Lab Manager & Ph.D. student (co-mentored with Dror Minz)
Or studies the dynamics of plant and rhizosphere communities in our mesocosm experiment
Postdoc (co-mentored with Nadav Shnerb)
Santanu is developing a theory aiming to understand when ecosystem response to change is abrupt (alternative states, hysteresis) and when is it gradual.
Barel studies the effects of climate changes on flowering phenology using mesocosm experiments and global-scale analysis.
MSc. Student (co-mentored with Hila Segre)
Daniel quantifies the effects of low density afforestation (open-woodland) on the biodiversity of plants and birds.
MSc. student (co-mentored with Michael Kalyuzhny)
Yuval aim to understand the effects of disturbance on community dynamic by building population dynamics models for all species in our mesocosm experiment
MSc. Student (co-mentored with Hila Segre)
Atay's project is about the effects of low density afforestation (open-woodland) on the biodiversity of spiders and butterflies
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)
MSc. student (primarily mentored by Hila Segre)
Noel examines the effects of irrigation (climate-change mitigation) on pollinator communities
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
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 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)
David's experiments aimed to disentangle direct and indirect drivers of species loss following N enrichment.
Itunuoluwa Ayilara (2022)
Itunuoluwa experiments compared the effects of competition vs. plant-soil feedback under nutrient enrichment.
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
A farewell party to Orin, Yuval & Noa (August 2021) that helped us during the summertime. From right: Noa, Talia, Or, Yuval, David, Niv, Itunuoluwa, Tyler, and Orin