Dr. Niv DeMalach

Principle Investigator

Or Gross

Lab Manager & Ph.D. student (co-mentored with Dror Minz)

Or studies the dynamics of plant and rhizosphere communities in our mesocosm experiment 

Dr. Santanu Das

Postdoc (co-mentored with Nadav Shnerb)

Santanu is developing a theory aiming to understand when ecosystem response to change is abrupt (tipping point dynamics) and when is it gradual.

Barel Tsafon 

Ph.D. student

Barel studies the effects of climate change on flowering phenology using mesocosm experiments and global-scale analysis.

Yuval Neumann

Ph.D. student  (co-mentored with Michael Kalyuzhny)

Yuval aims to understand the effects of disturbance on community dynamics by building population dynamics models for all species in our mesocosm experiment.

Atay Mor

Ph.D. student 

Atay's project is about the global patterns of species diversity and functional diversity

Oded Hollander

MSc. student (co-mentored with Yair Mau)

Oded is using a consumer-resource modelling approach to understand transition from facilitation to competition along a rainfall gradients (the stress gradient hypothesis)

Alumni

Daniel Idan

MSc. Student (co-mentored with Hila Segre)

Daniel quantifies the effects of low density afforestation (open-woodland) on the biodiversity of plants and birds.

Noel Kokwon

MSc. student (primarily mentored by Hila Segre)

Noel examines the effects of irrigation (climate-change mitigation) on pollinator communities 

Maayan Raz

MSc. student (also mentored by Hila Segre)

Maayan's experiment  investigates the effects of irrigation (climate change mitigation) on phenology and community structure in a mesocosm experiment

Osnat Steimatzky (2024)

MSc. student  (co-mentored with Alon Shepon)

Osnats's research  investigate whether it is possible to increase crop diversity while maintaining nutritional demands using data from the US

Tal Schabes (2023)

MSc. student

Tal have established our largest mesocosm experiment to investigate the effects of disturbance on plant communities  

Dr. Tyler Poppenwimer (2023)

Postdoc (co-mentored with Itay Mayrose)

Tyler has investigated the global distribution of annual and perennial plants and its drivers

David Sampson Issaka (2022)

MSc. student student

David's experiments aimed to disentangle direct and indirect drivers of species loss following N enrichment.

Itunuoluwa Ayilara (2022)

MSc. student student

Itunuoluwa  experiments compared the effects of competition vs. plant-soil feedback under nutrient enrichment.

Nir Band (2021)

MSc. student (co-mentored with Ronen Kadmon)

Nir have conducted a global meta analysis to compare different hypotheses regrading the drivers of species loss following nutrient enrichment