People

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Rotem is a PhD candidate working on nutrient limitation in diverse annual plant communities.

Moshe is a PhD candidate working on the function and evolution of dinitrogen fixation in Mediterranean ecosystems.

Ilan is a PhD candidate

Daphna is a PhD candidate working on water - carbon - nitrogen dynamics in acacia trees in the Arava. Her work is done in Sheizaf wadi in the Arava (with Gidon Winters), in the Weizmann institute of Science (with Tamir Klein), and in our lab.

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I've always loved to solve the puzzles of the natural world around us, and to try to understand some parts of this enormous complexity. My work in the past ranged from the self-organization of specific plant species in space to landscape-scale colonization by different tree species and the formation of novel ecosystems. My questions come from the natural ecosystems and are based on field observations and research. However, I like to also use all kinds of statistical, theoretical, and spatial models as tools for answering these questions. As a new researcher at the faculty of agriculture, I want to continue doing basic and applied (conservation focused) ecological research, as well as agriculturally-oriented studies.

I live up north in kibbutz Hukuk. I did my B.Sc in agricultural sciences. My M.Sc reaserch focuses on Tetraclinis articulata, a coniferous tree from the cupressaceae family. This alien tree was planted in Israel four decades ago but only now it's high rate of propagating is being noted. During this reaserch I will try to understand the biological and ecological factors that have turned this alien tree into a potentially invasive species.
I am very interested in both agriculture and forestry and

Moshe is a PhD candidate at Tel-Aviv University (co-advised by Eyal Ben-Dor and Efrat). The goal of remote sensing is to collect information on different objects without contact. My research uses hyperspectral and multispectral remote sensing to model the content on nutrients in Mediterranean forests.

Roni is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab, using extra-cool combinations of remote sensing, statistics and machine learning to study Mediterranean vegetation at large scales, and to unravel the effects of climate change on the woody vegetation in Israel.

Anil came from Nepal and he is a MSc student in the international program for master in plant science. Anil studies how nutrient limitation influence dinitrogen fixation in a suite of natural and agricultural (chickpea) herbaceous legume species.

Lab alumni:

Postdoctoral fellow
As a rancher and field researcher my research focuses on the links between resource availability, community structure and ecosystem function in water-limited plant communities. My fields of interests span animal-plant interactions, to functional traits and functional diversity-productivity relations.

MSc student
I'm a second year Master's student. My study focuses on the reproductive and nitrogen fixation strategies of Mediterranean annual legumes. The study aims to solve the paradox of coexistence of nitrogen fixing annual legumes with non-fixing competitors in low nitrogen Mediterranean ecosystem.

Yoav did a research project in his 3rd year, in which he studied how domestication of wild pea has influenced its dinitrogen fixation efficiency. Yoav is now a master student working on plankton ecology at the Inter-University Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat.

People

Efrat Sheffer

Tania Masci

Rotem Dagan

Moshe Alon

Ilan Elhanan

Daphna Uni

Ken Karu

Moshe Mandelmilch

Ron Drori

Anil Babu Pokhrel

Lab alumni:

Guy Dovrat

Hila Abadi

Yoav Avrahami

Pedro Ricardo Andres de Carillo

The Sheffer Lab