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Overview

Moshe Shachak is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, contributing to multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to ecology and ecosystem dynamics. Key areas of interest include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on arid and semi-arid ecosystems, water-limited environments, and ecological functional diversity. Notable papers include:

  • "The relationship between species diversity and functional diversity along aridity gradients in semi-arid rangeland," 2021, Journal of Arid Environments
  • "High-integrity human intervention in ecosystems: Tracking self-organization modes," 2021, PLoS Computational Biology
  • "Toward an extreme world: The hyper-arid ecosystem as a natural model," 2023, Ecosphere
  • "Functional reorganization and productivity of a water-limited annual plant community," 2020, Plant Ecology
  • "Functional Restoration of Desertified, Water-Limited Ecosystems: The Israel Desert Experience," 2023, Land

Moshe Shachak frequently collaborates with several coauthors, among whom are:

  • E. Meroni
  • Shayli Dor-Haim
  • Yagil Osem
  • Yuval R. Zelnik
  • Yair Mau

Their research has been published in diverse venues, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement, including:

  • ARPHA Conference Abstracts
  • Journal of Arid Environments
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Ecosphere
  • Land

Best Publications

  • Organisms as ecosystem engineers

    Clive G. Jones;John H. Lawton;Moshe Shachak

  • POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ORGANISMS AS PHYSICAL ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS

    Clive G. Jones;John H. Lawton;Moshe Shachak

  • Diversity of Vegetation Patterns and Desertification

    J. von Hardenberg;E. Meron;M. Shachak;Y. Zarmi

  • Ecosystem Engineers: From Pattern Formation to Habitat Creation

    E. Gilad;J. von Hardenberg;A. Provenzale;M. Shachak

  • Infiltration through three contrasting biological soil crusts in patterned landscapes in the Negev, Israel

    D.J Eldridge;Eli Zaady;Moshe Shachak

  • Vegetation patterns along a rainfall gradient

    Ehud Meron;Erez Gilad;Jost von Hardenberg;Moshe Shachak

  • A mathematical model of plants as ecosystem engineers.

    E. Gilad;J. von Hardenberg;A. Provenzale;M. Shachak

  • The Ecological Basis of Conservation : Heterogeneity, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity

    S. T. A. Pickett;R. S. Ostfeld;G. E. Likens;M. Shachak

  • Ecosystem Management of Desertified Shrublands in Israel

    Moshe Shachak;Menachem Sachs;Itshak Moshe

  • Desert Plant Communities in Human-Made Patches--Implications for Management

    Bertrand Boeken;Moshe Shachak

  • Nitrogen fixation in macro- and microphytic patches in the Negev desert

    Eli Zaady;Peter Groffman;Moshe Shachak;Moshe Shachak

  • Litter as a regulator of N and C dynamics in macrophytic patches in Negev desert soils

    Eli Zaady;Peter M. Groffman;Moshe Shachak

  • Integration of ecosystem engineering and trophic effects of herbivores

    Andrew Wilby;Moshe Shachak;Bertrand Boeken

  • Predictability of ecosystem engineering effects on species richness across environmental variability and spatial scales

    Justin P. Wright;Clive G. Jones;Bertrand Boeken;Moshe Shachak

  • The effect of microphytes on the spectral reflectance of vegetation in semiarid regions

    Arnon Karnieli;Moshe Shachak;Haim Tsoar;Eli Zaady

  • Vegetation patterns related to environmental factors in a Negev Desert watershed

    L. Olsvig-Whittaker;M. Shachak;A. Yair

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

    Moshe Shachak;Bertrand Boeken;Elli Groner;Ronen Kadmon

  • Emerged or imposed: a theory on the role of physical templates and self‐organisation for vegetation patchiness

    Efrat Sheffer;Jost von Hardenberg;Hezi Yizhaq;Moshe Shachak

  • Harvester ant response to spatial and temporal heterogeneity in seed availability: pattern in the process of granivory.

    Andrew Wilby;Moshe Shachak;Moshe Shachak

  • Herbivory in rocks and the weathering of a desert.

    Moshe Shachak;Clive G. Jones;Yigal Granot

  • The Ecological Basis of Conservation

    F. B. Goldsmith;S. T. A. Pickett;R. S. Ostfeld;M. Shachak

  • The Ecological Basis of Conservation: Heterogeneity, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity

    Diane M. Debinski;S. T. A. Pickett;R. S. Ostfeld;M. Shachak

Frequent Co-Authors

Eli Zaady
Eli Zaady Agricultural Research Organization
Arnon Karnieli
Arnon Karnieli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Eugene D. Ungar
Eugene D. Ungar Agricultural Research Organization
Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Steward T. A. Pickett
Steward T. A. Pickett Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Clive G. Jones
Clive G. Jones Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Avi Perevolotsky
Avi Perevolotsky Agricultural Research Organization
Richard S. Ostfeld
Richard S. Ostfeld Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Gene E. Likens
Gene E. Likens University of Connecticut
Yosef Steinberger
Yosef Steinberger Bar-Ilan University

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