1752.
• Grossmark Y, Azriali Zohar B, Barash A, Portman ME. Incorporation of human–wildlife interactions in ecosystem-based management to enhance conservation of endangered guitarfish. Conservation Biology e14327.
• Gupta, S.K., Ben-dor, E., Sternberg, M., 2024. Unveiling the Invasion: Advancing Ecological Mapping of Heterotheca Subaxillaris Through Integrated Remote Sensing Techniques With Drones and Satellites. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 17, 7193-7211.
• Heimpel GE, Abram PK, Causton CE, Celis SL, Coll M, Hardy ICW, Mangel M, Mills NJ, Segoli M. 2024. A benefit–risk analysis for biological control introductions based on the protection of native biodiversity. Ecological Applications 34:e3012.
• Henriksen, M.V., Arlé, E., Pili, A., Clarke, D.A., García-Berthou, E., Groom, Q., Lenzner, B., Meyer, C., Seebens, H., Tingley, R., Winter, M., McGeoch, M.A., 2024. Global indicators of the environmental impacts of invasive alien species and their information adequacy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 379, 20230323.
• Hepner Ucko O, Arle E, Malamud S, Winters G, Belmaker J. 2024. Surprising widespread Cymodocea nodosa occurrence along Israel’s Mediterranean coast and Implications for Seagrass Conservation in a hotspot of climate change. Mediterranean Marine Science 25:500-510.
• Holzer JM, et al. 2024. Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity. Ecology and Society 29.
• Horesh SJA, Ovadia O. 2024. Predicting habitat suitability of the critically endangered Be'er Sheva fringe-fingered lizard. Ecology and Evolution 14:e70108.
• Iezekiel S, Yosef R, Bakaloudis DE, Papakosta M, Vlachos CG, Antoniou A. 2024. Breeding biology of Bonelli’s Eagle (Aquila fasciata) in Cyprus. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 70:241-246.
• Janssen J, Ineich I, Shacham B, Vasconcelos R, Kaiser H. 2024. Ethnozoological Review on the Trade, Human Alimentation, and Cultural Use of Skinks (Reptilia, Scincidae). Journal of Ethnobiology 44:221-233.
• Kaplan Mintz K, Ayalon O, Eshet T, Nathan O. 2024. The influence of social context and activity on the emotional well-being of forest visitors: A field study. Journal of Environmental Psychology 94:102234.
• Kedem, R., Halasah, S., Ide, T., Feitelson, E., 2024. The role of environmental professionals in post-conflict transboundary cooperation: The cases of Israel and Jordan. Environmental Science & Policy 151, 103623.
• Kedem, R., Feitelson, E., Halasah, S., Teff-Seker, Y., 2024. Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel. Global Environmental Politics 24, 138-154.
• Klass, K., 2024. Population level behavioural responses to variation in habitat quality across multiple locations in a fragmented landscape. Animal Behaviour 207, 277-293.
• Kumbhojkar S, Mahabal A, Rakholia S, Yosef R. 2024. Avian and Mammalian Diversity and Abundance in Jhalana Reserve Forest, Jaipur, India. Animals 14:2939.
• Lampert, A., 2024. Optimizing strategies for slowing the spread of invasive species. PLoS Computational Biology 20, e1011996.
• Lehnardt, Y., Barber, J.R., Berger-Tal, O., 2024. Effects of wind turbine noise on songbird behavior during nonbreeding season. Conservation Biology, e14188.
• Levin N, Cooper RM, Kark S. 2024. Quantifying Night Sky Brightness as a Stressor for Coastal Ecosystems in Moreton Bay, Queensland. Remote Sensing 16:3828.
• Levy A, Barash A, Zaguri C, Hadad A, Polsky P. 2024. Improving deep learning based bluespotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura Lymma) recognition. Ecological Informatics 82:102737.
• Levy O, Shahar S. 2024. Artificial Intelligence for Climate Change Biology: From Data Collection to Predictions. Integrative and Comparative Biology 64:953-974.
• Levy, T., Ghermandi, A., Lehahn, Y., Edelist, D., Angel, D.L., 2024. Monitoring jellyfish outbreaks along Israel's Mediterranean coast using digital footprints. Science of the Total Environment 922, 171275.
• Lewin, A., Murali, G., Rachmilevitch, S., Roll, U., 2024. Global evaluation of current and future threats to drylands and their vertebrate biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
• Liberman, Y.-R., Ben-Ami, F., Meiri, S., 2024. Artificial cover objects as a tool for the survey and conservation of herpetofauna. Biodiversity and Conservation.
• Lindken, T., et al. 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology 30, e17107.
• Lovász L, et al. 2024. Rewilded horses in European nature conservation – a genetics, ethics, and welfare perspective. Biological Reviews.
