Publications

  • Abramsky, Z., Ovadia, O., Rosenzweig, M.L. 1994. The shape of Gerbillus pyramidum (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) isocline: An experimental field study. Oikos 69:318-326.
  • Ovadia, O., Abramsky, Z. 1995. Density-dependent habitat selection: Evaluation of the isodar method. Oikos 73:86-94.
  • Ovadia, O., Ziv, Y., Abramsky, Z., Pinshow, B., Kotler, B.P. 2001. Harvest rates and foraging strategies in Negev desert gerbils. Behavioral Ecology 12:219-226.
  • Ovadia, O., Schmitz, O.J. 2002. Linking individuals with ecosystems: Experimentally identifying the relevant organizational scale for predicting trophic abundances. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 99:12927-12931.
  • Ovadia, O. 2003. Ranking hotspots of varying sizes: A lesson from the non-linearity of the species-area relationship. Conservation Biology 17:1440-1441.
  • Ovadia, O., zu Dohna, H. 2003. The effect of intra- and inter-specific aggression on patch residence time in Negev Desert gerbils: A competing risk analysis. Behavioral Ecology 14(4):583-591.
  • Schmitz, O.J., Vlastimil, K., Ovadia, O. 2004. Trophic cascades: The primacy of trait-mediated indirect interactions. Ecology Letters 204:153-163.
  • Ovadia, O., Schmitz, O.J. 2004a. Scaling from individuals to food webs: The role of size-dependent responses of prey to predation risk. Israel Journal of Zoology 50:273-297. (Invited peer-reviewed paper published as part of a special issue devoted to predation risk. Editors: L. Blaustein, B.P. Kotler, J.S. Brown).
  • Ovadia, O., Schmitz, O.J. 2004b. Weather variation and trophic interaction strength: Sorting the signal from the noise. Oecologia 140:398-406.
  • Ovadia, O., Abramsky, Z., Pinshow, B., Kotler, B.P. 2005. Inter-specific competitors reduce inter-gender competition in Negev Desert gerbils. Oecologia 142:480-488.
  • Kotler, B.P., Dickman, C.R., Wasserberg, G., Ovadia, O. 2005. The use of time and space by male and female gerbils exploiting a pulsed resource. Oikos 109:594-602.
  • Scharf, I., Ovadia, O. 2006. Factors influencing site abandonment and site selection in a sit-and-wait predator: A review of pit-building antlion larvae. Journal of Insect Behavior 19:197-218.
  • Scharf, I., Nolman, E., Ovadia, O., Bouskila, A. 2006. Efficiency evaluation of two competing foraging modes under different conditions. American Naturalist 168:350-357.
  • Feder, J., Ovadia, O., Glaser, B., Mishmar, D. 2007. Ashkenazi Jewish mtDNA haplogroup distribution varies among distinct subpopulations: Lessons of population sub-structure in a closed group. European Journal of Human Genetics 15:498-500.
  • Ovadia, O., zu Dohna, H., Booth, G., Schmitz, O.J. 2007. Consequences of body size variation among herbivores on the strength of plant-herbivore interactions in a seasonal environment. Ecological Modelling 206:119-130.
  • Filin, I., Ovadia, O. 2007. Individual size variation and population stability in a seasonal environment: A discrete-time model and its calibration using grasshoppers. American Naturalist 170:719-733.
  • Amar, S., Shamir, A., Ovadia, O., Blanaru, M., Reshef, A., Kremer, I., Rietschel, M., Schulze, T.G., Maier, W., Belmaker, H., Ebstein, R., Agam, G., Mishmar, D. 2007. Mitochondrial DNA HV lineage increases the susceptibility to schizophrenia among Israeli Arabs. Schizophrenia Research 94:354-358.
  • Scharf, I., Hollender, Y., Subach, A., Ovadia, O. 2008a. Effect of spatial pattern and microhabitat on pit construction and relocation in Myrmeleon hyalinus (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) larvae. Ecological Entomology 33:337-345.
