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Plant Community Group

The joy of complex interactions

Other projects

One of the fun parts of science is that we can share our interests and test whether similar rules and methods are relevant for other groups of organisms. Especially, with the usage of bio-statistics, many bridges between groups and case studies can be easily built, and I get to see also how different organism function within their environment.

The Kadas green Roof Center –

Haifa University

Schindler B.Y., L. Blaustein, Lotan, R., Shalom, H., Kadas G.J., M. Seifan . (2018) Green roof and photovoltaic panel integration: effects on Plant and arthropod diversity and electricity production. Journal of Environmental Management 225: 288-299.

Salman I.N.A., B. Schindler, H. Agra, O. Bawab, A. Friedman-Heinman, G.J. Kadas. M. Seifan, L. Blaustein. (2018). Green roof research towards enhancing urban biodiversity, storm-water retention and air pollution abatement. CAB Reviews 13 (039): 1-14.

.Schindler B.Y., L. Blaustein, A. Vasl, G.J. Kadas, M. Seifan . (2019). Cooling effect of Sedum sediforme and annual plants on green roofs in Mediterranean climate. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 38: 392-396.

Schindler B.Y., L. Blaustein, Vasl A., Gurevich D., Kadas G.J., M. Seifan. (2019). Fine-scale substrate heterogeneity does not affect arthropod communities on green roofs. PeerJ 7: e6445F doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6445.

Understanding vegetation dynamics using nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation

Tzuk, O. S. R. Ujjwal, C. Fernandez-Oto, M. Seifan, E. Meron . (2019). Vegetation oscillations: the interplay between exogenous and endogenous factors. Scientific Reports 9:354

Tzuk, O. S. R. Ujjwal, C. Fernandez-Oto, M. Seifan, E. Meron. (2019). Interplay between exogenous and endogenous factors in seasonal vegetation oscillations. Scientific Reports 9:354 DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-36898-9

Other interesting organisms

(selected papers)

Köhler H.R, Schultz C, Scheil A.E, Triebskorn R, Seifan M., Di Lellis M.A. (2013). Historic data analysis reveals ambient temperature as a source of phenotypic variation in populations of the land snail Theba pisana. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 109: 241-256.

Seifan, M., Zohar, Y., Y. Werner. (2016). Reptile distribution may identify terrestrial islands for conservation: the Levant’s ‘Arava Valley as a model. Journal of Natural History 50:2783-2801.

Mammola S., S. Aharon, M. Seifan, Y. Lubin, E. Gavish-Regev. (2019). Local and regional drivers of the distribution of Artema spiders based on surface and subterranean data. Diversity 11(8), 119.

Mohiley, A., K. Tielbörger, M. Seifan, M. Gruntman. (2020). The role of biotic interactions in determining metal hyperaccumulation in plants. Functional Ecology 34:658-668

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