• Martignoni MM, Kolodny O. 2024. Microbiome transfer from native to invasive species may increase invasion risk. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291:20241318.
• Marom, N., Peretz, A.O., Lazagabaster, I.A., Meiri, M., Meiri, S., 2024. Water voles of Lake Hula: assessing their past, present, and future. European Journal of Wildlife Research 70, 34.
• Mayrose, A., Haviv, E., Hatzofe, O., Troupin, D., Elroy, M., Sapir, N., 2024. Bonelli’s Eagle electrocution risk in Israel can be reduced by 80% by insulating only 4% of the pylons. Ornithological Applications.
• Meiri, M., Bar-Oz, G., 2024. Unraveling the diversity and cultural heritage of fruit crops through paleogenomics. Trends in Genetics.
• Meroz, A.M., Babad, A., Levin, N., 2024. Identifying the Climatic and Anthropogenic Impact on Vegetation Surrounding the Natural Springs of the Arava Valley Using Remote Sensing Methods. Land 13, 361.
• Ohayon S, et al. 2024. Fully protected marine areas linked to reduced home ranges of fishes. Fish and Fisheries.
• Oron, S., Friedlander, A.M., Sala, E., Goodman-Tchernov, B.N., 2024. Shallow water foraminifera from Niue and Beveridge Reef (South Pacific): insights into ecological significance and ecosystem integrity. Royal Society Open Science 11, 230997.
• Oswald, K.N., Berger-Tal, O., Roll, U., 2024. Small-scale land-use change effects on breeding success in a desert-living social bird. Behavioral Ecology.
• Qi, T., Li, Y., Huang, M., Luo, B., Peng, Z., Wang, W., Li, S., Degen, A.A., Shang, Z., 2024. Land intensification use scenarios based on urban land suitability assessment of the national park. Sustainable Cities and Society 102, 105229.
• Raz, S., Hila, S., Assaf, S., 2024. Ecological, social and economic benefits of organic olive farming outweigh those of intensive and traditional practices. Science of the Total Environment 921, 171035.
• Reznikov, K., Efrat, R., Berger-Tal, O., Sapir, N., 2024. The spatiotemporal properties of artificial feeding schemes influence the post-fledging movement of Egyptian Vultures. Ornithological Applications.
• Rossberg AG, O'Sullivan JD, Malysheva S, Shnerb NM. 2024. A metric for tradable biodiversity credits quantifying impacts on global extinction risk. Journal of Industrial Ecology.
• Rossi, V., et al.  2024. Poor online information on European marine protected areas impairs public participation under the Aarhus Convention. Marine Policy 161, 106012.
• Rotem-Mindali O, Katzir N, Perez O. 2024. Identifying Regulatory Barriers in the Management of Ecological Corridors in an Increasingly Congested Space. Land 13:1552.
• Sabo AN, Berger-Tal O, Blumstein DT, Greggor AL, Swaddle JP. 2024. Conservation practitioners’ and researchers’ needs for bridging the knowledge–action gap. Frontiers in Conservation Science 5.
• Sánchez-Caballero, C.A., Borges-Souza, J.M., Saldierna-Martínez, R.J., Abelson, A., 2024. Assessing the Conservation Value of Artificial and Natural Reefs via Ichthyoplankton Spatio-Temporal Dynamics. Fishes 9, 166.
• Schwimer L, Malkinson D, Kolska Horwitz L. 2024. Petroglyphs as a paleobiogeographic guide for Arabian ostrich ecology and reintroduction. Journal of Arid Environments 224:105222.
• Shani L. 2024. Invasive species or legal alien? Confrontation and controversy in protecting sabras in Israel. American Anthropologist.
• Shani L. 2024. Make the desert bloom—imaginaries, infrastructure, and water-land entanglement in desert agriculture in Israel. Agriculture and Human Values.
• Shashar, N., Oren, A., Neri, R.e., Waizman, O., Chernihovsky, N., Tynyakov, J., 2024. Artificial Reef Deployment Reduces Diving Pressure from Natural Reefs—The Case of Introductory Dives in Eilat, Red Sea. Oceans 5, 71-80.
• Spanier, E., 2024. Marine protected areas – a review of their potential effects on lobster population size & structure and fisheries management. Fisheries Research 275, 107025.
• Stark, G., Galetti, M., 2024. Rewilding in cold blood: Restoring functionality in degraded ecosystems using herbivorous reptiles. Global Ecology and Conservation 50, e02834.
• Steiner HG, Aharon S, Ballesteros J, Gainett G, Gavish-Regev E, Sharma PP. 2024. Machine learning approaches to assess microendemicity and conservation risk in cave-dwelling arachnofauna. Conservation Genetics 25:1103-1110.
