Dovrat, G. & Sheffer, E. (2018). Symbiotic dinitrogen fixation is seasonal and strongly regulated in water‐limited environments. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15526
Dovrat, G., Masci, T., Bakhshian, H., Mayzlish Gati, E., Golan, S., & Sheffer, E. (2018). Drought‐adapted plants dramatically downregulate dinitrogen fixation: Evidences from Mediterranean legume shrubs. Journal of Ecology 106, 1534-1544 [PDF]
Tarnita, C. E., Bonachela, J. A., Sheffer, E., Guyton, J. A., Coverdale, T. C., Long, R. A., & Pringle, R. M. (2017). A theoretical foundation for multi-scale regular vegetation patterns. Nature, 541(7637), 398-401.
see press cover in Science, NY Times, CNN, and in Hebrew in ynet, mako, and Zavit.
Sheffer,E., Batterman, S.A., Levin, S.A., and Hedin, L.O. (2015). Biome-scale nitrogen fixation strategies selected by climatic constraints on nitrogen cycle. Nature Plants, 1: 1518. doi:10.1038/nplants.2015.182 [PDF]
highlighted by Ben Houlton in Nature Plants, in PNAS journal club and media
Bonachela, J.A., Pringle, R.M, Sheffer, E., Coverdale, T.C., Guyton, J.A., Caylor, K.K., Levin, S.A., and Tarnita, C.E. (2015). Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change. Science, 347(6222): 651-655. [PDF]
and see Science editorial on the paper, and media ראיון ברשת ב
Sheffer, E., Canham, C.D., Kigel, J. and Perevolotsky, A. (2015). Countervailing effects on pine and oak leaf litter decomposition in human-altered Mediterranean ecosystems. Oecologia, DOI 10.1007/s00442-015-3228-3. [PDF]
Sheffer, E., Canham, C.D., Kigel, J. and Perevolotsky, A. (2014). Predicting the formation of a new upper canopy strata following colonization of native shrublands by pines. Forest science, 60(5): 841-850. [PDF]
Sheffer, E., Canham, C.D., Kigel, J. and Perevolotsky, A. (2014). An integrative analysis of the dynamics of landscape- and local-scale colonization of Mediterranean woodlands by pines. PloS one, 9(2): e90178. [PDF]
Sheffer, E., von Hardenberg, J., Yizhaq, Y., Shachak, M., and Meron, E. (2013). Emerged or imposed: a theory on the role of physical templates and self-organisation for vegetation patchiness. Ecology Letters, 16: 127-139. [PDF]
Sheffer, E., Canham, C.D., Kigel, J. and Perevolotsky, A. (2013). Landscape-scale density-dependent recruitment of oaks in planted forests - More is not always better. Ecology, 94: 1718–1728. [PDF]
Perevolotsky, A. and Sheffer, E. (2012). Integrated management of heterogeneous landscape - Mediterranean Israel as a case study. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 57: 111-128. [PDF]
Koniak, G., Sheffer, E., and Noy-Meir, I. (2012). Recreation as an environmental service in open landscapes in the Mediterranean region in Israel: public preferences. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 57: 151-171. [PDF]
Sheffer, E. (2012). A review of the development of mediterranean pine-oak ecosystems after land abandonment and afforestation: are they novel ecosystems? Annals of Forest Science, 69: 429-443. [PDF]
Sheffer E., Yizhaq, H., Shachak M. and Meron E. (2011). Mechanisms of vegetation-ring formation in water-limited systems. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 273: 138–146. [PDF]
Perevolotsky, A. and Sheffer, E. (2009). Forest Management in Israel – The Ecological Alternative. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences, 57: 35–48. [PDF]
Sheffer E., Yizhaq H., Gilad E., Shachak M. and Meron E. (2007). Why do plants in resource deprived environments form rings? Ecological Complexity, 4: 192-200. [PDF]
Sheffer, E., Meron, E., and Shachak, M. (2007). Self-organization and vegetation pattern formation: Poa bulbosa L. as a model species. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 52(2):159 – 204, Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Quality Sciences (Iseeqs).
Books, edited books and chapters:
Sheffer E., Shachak M., and Perevolotsky A. (2013). Ecosystem based management of Ramat Hanadiv Park as a model of a socio-ecological coupled system with multiple processes. In: Conserving and Managing Mediterranean Ecosystems: The Ramat Hanadiv Case Study and Beyond. A. Perevolotsky (editor). Zichron Yaacov: Ramat Hanadiv. (in Hebrew). [PDF]
Sheffer, E., and Shkedy, Y. (editors) (2008). Adulam Long-term Ecological research – Summary of three years of research. 192 p. Science division, Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Jerusalem. (in Hebrew). [PDF]
Shachak M., Boeken B., Groner E., Kadmon R., Lubin Y., Meron E., Ne'eman G., Perevolotsky A., Ungar E. , Sheffer E. and Shkedy Y. (2008). Woody Species as Landscape Modulators and their Effect on Biodiversity Patterns. pp. 22-45. In: Sheffer, and E. Shkedy, Y. (editors). Adulam Long-term Ecological research – Summary of three years of research. Science division, Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Jerusalem. (in Hebrew).
Shresta B., Sheffer E., Ungar U.D., Baram H., Shachak M. and Perevolotsky A. (2008). Mediterranean maquis recovery following clear-cutting and grazing management interventions. pp. 63-85. In: Sheffer, and E. Shkedy, Y. (editors). Adulam Long-term Ecological research – Summary of three years of research. Science division, Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Jerusalem. (in Hebrew).
Publications in peer-reviewed journals:
