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Eugene D. Ungar is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Organization in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable contributions in several subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, small animals, developmental biology, and aspects of management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their work addresses a variety of topics with a strong emphasis on wildlife ecology and conservation, fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, animal behavior and welfare studies, animal vocal communication and behavior, rangeland management and livestock ecology, and genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock.

Key publications by Eugene D. Ungar include:

  • What Is Grazing Time? Insights from the Acoustic Signature of Goat Jaw Activity in Wooded Landscapes, 2024, published in Sensors
  • Rhythms, Patterns and Styles in the Jaw Movement Activity of Beef Cattle on Rangeland as Revealed by Acoustic Monitoring, 2025, published in Sensors

Additionally, their coauthors frequently include:

  • Reuven Horn
  • Tarin Paz-Kagan
  • Vladimir Alexandroff
  • Ynon Nevo
  • Mor Ashkenazi

Their research has been published mainly in venues such as Sensors and The Science of The Total Environment, with the latter featuring the paper Detection of Goat Herding Impact on Vegetation Cover Change Using Multi-Season, Multi-Herd Tracking and Satellite Imagery (2023).

Best Publications

  • Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Fernando T. Maestre;Antonio Gallardo;Matthew A. Bowker

  • Vegetation response to grazing management in a Mediterranean herbaceous community: a functional group approach

    Marcelo Sternberg;Mario Gutman;Avi Perevolotsky;Eugene D. Ungar

  • Effects of sward height and bulk density on bite dimensions of cattle grazing homogeneous swards

    E. A. Laca;E. D. Ungar;N. Seligman;M. W. Demment

  • Biogeography of soil archaea and bacteria along a steep precipitation gradient

    Roey Angel;M Ines M Soares;Eugene D Ungar;Osnat Gillor

  • Inference of Animal Activity From GPS Collar Data on Free-Ranging Cattle

    Eugene D. Ungar;Zalmen Henkin;Mario Gutman;Amit Dolev

  • Soil Microbial Abundance and Diversity Along a Low Precipitation Gradient

    Ami Bachar;Ashraf Al-Ashhab;M. Ines M. Soares;Menachem Y. Sklarz

  • Mechanisms of handling time and intake rate of a large mammalian grazer

    E.A. Laca;E.D. Ungar;M.W. Demment

  • HERBAGE INTAKE IN RELATION TO AVAILABILITY AND SWARD STRUCTURE: GRAZING PROCESSES AND OPTIMAL FORAGING

    E. D. Ungar;I. Noy-Meir

  • Energy cost of cows' grazing activity: Use of the heart rate method and the Global Positioning System for direct field estimation.

    A. Brosh;Z. Henkin;E. D. Ungar;A. Dolev

  • Grazing-induced spatial variability of soil bulk density and content of moisture, organic carbon and calcium carbonate in a semi-arid rangeland

    Ilan Stavi;Eugene David Ungar;Hanoch Lavee;Pariente Sarah

  • Transpiration and annual water balance of Aleppo pine in a semiarid region: Implications for forest management

    Eugene David Ungar;Eyal Rotenberg;Naama Raz-Yaseef;Shabtai Cohen

  • Woody Species as Landscape Modulators and Their Effect on Biodiversity Patterns

    Moshe Shachak;Bertrand Boeken;Elli Groner;Ronen Kadmon

  • Classifying cattle jaw movements: Comparing IGER Behaviour Recorder and acoustic techniques

    Eugene David Ungar;Steven Mark Rutter

  • An integrated methodology for studying short-term grazing behaviour of cattle.

    E. A. Laca;E. D. Ungar;N. G. Seligman;M. R. Ramey

  • Ruminant self-medication against gastrointestinal nematodes: evidence, mechanism, and origins

    Juan J. Villalba;James Miller;Eugene D. Ungar;Serge Y. Landau

  • Bite Dimensions and Herbage Intake by Cattle Grazing Short Hand-Constructed Swards

    E. D. Ungar;A. Genizi;M. W. Demment

  • Automatic recognition of jaw movements in free-ranging cattle, goats and sheep, using acoustic monitoring ☆

    Shilo Navon;Amos Mizrach;Amots Hetzroni;Eugene David Ungar

  • From desert to Mediterranean rangelands: will increasing drought and inter-annual rainfall variability affect herbaceous annual primary productivity?

    Carly Golodets;Marcelo Sternberg;Jaime Kigel;Bertrand Boeken

  • Diet selection in dairy goats grazing woody Mediterranean rangeland

    A Perevolotsky;S Landau;D Kababia;E.D Ungar

  • Ecogeomorphic feedbacks in semiarid rangelands: a review.

    I. Stavi;H. Lavee;E.D. Ungar;P. Sarah

  • Effects of cattle grazing on herbage quality in a herbaceous Mediterranean rangeland

    Z. Henkin;E. D. Ungar;L. Dvash;A. Perevolotsky

  • Energy cost of activities and locomotion of grazing cows: a repeated study in larger plots.

    A. Brosh;Z. Henkin;E. D. Ungar;A. Dolev

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Yan Landau
Serge Yan Landau Agricultural Research Organization
Avi Perevolotsky
Avi Perevolotsky Agricultural Research Organization
Marcelo Sternberg
Marcelo Sternberg Tel Aviv University
Jaime Kigel
Jaime Kigel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Arieh Brosh
Arieh Brosh Agricultural Research Organization
Moshe Shachak
Moshe Shachak Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Montague W. Demment
Montague W. Demment University of California, Davis
Eli Zaady
Eli Zaady Agricultural Research Organization
John W. Walker
John W. Walker Texas A&M University
Shabtai Cohen
Shabtai Cohen Agricultural Research Organization

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