Researcher interests: Movement ecology, the study of all types of movements by all kinds of organisms, particularly dispersal of plant seeds by wind and by animals, other plant-animal interactions such as seed predation by ants and foraging of frugivorous birds and bats, and seasonal bird migration. Use of diverse research approaches to study organism movement, including analyses of genetic variation (microsatellites for pines and bats), biotelemetry tracking, micrometeorological measurements, GIS analyses and other spatial statistics and various kinds of models.
FACULTY / SCHOOL: Faculty of Science
Selected Publications
seasonal differences in energy expenditure flight characteristics and spatial utilization of dalmatian pelicans pelecanus crispus in greece (2019)|
Ibis|
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a comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation (2019)|
Ecological Monographs|
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large birds travel farther in homogeneous environments (2019)|
Global Ecology and Biogeography|
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managing uncertainty in movement knowledge for environmental decisions (2018)|
Conservation Letters|
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early arrival at breeding grounds causes costs and a trade off with overwintering latitude (2018)|
Journal of Animal Ecology|
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the characteristic time scale of perceived information for decision making departure from thermal columns in soaring birds (2018)|
Functional Ecology|
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home range size and resource use of breeding and non breeding white storks along a land use gradient (2018)|
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution|
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moving in the anthropocene global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements (2018)|
Science|
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using accelerometry to compare costs of extended migration in an arctic herbivore (2017)|
Current Zoology|
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extinction and vulnerability to extinction at distribution peripheries an analysis of the israeli breeding avifauna (2013)|
Israel Journal of Zoology|
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migration by soaring or flapping numerical atmospheric simulations reveal that turbulence kinetic energy dictates bee eater flight mode ()|
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences|
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pervasive human mediated large scale invasion analysis of spread patterns and their underlying mechanisms in 17 of china s worst invasive plants ()|
Journal of Ecology|
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