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Marcelo Sternberg

Marcelo Sternberg

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
9091
World Ranking
6003
National Ranking
32

Overview

Marcelo Sternberg is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has established a research profile mainly in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work predominantly addresses areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, and Ecology, with additional focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research topics include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Sternberg has published in several distinguished scientific venues, with recurring contributions in:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Agronomy
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Global Change Biology

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Rainfall manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: Where do we stand?, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Assessment of plant species distribution and diversity along a climatic gradient from Mediterranean woodlands to semi-arid shrublands, 2021, GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • Divergent responses of plant biomass and its allocation to the altered precipitation regimes among different degraded grasslands in China, 2021, Plant and Soil
  • Temporal stability of biomass in annual plant communities is driven by species diversity and asynchrony, but not dominance, 2021, Journal of Vegetation Science

Frequent co-authors in Sternberg's publications include:

  • Tarin Paz-Kagan
  • Rentao Liu
  • Jaime Kigel
  • Xuechen Yang
  • Wei Sun

Best Publications

  • Plant trait responses to grazing – a global synthesis

    Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel;Sue McINTYRE;Valeria Falczuk

  • Assessing the effects of land-use change on plant traits, communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: a standardized methodology and lessons from an application to 11 European sites.

    Eric Garnier;Sandra Lavorel;Pauline Ansquer;Helena Castro

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

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

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

  • Leaf traits capture the effects of land use changes and climate on litter decomposability of grasslands across Europe

    Claire Fortunel;Eric Garnier;Richard Joffre;Elena Kazakou

  • Coordinated distributed experiments: An emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Hugh Al Henry;Cameron N. Carlyle;Cameron N. Carlyle;Shannon R. White

  • Influence of slope aspect on Mediterranean woody formations: Comparison of a semiarid and an arid site in Israel

    Marcelo Sternberg;Maxim Shoshany

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Annual plant–shrub interactions along an aridity gradient

    Claus Holzapfel;Katja Tielbörger;Hadas A. Parag;Jaime Kigel

  • The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming.

    Ainit Snir;Dani Nadel;Iris Groman-Yaroslavski;Yoel Melamed

  • Quantifying drylands' drought resistance and recovery: the importance of drought intensity, dominant life history and grazing regime

    Jan C. Ruppert;Keith Harmoney;Zalmen Henkin;Hennie A. Snyman

  • Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: a long-term study from semi-arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities

    Johannes Metz;Pierre Liancourt;Pierre Liancourt;Jaime Kigel;Danny Harel

  • Middle-Eastern plant communities tolerate 9 years of drought in a multi-site climate manipulation experiment

    Katja Tielbörger;Mark C. Bilton;Johannes Metz;Jaime Kigel

  • Life history variation in an annual plant under two opposing environmental constraints along an aridity gradient

    Martina Petrů;Katja Tielbörger;Ruthie Belkin;Marcelo Sternberg

  • Effects of grazing on soil seed bank dynamics: An approach with functional groups

    Marcelo Sternberg;Mario Gutman;Avi Perevolotsky;Jaime Kigel

  • Plant community dynamics in a calcareous grassland under climate change manipulations

    Marcelo Sternberg;Valerie K. Brown;Gregory J. Masters;Ian P. Clarke

  • Impact of rainfall manipulations and biotic controls on soil respiration in Mediterranean and desert ecosystems along an aridity gradient

    Yiftach Talmon;Marcelo Sternberg;José M. Grünzweig

  • Forest fire effects on soil chemical and physicochemical properties, infiltration, runoff, and erosion in a semiarid Mediterranean region

    Assaf Inbar;Marcos Lado;Marcelo Sternberg;Haim Tenau

  • Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

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  • Few multiyear precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship.

    Marc Estiarte;Sara Vicca;Josep Peñuelas;Michael Bahn

  • Recovery of plant species composition and ecosystem function after cessation of grazing in a Mediterranean grassland

    Carly Golodets;Jaime Kigel;Marcelo Sternberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaime Kigel
Jaime Kigel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Anke Jentsch
Anke Jentsch University of Bayreuth
Avi Perevolotsky
Avi Perevolotsky Agricultural Research Organization
Eugene D. Ungar
Eugene D. Ungar Agricultural Research Organization
Lauchlan H. Fraser
Lauchlan H. Fraser Thompson Rivers University
Katja Tielbörger
Katja Tielbörger University of Tübingen
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba
Carl Beierkuhnlein
Carl Beierkuhnlein University of Bayreuth
James F. Cahill
James F. Cahill University of Alberta
Marcelo Cabido
Marcelo Cabido National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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