  • Scharf, I., Filin, I., Golan, M., Buchshtav, M., Subach, A., Ovadia, O. 2008b. A comparison between desert and Mediterranean antlion populations: Differences in life history and morphology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:162-172.
  • Loria, R., Scharf, I., Subach, A., Ovadia, O. 2008. The interplay between foraging mode, habitat structure, and predator presence in antlions. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62:1185-1192.
  • Scharf, I., Filin, I., Ovadia, O. 2008c. An experimental design and a statistical analysis separating interference from exploitation competition. Population Ecology 50:319-324.
  • Feder, J., Blech, I., Ovadia, O., Amar, S., Wainstein, J., Raz, I., Dadon, S., Arking, D.E., Glaser, B., Mishmar, D. 2008. Differences in mtDNA haplogroup distribution among three Jewish populations alter susceptibility to T2DM complications. BMC Genomics 9:198.
  • Filin, I., Schmitz, O.J., Ovadia, O. 2008. Consequences of individual size variation on the survival of an insect herbivore: An analytical model and an experimental field testing using the Red-legged Grasshopper. Journal of Orthoptera Research 17:283-291 (Invited peer-reviewed paper published as part of a special issue devoted to Body Size in Orthoptera. Editor: D.W. Whitman).
  • Scharf, I., Ovadia, O., Bouskila, A. 2008d. Prey encounter rate by predators: Discussing the realism of grid-based models and how to model the predator’s foraging mode. American Naturalist 172:596–598.
  • Scharf, I., Subach, A., Ovadia, O. 2008e. Foraging behaviour and habitat selection in pit-building antlion larvae in constant light or dark conditions. Animal Behaviour 76: 2049-2057.
  • Scharf, I., Kotler, B., Ovadia, O. 2009a. Consequences of food distribution for optimal searching behavior: An evolutionary model. Evolutionary Ecology 23:245-259.
  • Scharf, I., Filin, I., Ben-Yehoshua, D., Ovadia, O. 2009b. Phenotypic plasticity and variation in morphological and life-history traits of antlion adults across a climatic gradient. Zoology 112:139-150.
  • Scharf, I., Golan, B., Ovadia, O. 2009c. The effect of sand depth, feeding regime, density and body mass on the foraging behavior of a pit-building antlion. Ecological Entomology 34:26-33.
  • Sadeh, A., Guterman, H., Gersani, M., Ovadia, O. 2009. Plastic bet-hedging in an amphicarpic annual: An integrated strategy under variable conditions. Evolutionary Ecology 23:373-388.
  • Scharf, I., Filin, I., Ovadia, O. 2009d. A trade-off between growth and starvation endurance in a pit-building antlion. Oecologia 160:453-460.
  • Feder, J., Ovadia, O., Blech, I., Cohen, J., Weinstein, J., Harman-Boehm, I., Glaser, B., Mishmar, D. 2009. Parental diabetes status reveals association of Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup J1 with Type 2 Diabetes. BMC Medical Genetics 10:60.
  • Subach, A., Scharf, I., Ovadia, O. 2009. Foraging behavior and predation success of the sand viper (Cerastes vipera). Canadian Journal of Zoology 87:520-528.
  • Scharf, I., Filin, I., Subach, A., Ovadia, O. 2009e. A morphological and life-history comparison between desert populations of a sit-and-pursue antlion, in reference to a co-occurring pit-building antlion. Naturwissenschaften 96:1147-1156.
  • Scharf, I., Barkae, E.D., Ovadia, O. 2010a. Response of pit-building antlions to repeated unsuccessful encounters with prey. Animal Behaviour 79:153-158.
  • Garbian, Y., Ovadia, O., Dadon, S., Mishmar, D. 2010. Gene expression patterns of oxidative phosphorylation complex I subunits are organized in clusters. PLoS ONE 5:e9985.
  • Shemesh, H., Arbiv, A., Gersani, M., Ovadia, O., Novoplansky, A. 2010. The effects of nutrient dynamics on root patch choice. PLoS ONE 5:e10824.