• Stavi, I., Eldad, S., Xu, C., Xu, Z., Gusarov, Y., Haiman, M., Argaman, E., 2024. Ancient agricultural terrace walls control floods and regulate the distribution of Asphodelus ramosus geophytes in the Israeli arid Negev. CATENA 234, 107588.
• Tal-maon, M., Broitman, D., Portman, M.E., Housh, M., 2024. Combining a hydrological model with ecological planning for optimal placement of water-sensitive solutions. Journal of Hydrology 628, 130457.
• Tichon, J., Freiman, E., Spiegel, O., Baruchi, E., Atar, A., Lapid, R., King, R., Bar-David, S., Saltz, D., 2025. Species behavioral characteristics lead to unique fragmentation threats: The Nubian ibex as a case study. The Journal of Wildlife Management 89, e22698.
• Vardi R, Soriano-Redondo A, Gutiérrez JS, Dylewski Ł, Jagiello Z, Mikula P, Berger-Tal O, Blumstein DT, Jarić I, Sbragaglia V. 2024. Leveraging social media and other online data to study animal behavior. PLםS Biology 22:e3002793.
• Wilkinson, C.E., Dheer, A., Zett, T., Torrents-Ticó, M., Yarnell, R.W., Bar Ziv, E., Bhandari, S., Jacobson, A., Dloniak, S.M., 2024. Review of the global research on Hyaenidae and implications for conservation and management. Mammal Review.
• Yadav, N., Rakholia, S., Yosef, R., 2024. Decision Support Systems in Forestry and Tree-Planting Practices and the Prioritization of Ecosystem Services: A Review. Land 13, 230.
• Zlotnick, O.B., Musselman, K.N., Levy, O., 2024. Deforestation poses deleterious effects to tree-climbing species under climate change. Nature Climate Change 14, 289-295.
• Zukerman, Y., Arnon, A., Roll, U., Berger-Tal, O., 2024. Avoiding visitors to a protected area increases predation risk for the endangered mountain gazelle. People and Nature.

2023

• Acácio, M., Anglister, N., Vaadia, G., Harel, R., Nathan, R., Hatzofe, O., Spiegel, O., 2023. A lifetime track of a griffon vulture: The moving story of Rehovot (Y64). Ecology, e3985.
• Allan, H., Levin, N., Kark, S., 2023. Quantifying and mapping the human footprint across Earth's coastal areas. Ocean & Coastal Management 236, 106476.
• Arzi, Y., Segoli, M., Schäckermann, J., Korine, C., 2023. Providing water sources to insectivorous bats for conservation biological control in arid date plantations. Biological Control 187, 105374.
• Baeckens, S., Meiri, S., Shine, R., 2023. Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways. Conservation Letters, e12977.
• Ben-Haim, Y., 2023. Managing uncertainty in decision-making for conservation science. Conservation Biology, e14164.
• Bluestein-Livnon R, Svoray T, Dorman M, Van Der Beek K. 2023. Economic aspects of urban greenness along a dryland rainfall gradient: A time-series analysis. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 83:127915.
• Caetano, G.H.O., Vardi, R., Jarić, I., Correia, R.A., Roll, U., Veríssimo, D., 2023. Evaluating global interest in biodiversity and conservation. Conservation Biology.
• Chang, G.J., 2023. Biodiversity estimation by environment drivers using machine/deep learning for ecological management. Ecological Informatics 78, 102319.
• Chapple, D.G., Slavenko, A., Tingley, R., Farquhar, J.E., Camaiti, M., Roll, U., Meiri, S., 2023. Built for success: Distribution, morphology, ecology and life history of the world's skinks. Ecology and Evolution 13, e10791.
• Chen, C., Holyoak, M., Xu, J., de Oliveira Caetano, G.H., Wang, Y., 2023. Range restriction, climate variability and human-related risks imperil lizards world-wide. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
• Chowdhury, S., Fuller, R.A., Ahmed, S., Alam, S., Callaghan, C.T., Das, P., Correia, R.A., Marco, M.D., Minin, E.D., Jarić, I., Labi, M.M., Ladle, R.J., Rokonuzzaman, M., Roll, U., Sbragaglia, V., Siddika, A., Bonn, A. 2023. Using social media records to inform conservation planning. Conservation Biology.
• Davies, T.W., Levy, O., Tidau, S., de Barros Marangoni, L.F., Wiedenmann, J., D’Angelo, C., Smyth, T., 2023. Global disruption of coral broadcast spawning associated with artificial light at night. Nature Communications 14, 2511.
• Dorfman, A., Subach, A., Scharf, I., 2023. Tracking spoor and field signs as a zoological research method. Animal Behaviour 203, 133-141.
