Publications

Refereed articles in scientific journals and book chapters

Schwarz, R. and Ziv, Y. 2024. The potential effects of agrophotovoltaics on biodiversity: A review of existing literature and knowledge gaps. Biological Reviews, accepted. 

Ozeri, L., Rotem, G., Johnson, A.D., Karni, T., Ovadia, O. and Ziv, Y. 2024. Arthropod removal in wheat fields enhanced yield regardless of natural habitat patch proximity. Journal of Environmental Management 370 (2024) 122961. Ozeri et al. 2024

Shabi, T., Ziv, Y., Yosef, R., and Shashar, N. 2024. Deciphering preferences for shelter volume and distribution by coral reef fish, using systematic and functional grouping. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 12(1), 186. Shabi et al. 2024

Zylberberg, T., Rotem, G. and Ziv. Y. 2023. Evaluating soil seed banksof phosphate mining restoration in the hyper-arid Negev desert. Restoration Ecology, e13938. Zylberberg et al. 2023

Gabay, T., Petrova, E., Gillor, O., Ziv, Y. and Angel, R. 2023. Only a minority of bacteria grow after wetting in both natural and post-mining biocrusts in a hyperarid, phosphate mine. Soil 9:231–242. Gabay et al. 2023

Tigreros, N., Kozhoridze, G., Davidowitz, G. and Ziv, Y. 2023. Influence of the direct and indirect effects of landscape fragmentation, via microclimate change, on animal locomotion. Landscape Ecology 38:,847-859. Tigreros et al. 2023

Shmuel, Y., Ziv, Y. and Rinkevich, B. 2022c. Trapezia crabs that dwell in distictive day/night canopy compartments of marine animal forest,forage on demersal plankton. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 10(10):1522. Shmuel et al. 2022c

Shmuel, Y., Ziv, Y. and Rinkevich, B. 2022b. Coral-inhabiting Trapezia crabs forage on demersal plankton. Frontiers in Marine Science and Engineering 9: 964725. Shmuel et al. 2022b

Markfeld, M., Rotem, G. and Ziv, Y. 2022. A network approach for analyzing arthropod diversity and natural patches prioritization in a fragmented agroecosystem. Landscape Ecology,
volume 37:1527-1541. Markfeld et al. 2022

Shmuel, Y., Ziv, Y. and Rinkevich, B. 2022a. Strahler ordering analyses on branching coral canopies: Stylophora pistillata as a case study. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10:121. Shmuel et al. 2022a

Halle, S., Garrido, M., Noy, K., Messika, I., Kedem, H., Cohen, C., Ytzhak, K., Siegal, Z., Shenbrot, G., Zvika Abramsky, Z., Ziv, Y., Karnieli, A. and Hadas Hawlena. 2022. Cascading effects of sand stabilization on pathogen communities: connecting global and local processes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31:215-232. Halle et al. 2022

Gabay, T., Rotem, G., Gillor, O. and Ziv, Y. 2022. Understanding changes in biocrust communities following phosphate mining in the Negev Desert. Environmental Research, 207:112200. Gabay et al. 2022

Aloni, I., Ziv, Y. and Markman, S. 2021. Age- and sex-specific strategies of spring migration in the masked shrike are reflected in a differential response to winter climate conditions. Climate Change Ecology, 2:100028. Aloni et al. 2021

Levi, N., Hillel, N., Zaady, E., Rotem, G., Ziv, Y., Karnieli, A., and Paz-Kagan, T. 2021. Soil quality index for assessing phosphate mining restoration in a hyper-arid environment. Ecological Indicators, 125:107571. Levi et al. 2021

Pragai-Olswang, G. and Ziv, Y. 2021. Scale-independence in beetle species diversity-productivity relationship: The importance of heterogeneity arrangement in space. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, doi.org/10.1163/22244662-bja10023. Pragai-Olswang and Ziv 2021

Kazes, K., Rotem, G. and Ziv, Y. 2020. Effects of vineyards and olive plantation on reptiles in a Mediterranean agroecosystem. Herpetologica 76:414-422. Kazes et al. 2020

Giladi, I. and Ziv, Y. 2020. The efficacy of species-area relationship to indicate fragmentation effects varies with grain size and with heterogeneity. Ecological Indicators, Giladi and Ziv 2020