  • Rotkopf, R., Abramsky, Z., Ovadia, O. 2010. Conservation genetics of a rare Gerbil species: A comparison of the population genetic structures and demographic histories of the locally rare Pygmy Gerbil and the common Anderson’s Gerbil. BMC Ecology 10:15.
  • Barkae, E.D., Scharf, I., Subach, A., Ovadia, O. 2010. The involvement of sand disturbance, cannibalism and intra-guild predation in competitive interactions among pit-building antlion larvae. Zoology 113:308-315.
  • Amar, S., Ovadia, O., Maier, W., Ebstein, R., Belmaker, R.H., Mishmar, D., Agam, G. 2010. Copy number variation of the SELENBP1 gene in schizophrenia. Behavioral and Brain Functions 6:40.
  • Shemesh, H., Ovadia, O., Novoplansky, A. 2010. Anticipating future conditions via trajectory sensitivity. Plant Signaling & Behavior 5:1501-1503.
  • Scharf, I., Lubin, Y., Ovadia, O. 2011. Foraging decisions and behavioral flexibility in trap-building predators: A review. Biological Reviews 86:626-639.
  • Shemesh, H., Rosen, R., Eshel, G., Novoplansky, A., Ovadia, O. 2011. The effect of steepness of temporal resource gradients on spatial root allocation. Plant Signaling & Behavior 6:1356-1360.
  • Shemesh, H., Ovadia, O., Novoplansky, A. 2012. Prioritized contingencies: Context-dependent regeneratory effects of grazer saliva. Plant ecology 213:167-174.
  • Aflalo, E.D., Dandu R.V.S.N., Bommi N.A., Verghese J.T., Samraj T.Y.C., Hulata, G., Ovadia, O., Sagi, A. 2012. Toward a sustainable production of genetically improved all-male prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii): Evaluation of production traits and obtaining neo-females in three Indian strains. Aquaculture 338–341:197–207.
  • Scharf, I., Ovadia, O., Foitzik, S. 2012. The advantage of alternative tactics of prey and predators depends on the spatial pattern of prey and social interactions among predators. Population Ecology 54:187-196.
  • Bar-Yaacov, D., Arbel-Thau, K., Zilka, Y., Ovadia, O., Bouskila, A., Mishmar, D. 2012. Mitochondrial DNA variation, but not nuclear DNA, sharply divides morphologically identical chameleons along an ancient geographic barrier. PLoS ONE 7(3): e31372.
  • Horev, A., Yosef, R., Tryjanowski, P., Ovadia, O. 2012. Consequences of variation in male harem size to population persistence: Modeling poaching and extinction risk of Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris). Biological Conservation 147: 22–31.
  • Barkae, E.D., Scharf, I., Abramsky, Z., Ovadia, O. 2012. Jack of all trades, master of all: A positive association between habitat niche breadth and foraging performance in pit-building antlion larvae. PLoS ONE 7(3): e33506.
  • Arbiv, A., Khokhlova, I.S., Ovadia, O., Novoplansky, A., Krasnov, B.R. 2012. Use it or lose it: Reproductive implications of ecological specialization in a haematophagous ectoparasite. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 1140–1148.
  • Rotkopf, R., Barkae, E.D., Bar-Hanin, E., Alcalay, Y., Ovadia, O. 2012. Multi-axis niche examination of ecological specialization: Responses to heat, desiccation and starvation stress in two species of pit-building antlions. PLoS ONE 7(11): e50884.
  • Tsurim, I., Silberbush, A., Ovadia, O., Blaustein, L., Margalith, Y. 2013. Inter- and intra-specific density-dependent effects on life history and development strategies of larval mosquitoes. PLoS ONE 8(3): e57875.
  • Rotkopf, R., Alcalay, Y., Bar-Hanin, E., Barkae, E.D., Ovadia, O. 2013. Slow growth improves compensation ability: Examining growth rate and starvation endurance in pit-building antlions from semi-arid and hyper-arid regions. Evolutionary Ecology 27:1129–1144.