• Dubos, N., Porcel, X., Roesch, M.A., Claudin, J., Pinel, R., Probst, J.-M., Deso, G., 2023. A bird's-eye view: Evaluating drone imagery for the detection and monitoring of endangered and invasive day geckos. Biotropica.
• Efrat, R., Hatzofe, O., Mueller, T., Sapir, N., Berger-Tal, O., 2023. Early and accumulated experience shape migration and flight in Egyptian vultures. Current Biology.
• Froidevaux, J.S.P., et al. 2023. A species-level trait dataset of bats in Europe and beyond. Scientific Data 10, 253.
• Furth, D.G., Montagna, M., Magoga, G., 2023. Rediscovery of a lost semi-aquatic Leaf Beetle in the Hula Valley, Israel (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae). ZooKeys 1177.
• Galili, O., Goffman, O., Roditi-Elasar, M., Mevorach, Y., Bigal, E., Zuriel, Y., Haitovich, Y., Hadar, N., Markovich, M., Vardimon, D., Reininger, D., Marco, S., Morick, D., Ratner, E., Tchernov, D., Scheinin, A., 2023. Two Decades of Coastal Dolphin Population Surveys in Israel, Eastern Mediterranean. Biology 12, 328.
• Ganem, Z., Ferrante, M., Lubin, Y., Armiach Steinpress, I., Gish, M., Sharon, R., Harari, A.R., Keasar, T., Gavish-Regev, E., 2023. Effects of Natural Habitat and Season on Cursorial Spider Assemblages in Mediterranean Vineyards. Insects 14, 782.
• Gavagnach, C., Ben-Ami, D., 2023. Management and Behavior of Livestock Guarding Dogs in a Multiuse Rural Landscape in Northern Israel. Rangeland Ecology & Management 88, 85-99.
• Gnone, G. ,et al, 2023. Cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea: Encounter Rate, Dominant Species, and Diversity Hotspots. Diversity 15, 321.
• Golumbic, Y.N., Oesterheld, M., 2023. From goals to engagement—evaluating citizen science project descriptions as science communication texts. Frontiers in Environmental Science 11.
• Grobman, Y.J., Weisser, W., Shwartz, A., Ludwig, F., Kozlovsky, R., Ferdman, A., Perini, K., Hauck, T.E., Selvan, S.U., Saroglou, S., Barath, S., Schloter, M., Windorfer, L., 2023. Architectural Multispecies Building Design: Concepts, Challenges, and Design Process. Sustainability 15, 15480.
• Groner, E., Babad, A., Berda Swiderski, N., Shachak, M., 2023. Toward an extreme world: The hyper-arid ecosystem as a natural model. Ecosphere 14, e4586.
• Guedes, P., Alves-Martins, F., Arribas, J.M., Chatterjee, S., Santos, A.M.C., Lewin, A., Bako, L., Webala, P.W., Correia, R.A., Rocha, R., Ladle, R.J., 2023. Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
• Hadad, E., Kosicki, J.Z., Yosef, R., 2023. Spatial modeling of road collisions of striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) in Israel. Ecological Research.
• Hahs, A.K., et al. 2023. Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide. Nature Communications 14, 4751.
• Haran, R., Troupin, D., Izhaki, I., 2023. Dead Sea level decline pushed a sensitive ecosystem out of equilibrium, causing the relocation of a colonial bird breeding site. Bird Study, 1-12.
• Harding, S., Tapson, M., Bar-Oz, G., Cvikel, D., Marom, N., 2023. Stowaways: Maritime ecology of the oldest commensal ship rats (Rattus rattus) found on a Mediterranean shipwreck. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 49, 103947.
• Jarić, I., Correia, R.A., Bonaiuto, M., Brook, B.W., Courchamp, F., Firth, J.A., Gaston, K.J., Heger, T., Jeschke, J.M., Ladle, R.J., Meinard, Y., Roberts, D.L., Sherren, K., Soga, M., Soriano-Redondo, A., Veríssimo, D., Roll, U., 2023. Transience of public attention in conservation science. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
• Jarić, I., Normande, I.C., Arbieu, U., Courchamp, F., Crowley, S.L., Jeschke, J.M., Roll, U., Sherren, K., Thomas-Walters, L., Veríssimo, D., Ladle, R.J., Flagship individuals in biodiversity conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
• Kaplan Mintz K, Arazy O, Malkinson D. 2023. Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science. Environmental Education Research 29:27-44.
• Ladle, R.J., Alves-Martins, F., Malhado, A.C.M., Reyes-García, V., Courchamp, F., Minin, E.D., Roll, U., Jaric, I., Correia, R.A., 2023. Biocultural aspects of species extinctions. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 1-21.