Muller, C.M., Linke, B., Stickert, M. Ziv, Y., Giladi, I. and Gemeinholzer, B. 2019. Comparative genomic analysis of three co-occurring annual Asteracea along micro-geographic fragmentation scenarios. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Muller et al. 2019

Chase, J.M. et al. 2019. FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments. Ecology, Chase et al. 2019

Aloni, I., Markman, S. and Ziv, Y. 2019. Temperatures in early autumn in the wintering grounds affect birds’ body condition during spring migration in three warbler species. PLOS ONE, Aloni et al. 2019

Ziv, Y. and Davidowitz, G. 2019. When landscape ecology meets physiology: effects of habitat fragmentation on resource allocation trade-offs. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00137.  Ziv and Davidowitz 2019.pdf

Gavish, Y., Giladi, I. and Ziv, Y. 2019. Partitioning species and environmental diversity in fragmented landscapes: do the alpha, beta and gamma components match? Biodiversity and Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1007/s1051-018-01691-7.  Gavish et al. 2019.pdf

Dengler, J. et al. 2018. GrassPlot – a database of multi-sclae plant diversity in Palaeartic grasslands. Phytocenologia 3:331-347.  Dengleret al. 2018.pdf

Hakalehto, E., Godia, P., Del Amo, R. and Ziv, Y. 2018. Some connections and “meeting points” of microbial ecology and Zoological ecology – what can we learn? In: Microbial Environmental Hygiene (E. Hakalehto, ed.). Nova Science Publisher. Hakalehto et al. 2018

Bergholz, K., May, F., Ristow, M., Giladi, I., Ziv, Y. and Jeltsch, F. 2017. Two Mediterranean annuals feathure high within-population trait variability and respond to a precipitation gradient. Basic and Applied Ecology 25:48-58. Bergholtz et al. 2017b.pdf

Aloni, I., Markman, S. and Ziv, Y. 2017. February precipitation in the wintering grounds of the Lesser Whitethroat, Sylvia curruca: Is it a cue for migration onset? Royal Soceity Open Science, https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9. figshare.c.3679081.  Aloni et al. 2017.pdf

Glick, A., Barkai, D., Knol, Yaacov, Ziv, Y., Rotem, G. and Zaady, E. 2017. Sort-term effects of grazing on herbaceous biomass and species diversity in planted Eucalyptus forest at northwestern Negev. Ecology and Environment. (In Hebrew).

Gavish, Y. and Ziv, Y. 2017. Species-occupancy distribution removes excessive parameter from species-area relationship. Journal of Biogeography, 44:937-949. Gavish and Ziv 2017.pdf

Bergholz, K., May, F., Giladi, I., Ristow, M., Ziv, Y. and Jeltsch, F. 2017. Environmental heterogeneity drives fine-scale species assembly and functional diversity of annual plants in a semi-arid environment. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 24:138-146.Bergholtz et al. 2017a

Gavish, Y. and Ziv, Y. 2016. Joint effect of habitat identity and spatial distance on spiders’ community similarity in a fragmented transition zone. PLOS ONE. Gavish and Ziv 2016.pdf

Rotem, G. and Ziv, Y. 2016. Crop diversity and rotation may increase dispersal opportunities of reptiles in a heterogeneous agroecosystem. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 235:32-37.
Rotem and Ziv 2016.pdf

Rotem, G., Gavish, Y., Shacham, B., Giladi, I., Bouskila, A. and Ziv, Y. 2016. Combined effects of climatic gradient and domestic livestock grazing on reptile community structure in a heterogeneous agroecosystem. Oecologia 180:231-242. Rotem et al. 2016.pdf

Giladi, I., May, F., Rostow, M., Jeltsch, F. and Ziv, Y. 2014. Scale-dependent species-area and species-isolation relationships – a review and a test study from a fragmented semi-arid agro-ecosystem. Journal of Biogeography, 41:1055-1069. Giladi et al. 2014.pdf

May, F., Giladi, I., Ristow, M., Ziv, Y. and Jeltsch, F. 2013b. Plant functional traits and community assembly along interacting gradients of productivity and fragmentation. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 15:304-318. May et al. 2013b.pdf

