Drori, R., Saaroni, H., Ziv, B., & Sheffer, E. 2021. Recent changes in the rain regime over the Mediterranean climate zone of Israel. Climatic change 167:15; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03161-6.
Uni, D., Groner, E., Hjazin, A.S., Johnswick, S., Winters, G., Sheffer, E., Rog, I., Wagner, Y., & Klein, T. 2021. Unexpectedly low leaf-to-root carbon 13 content in three hyper-arid acacia species. Journal of Plant Ecology 14(1): 117- 131, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaa080.
Dovrat, G., Sheffer, E., Landau, S.Y., Deutch, T., Gorelik, H. & Henkin, Z. 2021. Can Grazing Moderate Climatic Effects on Herbage Nutritional Quality? Agronomy 11(4), 700; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11040700.
Mandelmilch, M., Livne, I., Ben-Dor, E., & Sheffer, E. 2021. Mapping Phosphorus Concentration in Mediterranean Forests using different Remote Sensing methods. International Journal of Remote Sensing 42(15): 5698-5718. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2021.1929543.
Mandelmilch, M., Dadon, A., Ben Dor, E., & Sheffer, E. 2021. PCA-based Classification Using Airborne Hyperspectral Radiance Data, a Case Study: Mount Horshan Mediterranean Fores”. Geocarto International. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2021.1923830.
Elbaz, S., Sheffer, E., Lensky, I., & Levin, N. 2021. The impacts of spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions on the possibility of quantifying the phenology of woody Mediterranean species from VENμS. Remote sensing. 13(10), 1958; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101958.
Dovrat, G., & Sheffer, E. 2019. Symbiotic dinitrogen fixation is seasonal and strongly regulated in water‐limited environments. New Phytologist, 221(4), pp.1866-1877. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.1552.
Dadon, A., Mandelmilch, M., Ben- Dor, E., & Sheffer, E. 2019. Sequential PCA-based Classification of Mediterranean Forest Plants using Airborne Hyperspectral Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing 11(23), 2800; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs1123280.
Dovrat, G., Bakhshian, H., Masci, T., & Sheffer, E. 2020. The nitrogen economic spectrum of legume stoichiometry and fixation strategy. New Phytologist, doi.org/10.1111/nph.16543.
Drori, R., Dan, H., Sprintsin, M., & Sheffer, E. 2020. Precipitation-Sensitive Dynamic Threshold: A New and Simple Method to Detect and Monitor Forest and Woody Vegetation Cover in Sub-Humid to Arid Areas. Remote sensing, 12(8), 1231; doi:10.3390/rs12081231.
Sheffer, E., Cooper, A.C, Perevolotsky, A., & Osem, Y. 2020. Consequences of pine colonization in dry oak woodlands: effects on water availability and community structure., European Journal of Forestry; doi.org/10.1007/s10342-020-01287-3.
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.
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]
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]
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).