• Meiri, S., Chapple, D.G., Tolley, K.A., Mitchell, N., Laniado, T., Cox, N., Bowls, P., Young, B.E., Caetano, G., Geschke, J., Böhm, M., Roll, U., 2023. Done but not dusted: Reflections on the first global reptile assessment and priorities for the second. Biological Conservation 278, 109879.
• Nikolaou, A., Tsirintanis, K., Rilov, G., Katsanevakis, S., 2023. Invasive Fish and Sea Urchins Drive the Status of Canopy Forming Macroalgae in the Eastern Mediterranean. Biology 12, 763.
• Saltz, D., Cohen, S., 2023. Naturalness and principle pluralism in conservation. Conservation Biology, e14137.
• Selvan, S.U., Saroglou, S.T., Joschinski, J., Calbi, M., Vogler, V., Barath, S., Grobman, Y.J., 2023. Toward multi-species building envelopes: A critical literature review of multi-criteria decision-making for design support. Building and Environment 231, 110006.
• Shani L. 2023. Predatory Fleas, sterile Flies, and the Settlers: Agricultural Infrastructure and the Challenge of Alien-Native Dichotomies in Israel/Palestine. Cultural Anthropology 38:87–112-187–112.
• Silliman, B.R., Angelini, C., Krause, G., Saunders, M.I., Smith, C.S., Valdez, S.R., McLean, J.E.T., Paxton, A.B., Heide, T.v.d., Abelson, A., 2023. Editorial: Marine ecosystem restoration (MER) – a call for a more inclusive paradigm. Frontiers in Marine Science 10.
• Stark, G., Ma, L., Zeng, Z.-G., Du, W.-G., Levy, O., 2023. Cool shade and not-so-cool shade: How habitat loss may accelerate thermal stress under current and future climate. Global Change Biology.
• Stark, G., Schwarz, R., 2024. Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians. Biological Conservation 292, 110559.
• Tadmor-Levi, R., Feldstein-Farkash, T., Milstein, D., Golani, D., Leader, N., Goren, M., David, L., 2023. Revisiting the species list of freshwater fish in Israel based on DNA barcoding. Ecology and Evolution 13, e10812.
• Thompson, K.F., Gordon, J., Webber, T., Zuriel, Y., Kobo, K., Tchernov, D., Airoldi, S., Violi, B., Verga, A., Gannier, A., Fontanesi, E., Ascheri, D., Scheinin, A.P., 2024. Threatened cetaceans off the coast of Israel and long-range movement of a sperm whale. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 34, e4155.
• Tourinho, L., Sinervo, B., de Oliveira Caetano, G.H., Attias, N., Vale, M.M., 2023. Impacts of climate change on slow metabolism mammals: An ecophysiological perspective. Ecological Informatics 78, 102367.
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• Vardi, R., Dubiner, S., Ben Bezalel, R., Meiri, S., Levin, E., 2023. Do urban habitats induce physiological changes in Mediterranean lizards? Journal of Zoology.
• Werber, Y., Sextin, H., Yovel, Y., Sapir, N., 2023. BATScan: A radar classification tool reveals large-scale bat migration patterns. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
• Zemah-Shamir, S., Peled, Y., Shechter, M., Israel, Á., Ofir, E., Gal, G., 2023. Economic Valuation of Fish Provision, Wastewater Treatment, and Coastal Protection in the Israeli Mediterranean Sea. Fishes 8, 236.

2022

• Allegrini, C., Korine, C., Krasnov, B.R., 2022. Insectivorous Bats in Eastern Mediterranean Planted Pine Forests—Effects of Forest Structure on Foraging Activity, Diversity, and Implications for Management Practices. Forests 13, 1411.
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• Jarić, I., Bellard, C., Correia, R.A., Courchamp, F., Douda, K., Essl, F., Jeschke, J.M.,Kalinkat, K., Kalous, L., Lennox, R.J., Novoa, A., Proulx, R., Pyšek, P., Soriano-Redondo,A., Souza, A.T., Vardi, R., Veríssimo, D. and Roll, U. 2021. Invasion culturomics and iEcology. Conservation Biology
• Jung, M., et al. 2021. Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, 1499-1509.
• Justo-Hanani, R., Dayan, T., 2021. Risk regulation and precaution in Europe and the United States: the case of bioinvasion. Policy Sciences 54, 3-20.
• Kaplan Mintz K, Ayalon O, Nathan O, Eshet T. 2021. See or Be? Contact with nature and well-being during COVID-19 lockdown. Journal of Environmental Psychology 78:101714.
• Kline, D.I., Dehgan, A., Bunje, P., Selbe, S., Chirayath, V., Pizarro, O., Leray, M., Connolly, S., Bongaerts, P., Treibitz, T., Levy, O., Kriegman, D., Andersson, A., McField, M., Duffy, J.E., 2021. The Coral Reef Sentinels Program: A Mars Shot for Blue Planetary Health. Marine Technology Society Journal 55, 118-119.