May, F., Giladi, I., Ristow, M., Ziv, Y. and Jeltsch, F. 2013a. Metacommunity, mainland-island system or island communities? Assessing the regional dynamics of plant communities in a fragmented landscape.  Ecography 36:1-12.  May et al. 2013a.pdf

Rotem, G., Bouskila, A., Ziv, Y. and Giladi, I. 2013c. Natural patches within agroecosystem-are they stepping stones?  Ecology and the Environment 4:73-78.  Rotem et al. 2013c (In Hebrew)

Rotem, G.., Ziv, Y.,Giladi, I. and Bouskila, A. 2013b. Wheat fields as an ecological trap for reptiles in a semiarid agroecosystem.  Biological Conservation 167:349-353.  Rotem et al. 2013b.pdf

Rotem, G., Bouskila, A., Ziv, Y. and Giladi, I. 2013a. Natural patches within an agro-ecosystem: Are they ‘stepping stones’? Ecology and Environment 4:73-78. (In Hebrew) Rotem et al. 2013a.pdf 

Segev, U. and Ziv, Y. 2012. Consequences of behavioural vs. numerical dominance on foraging activity of desert seed-eating ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66:623-632.  Segev and Ziv 2012.pdf

Gavish, Y., Ziv, Y. and Rosenzweig, M. L. 2012. Decoupling fragmentation from habitat lost for spiders in patchy agricultural landscapes.  Conservation Biology, 26:150-159.  Gavish et al. 2012.pdf

May, F., Giladi, I., Ziv, Y. and Jeltsch, F. 2012. Dispersal and diversity – unifying scale-dependent relationships within the neutral theory.  Oikos 121:942-951.  May et al 2012.pdf

Giladi, I., Ziv, Y., May, F. and Jeltsch, F. 2011. Scale-dependent determinants of plant species density in a semiarid fragmented agroecosystem. Journal of Vegetation Science 22:983–996.  Giladi et al. 2011.pdf

Belmaker, J., Ziv, Y. and Shashar, N. 2011. The influence of connectivity on richness and temporal variation of reef fishes. Landscape Ecology 26:587-597.  Belmaker et al. 2011.pdf

Shanas, U., Galyun, Y. A., Alshamlih, M., Cnaani, J., (Ucitel) Guscio, D., Khoury, F., Mittler, S., Nassar, K., Shapira, I., Simon, D., Sultan, H., Topel, E. and Ziv, Y. 2011. Landscape and a political border determine desert arthropods distribution. Journal of Arid Environments 75:284-289.  Shanas et al. 2011.pdf

Segev, U., and Ziv, Y. 2009. Seed augmentation has a limited effect on species diversity of sand-dwelling ants. Israel Journal of Entomology 39:147-157.  Segev and Ziv 2009.pdf

Belmaker, J., Ziv, Y., and Shashar, N. 2009. Habitat patchiness and predation modify the distribution of coral-dwelling damfish. Marine Biology 156:447-454.  Belmaker et al. 2009.pdf

Geraldes, A., Basset, P., Gibson, B., Smith, K. L., Harr, B., Yu, H.-T., Bulatova, N., Ziv, Y. and Nachman, M. W. 2008. Inferring the history of speciation in house mice from autosomal, x-linked, y-linked and mitochondrial genes. Molecular Ecology 17:5349-63.  Geraldes et al. 2008.pdf

Belmaker, J., Ziv, Y., Shashar, N. and Connolly, S. 2008. Regional variation in the hierarchical partitioning of diversity in coral-dwelling fishes. Ecology 88:2829-2840.  Belmaker et al 2008.pdf

Yaacobi, G., Ziv, Y. and Rosenzweig, M.L. 2007b. Habitat fragmentation may not matter to species diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (London) 274:2409-2412.  Yaacobi et al.2007b.pdf

(Editor’s Choice – The whole is the sum of the parts. Science Vol. 317(5841), 24 August 2007.)  Science 2007-Editor Choice-Yaacobi et al. 2007.pdf

Belmaker, J., Polak, O., Shashar, N. and Ziv, Y. 2007. Geographic divergence in the relationship between Paragobiodon echinocephalus and its obligate coral host. Journal of Fish Biology 71:1555-1561.  Belmaker et al. 2007.pdf

