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Plant community ecology

The joy of complex interactions

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How can plant help each other in nature?

Under which conditions do negative interactions become positive?

How can animals affect plant performance and plant community structure?

And how plant community structure affects their response to animals?

Can plant dictate their spatial organization?

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Merav Seifan

My main research focus is the ecological mechanisms which govern plant-plant interactions, and thus shape community species composition and spatial structures.  In particular, I am interested in two factors that may shape plant communities:

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  1. The role plant-plant interactions and the external and internal factors that cause shifts in their nature from negative to positive.

  2. The changing role of  animal activity along environmental gradients

Research

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Plant-pollinator interactions as a driver of plant performance at various scales

Coping with harsh habitats and with hostile neighbors – plant interactions, functional traits and spatial structure in the service of hyperarid plant communities

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Why are invasive species invasive?

The secret world of Ants – plant dispersal by ant

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Let’s talk about how important things are

Other projects

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Israel Climate Change conference 2022

Haaretz, a Israeli newspaper and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem organized a Climate conference as a local follow-up to the Glazgo Conference in 2021. I had the honor to participate in the panel discussing the biological diversity crisis (in Hebrew).

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GrENE

Genomics of rapid evolution in novel environment

My lab is happy to represent the most southern location on Earth (currently) that take part in the long-term project to study the evolution of Arabidopsis thaliana at a global scale.

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University of Tübingen

As a long-term member of the plant ecology group in the University of Tübingen, Germany, I am happy to serve as an ambassador for the university.

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Click here to have a look at our mission

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Click here to check the interesting activity in the university

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Click here for the plant ecology department

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This website was designed by Yael Avidan

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