• Lambertucci, S.A., Margalida, A., Speziale, K.L., Amar, A., Ballejo, F., Bildstein, K.L., Blanco, G., Botha, A.J., Bowden, C.G.R., Cortés-Avizanda, A., Duriez, O., Green, R.E., Hiraldo, F., Ogada, D., Plaza, P., Sánchez-Zapata, J.A., Santangeli, A., Selva, N., Spiegel, O., Donázar, J.A., 2021. Presumed killers? Vultures, stakeholders, misperceptions, and fake news. Conservation Science and Practice, e415.
• Landau, S.Y., Isler, I., Dvash, L., Shalmon, B., Arnon, A., Saltz, D., 2021. Estimating the Suitability for the Reintroduced Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx, Pallas 1777) of Two Desert Environments by NIRS-Aided Fecal Chemistry. Remote Sensing 13, 1876.
• Lazagabaster, I.A., Ullman, M., Porat, R., Halevi, R., Porat, N., Davidovich, U., Marom, N., 2021. Changes in the large carnivore community structure of the Judean Desert in connection to Holocene human settlement dynamics. Scientific Reports 11, 3548.
• Levin, D., Raab, N., Pinto, Y., Rothschild, D., Zanir, G., Godneva, A., Mellul, N., Futorian, D., Gal, D., Leviatan, S., Zeevi, D., Bachelet, I., Segal, E., 2021. Diversity and functional landscapes in the microbiota of animals in the wild. Science 372, eabb5352.
• Lewin, A., Erinjery, J.J., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Tripler, E., Iwamura, T., 2021. Land-use differences modify predator-prey interactions and Acacia vegetation in a hyperarid ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 192, 104547.
• Liu, H., Xu, C., Allen, C.D., Hartmann, H., Wei, X., Yakir, D., Wu, X., Yu, P. 2021. Nature-based framework for sustainable afforestation in global drylands under changing climate. Global Change Biology
• Manela, N., Ovadia, O., Shemesh, H., 2021. The ability of short-term responses to predict the long-term consequences of conservation management actions: The case of the endangered Paeonia mascula (L.) Mill. Journal for Nature Conservation 60, 125956.
• Maor-Cohen, M., Bar-David, S., Dolev, A., Berger-Tal, O., Saltz, D., Spiegel, O., 2021. Settling in: Reintroduced Persian Fallow Deer Adjust the Borders and Habitats of Their Home-Range During the First 5 Years Post Release. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2.
• Marselle, M.R., Turbe, A., Shwartz, A., Bonn, A., Colléony, A., 2021. Addressing behavior in pollinator conservation policies to combat the implementation gap. Conservation Biology 35, 610-622.
• Martín, G., Yáñez-Arenas, C., Rangel-Camacho, R., Murray, K.A., Goldstein, E., Iwamura, T., Chiappa-Carrara, X., 2021. Implications of global environmental change for the burden of snakebite. Toxicon: X 9-10, 100069.
• A. Maureaud, et al. 2021. Are we ready to track climate-driven shifts in marine species across international boundaries? - A global survey of scientific bottom trawl data. Global Change Biology 27, 220-236.
• Mittermeier J.C., Correa R., Toivonen T., Grenyer R, & Roll R. 2021. Using Wikipedia to measure public interest in biodiversity and conservation. Conservation Biology.
• Mittermeier, J.C., Roll, U., Matthews, T.J., Correia, R., Grenyer, R. 2021, Birds that are more commonly encountered in the wild attract higher public interest online. Conservation Science and Practice, e340.
• Mor-Mussery, A., Cohen, S., Leu, S., 2021. Interrelation between harvester ant activity, soil fertility, and land management in the arid lands of the Negev Desert, Israel. CATENA 207, 105700.
• Mostovoy, N., Carasso Romano, G.H., Rabinowitz, D., Soroker, S., Carmi, N., 2021. The municipal council, my neighbors and me: Social environmental influences in the city. Journal of Environmental Management 288, 112393.
• Murali, G., Gumbs, R., Meiri, S., Roll, U., 2021. Global determinants and conservation of evolutionary and geographic rarity in land vertebrates. Science Advances 7, eabe5582.
• Muratet, A., Muratet, M., Pellaton, M., Brun, M., Baude, M., Shwartz, A., Fontaine, C., 2021. Wasteland, a Refuge for Biodiversity, for Humanity, In Urban Wastelands: A Form of Urban Nature? eds F. Di Pietro, A. Robert, pp. 87-112. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
• Noy, K., Ohana-Levi, N., Panov, N., Silver, M., Karnieli, A., 2021. A long-term spatiotemporal analysis of biocrusts across a diverse arid environment: The case of the Israeli-Egyptian sandfield. Science of the Total Environment 774, 145154.