  • Ashckenazi-Polivoda, S., Rak, C., Almogi-Labin, A., Zsolt, B., Ovadia, O., Abramovich, S. 2014. Paleoecology of the K-Pg mass extinction survivor Guembelitria (Cushman): isotopic evidence from pristine foraminifera from Brazos River, Texas (Maastrichtian). Paleobiology 40(1):24-33.
  • Rotkopf, R., Ovadia, O. 2014. Examining growth rate and starvation endurance in pit-building antlions from Mediterranean and desert regions. Ecological Entomology 39(1): 94-100.
  • Barkae, E.D., Abramsky, Z., Ovadia, O. 2014. Can models of density-dependent habitat selection be applied for trap-building predators? Population Ecology 56(1): 175-184.
  • Alcalay, Y., Barkae, E.D., Ovadia, O., Scharf, I. 2014.Consequences of the instar stage for behavior in a pit-building antlion. Behavioural Processes 103:105-111.
  • Silberbush, A., Tsurim, I., Rosen, R., Margalith, Y., Ovadia, O. 2014. Species-specific non-physical interference competition among mosquito larvae. PLoS ONE 9(2):e88650.
  • Aflalo, E.D., Dandu, R.V.S.N., Verghese, J.T., Rao, N., Samraj, T.Y.C., Ovadia, O., Sagi, A. 2014. Neo-females production and all-male progeny of a cross between two Indian strains of prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii): Population structure and growth performance under different harvest strategies. Aquaculture 428: 7-15.
  • Gershoni, M., Levin, L., Ovadia, O., Toiw, Y., Shani, N., Dadon, S., Barzilai, N., Bergman, A., Atzmon, G., Wainstein, J., Tsur, A., Nijtmans, L., Glaser, B., Mishmar, D. 2014. Disrupting Mitochondrial–Nuclear Coevolution Affects OXPHOS Complex I Integrity and Impacts Human Health. Genome biology and evolution 6(10): 2665-2680.
  • Barkae, E.D., Golan, O., Ovadia, O. 2014. Dangerous neighbors: interactive effects of factors influencing cannibalism in pit-building antlion larvae. Behavioral Ecology 25(6): 1311-1319.
  • Alcalay, Y., Ovadia, O., Scharf, I. 2014. Behavioral repeatability and personality in pit-building antlion larvae under differing environmental contexts. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68(12): 1985-1993.
  • Alcalay, Y., Scharf, I., Ovadia, O. 2015. Foraging syndromes and trait variation in antlions along a climatic gradient. Oecologia 178(4): 1093-1103.
  • Busgang, A., Friedler, E., Ovadia, O., Gross, A. 2015. Epidemiological study for the assessment of health risks associated with graywater reuse for irrigation in arid regions. Science of the Total Environment 538: 230–239.
  • Shemesh, H., Ben-Yosef, U., Livne, S., Ovadia, O. 2016. The effects of temporal variation in soil carbon inputs on resource allocation in an annual plant. Journal of Plant Ecology doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtv033.
  • Livne-Luzon, S., Shemesh, H., Gilor, O., Ovadia, O. 2016. The effect of temporal variation in soil carbon inputs on interspecific plant competition. Journal of Plant Ecology doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtv076.
  • Livne, S., Avidan, Y., Weber, G., Migael, H., Bruns, T., Ovadia, O. Shemesh, H. 2016. Wild boars as spore dispersal agents of ectomycorrhizal fungi: Consequences for community composition at different habitat types. Mycorrhiza doi:10.1007/s00572-016-0737-9.
  • Barkae, E.D., Scharf, I., Ovadia, O. 2017. A stranger is tastier than a neighbor: cannibalism in Mediterranean and desert antlion populations. Behavioral Ecology 28 (1): 69-76.

Chapters in Collective Volumes

  • Shochat, E., Ovadia, O. 2011. Invasion, Evenness, and Species Diversity in Human-Dominated Ecosystems. In: The importance of biological interactions in the study of biodiversity (Edited by Jordi López-Pujol), InTech Publisher, Croatia.