• Ohayon, S., Granot, I., Belmaker, J., 2021. A meta-analysis reveals edge effects within marine protected areas. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
• Paz-Kagan, T., Chang, J.G., Shoshany, M., Sternberg, M., Karnieli, A., 2021. Assessment of plant species distribution and diversity along a climatic gradient from Mediterranean woodlands to semi-arid shrublands. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 1-25.
• Pincheira-Donoso, D., Harvey, L.P., Cotter, S.C., Stark, G., Meiri, S., Hodgson, D.J., 2021. The global macroecology of brood size in amphibians reveals a predisposition of low-fecundity species to extinction. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30, 1299-1310.
• Polinov, S., Bookman, R., Levin, N., 2021. Spatial and temporal assessment of oil spills in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 167, 112338.
• Raatikainen, K.J., Purhonen, J., Pohjanmies, T., Peura, M., Nieminen, E., Mustajärvi, L., Helle, I., Shennan-Farpón, Y., Ahti, P.A., Basile, M., Bernardo, N., Bertram, M.G., Bouarakia, O., Brias-Guinart, A., Fijen, T., Froidevaux, J.S.P., Hemmingmoore, H., Hocevar, S., Kendall, L., Lampinen, J., Marjakangas, E.-L., Martin, J.M., Oomen, R.A., Segre, H., Sidemo-Holm, W., Silva, A.P., Thorbjørnsen, S.H., Torrents-Ticó, M., Zhang, D., Ziemacki, J. 2021. Pathways towards a sustainable future envisioned by early-career conservation researchers. Conservation Science and Practice, e493.
• Ribeiro-Júnior, M.A., Sánchez-Martínez, P.M., Moraes, L.J.C.d.L., Oliveira, U.S.C.d., Carvalho, V.T.d., Pavan, D., Choueri, E.H.d.L., Werneck, F.P., Meiri, S. 2021. Uncovering hidden species diversity of alopoglossid lizards in Amazonia, with the description of three new species of Alopoglossus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.
• Richter, A., Comay, O., Svenningsen, C.S., Larsen, J.C., Hecker, S., Tøttrup, A.P., Pe'er, G., Dunn, R.R., Bonn, A., Marselle, M., 2021. Motivation and support services in citizen science insect monitoring: A cross-country study. Biological Conservation 263, 109325.
• Rohatyn, S., Rotenberg, E., Yakir, D., Carmel, Y., 2021. Assessing climatic benefits from forestation potential in semi-arid lands. Environmental Research Letters 16, 104039.
• Roll, U., Jarić, I., Jepson, P., da Costa-Pinto, A.L., Pinheiro, B.R., Correia, R.A., Malhado, A.C., Ladle, R.J., 2021. COVID-19 lockdowns increase public interest in urban nature. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19, 320-322.
• Saccò, M., White, N.E., Harrod, C., Salazar, G., Aguilar, P., Cubillos, C.F., Meredith, K., Baxter, B.K., Oren, A., Anufriieva, E., Shadrin, N., Marambio-Alfaro, Y., Bravo-Naranjo, V., Allentoft, M.E. 2021. Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems. Biological Reviews
• Saltz, D., Getz, W.M., 2021. Finding a Home: Stopping Theory and Its Application to Home Range Establishment in a Novel Environment. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2.
• Sanches, V.Q.A., Menezes, J.F.S., Prevedello, J.A., Almeida-Gomes, M., Oliveira-Santos, L.G.R. 2021. Can matrix structure affect animal navigation between fragments? A dispersal experiment using release platforms. Biotropica
• Senapathi, D., et al. 2021. Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288, 20210212.
• Senior, A.F., Böhm, M., Johnstone, C.P., McGee, M.D., Meiri, S., Chapple, D.G., Tingley, R., 2021. Correlates of extinction risk in Australian squamate reptiles. Journal of Biogeography 48, 2144-2152.
• Shapiro, J.T., Víquez-R, L., Leopardi, S., Vicente-Santos, A., Mendenhall, I.H., Frick, W.F., Kading, R.C., Medellín, R.A., Racey, P., Kingston, T., 2021. Setting the Terms for Zoonotic Diseases: Effective Communication for Research, Conservation, and Public Policy. Viruses 13, 1356.
• Shapiro Goldberg, D., Rilov, G., Villéger, S., Belmaker, J., 2021. Predation Cues Lead to Reduced Foraging of Invasive Siganus rivulatus in the Mediterranean. Frontiers in Marine Science 8.
• Sinclair, M., Vishnu Sagar, M.K., Knudsen, C., Sabu, J., Ghermandi, A., 2021. Economic appraisal of ecosystem services and restoration scenarios in a tropical coastal Ramsar wetland in India. Ecosystem Services 47, 101236.
• Stavi, I., Yizhaq, H., Szitenberg, A., Zaady, E., 2021. Patch-scale to hillslope-scale geodiversity alleviates susceptibility of dryland ecosystems to climate change: insights from the Israeli Negev. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 50, 129-137.
• Steger, J., Bošnjak, M., Belmaker, J., Galil, B.S., Zuschin, M., Albano, P.G., 2022. Non-indigenous molluscs in the Eastern Mediterranean have distinct traits and cannot replace historic ecosystem functioning. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31, 89-102.
• Teff-Seker, Y., Segre, H., Eizenberg, E., Orenstein, D.E., Shwartz, A., 2022. Factors influencing farmer and resident willingness to adopt an agri-environmental scheme in Israel. Journal of Environmental Management 302, 114066.
• Teschner, N., Orenstein, D.E., 2021. A transdisciplinary study of agroecological niches: understanding sustainability transitions in vineyards. Agriculture and Human Values.
• Vardi R., Mittermeier J. & Roll U. 2021. Combining culturomic sources to uncover trends in popularity and seasonal interest in plants. Conservation Biology
• Vardi, R., Berger-Tal, O., Roll, U., 2021. iNaturalist insights illuminate COVID-19 effects on large mammals in urban centers. Biological Conservation, 254, 108953.
• Volis, S., Blecher, M., 2021. Present and future of Iris atrofusca populations in the Negev Desert analyzed by population viability analysis and species distribution modeling. Acta Oecologica 111, 103718.
• Wahle, A., Rödder, D., Chapple, D.G., Meiri, S., Rauhaus, A., Ziegler, T., 2021. Skinks in Zoos: A global approach on distribution patterns of threatened Scincidae in zoological institutions. Global Ecology and Conservation 30, e01800.
• Yom-Tov, Y., Balaban, A., Hadad, E., Weil, G., Roll, U., 2021. The plight of the Endangered mountain gazelle Gazella gazella. Oryx, 1-8.
• Yu, H., Deng, J., Nathan, R., Kröschel, M., Pekarsky, S., Li, G., Klaassen, M., 2021. An evaluation of machine learning classifiers for next-generation, continuous-ethogram smart trackers. Movement Ecology 9, 15.
• Zecherle, L.J., Nichols, H.J., Bar-David, S., Brown, R.P., Hipperson, H., Horsburgh, G.J., Templeton, A.R. 2021. Subspecies hybridization as a potential conservation tool in species reintroductions. Evolutionary Applications
• Zukerman, Y., Sigal, Z., Berger-Tal, O., 2021. COVID-19 Restrictions in a Nature Reserve Reveal the Costs of Human Presence for the Threatened Nubian Ibex (Capra nubiana). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9.

 
2020

• Dromi SM, Shani L. 2020. Love of Land: Nature Protection, Nationalism, and the Struggle over the Establishment of New Communities in Israel. Rural Sociology 85:111-136.
• Wada, N., Yuasa, H., Kajitani, R., Gotoh, Y., Ogura, Y., Yoshimura, D., Toyoda, A., Tang, S.-L., Higashimura, Y., Sweatman, H., Forsman, Z., Bronstein, O., Eyal, G., Thongtham, N., Itoh, T., Hayashi, T., Yasuda, N., 2020. A ubiquitous subcuticular bacterial symbiont of a coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish, in the Indo-Pacific. Microbiome 8, 123.

 
2019

• Berger-Tal, O., Saltz, D., 2019. Invisible barriers: anthropogenic impacts on inter-and intra-specific interactions as drivers of landscape-independent fragmentation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374, 20180049.
• Meiri, S., 2019. What geckos are – an ecological-biogeographic perspective. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 66, 253-263.

 
2018

• Lotan, A., Kost, R., Mandelik, Y., Peled, Y., Chakuki , D., Zemah Shamir, S., Ram, Y., 2018. National scale mapping of ecosystem services in Israel – genetic resources, pollination and cultural services. One Ecosystem 3.
• Shani L. 2018. Of Trees and People: The Changing Entanglement in the Israeli Desert. Ethnos 83:624-644.
• Shani L. 2018. Liquid Distinctions: Negotiating Boundaries Between Agriculture and the Environment in the Israeli Desert. Anthropological Quarterly 91:1075-1104.
• Toger, M., Benenson, I., Wang, Y., Czamanski, D., Malkinson, D., 2018. Pigs in space: an agent-based model of wild boar (Sus scrofa) movement into cities. Landscape and Urban Planning 173, 70-80.

2017

• Gutkowski N, Grosglik R, Shani L. 2017. Towards a Social-Environmental Paradigm in Israel. Israeli Sociology 18:6-28. (in Hebrew)