Keasar, T., Sadeh, A., Shilo, M. and Ziv, Y. 2007. Social organization and pollination efficiency in the carpenter bee Xylocopa pubescens (L.) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Anthophoridae). Entomologia Generalis 29:225-236.  Keasar et al. 2007.pdf

Belmaker, J., Ben-Moshe, N., Ziv, Y. and Shashar, N. 2007. Determinants of the steep species-area relationship of coral reef fishes. Coral Reefs 26:103-112.  Belmaker et al. 2007.pdf

Yaacobi, G., Ziv, Y. and Rosenzweig, M. L. 2007a. Effects of interactive scale-dependent variables on beetle diversity patterns in a semi-arid agricultural landscape. Landscape Ecology 22:687–703.  Yaacobi et al. 2007a.pdf

Shanas, U., Abu Galyun, Y., Alshamlih, M., Cnaani, J., (Ucitel) Guscio, D., Khoury, F., Mitler, S., Nassar, K., Shapira, I., Simon, D., Sultan, H., Topel, E. and Ziv, Y. 2006. Reptile diversity and rodent community structure across a political border. Biological Conservation 132:292-299.  Shanas et al. 2006.pdf

Israely, N., Ziv, Y. and Galun, R. 2005. Metapopulation spatial-temporal distribution patterns of Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera:Tephritidae) in a patchy environment. Annals of Entomological Society of America 98:302-308.  Israely et al. 2005b.pdf

Abramsky, Z., Rosenzweig, M. L., Elbaz, M. and Ziv, Y. 2005. Does interspecific competition from congeners cause the scarcity of Gebillus henleyi in productive sandy desert habitats? Journal of Animal Ecology 74:567-578.  Abramsky et al .2005.pdf

Belmaker, J., Shashar, N. and Ziv, Y. 2005. Effects of small-scale isolation and predation on fish diversity on experimental reefs. Marine Ecological Progress Series 289:273-283.  Belmaker et al. 2005.pdf

Ziv, Y., Rosenzweig, M. L. and Holt, R. D. 2005. SHALOM: A landscape simulation model for understanding biodiversity. In: Biodiversity in Drylands (M. Shachak and J. R. Gosz, eds.). Oxford University Press.  Ziv et al. 2005.pdf

Israely, N., Ziv, Y. and Oman, S. 2005. Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) in the central region of Israel. Annals of Entomological Society of America 98:77-84.  Israely et al. 2005.pdf

Ziv, Y. and Tsairi, A. 2004. The species richness-productivity relationship: time to stop searching for a “true” pattern? Community Ecology 5:177-180.  Ziv and Tsairi 2004.pdf

Filin, I. and Ziv, Y. 2004. New theory of insular evolution: unifying the loss of dispersability and body-mass change. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6:1-10. Filin and Ziv 2004.pdf

Ziv, Y. and Kotler, B. P. 2003. Giving-up densities of foraging gerbils: the effect of interspecific competition on patch use. Evolutionary Ecology 17:333-347.  Ziv and Kotler 2003.pdf

Ziv, Y. 2003. Predicting patterns of mammalian species diversity from a process-based simulation model. Journal of Mammalogy 84:1-19.  Ziv 2003.pdf

Ovadia, O., Ziv, Y., Abramsky, Z., Pinshow, B. and Kotler, B. P. 2001. Harvest rates and foraging strategies in Negev desert gerbils. Behavioral Ecology 12:219-226.  Ovadia et al. 2001.pdf

Ziv, Y. and Smallwood, J. A. 2000. Gerbils and Heteromyids – interspecific competition and the spatio-temporal niche. In: Activity Patterns in Small Mammals. (H. S. Halle and N. C. Stenseth, eds.). Pp. 159-176.  Ecological Studies 141.  Springer, Berlin.  Ziv and Smallwood 2000.pdf

Ziv, Y. 2000. On the scaling of habitat specificity with body size. Ecology 81:2932-2938.  Ziv 2000.pdf

Rosenzweig, M. L. and Ziv, Y. 1999. The echo pattern of species diversity: pattern and processes. Ecography 22:614-628.  Rosenzweig and Ziv 1999.pdf

Ziv, Y. 1998. The effect of habitat heterogeneity on species-diversity patterns: A community-level approach using an object-oriented landscape simulation model (SHALOM). Ecological Modelling 111:135-170.  Ziv 1998.pdf

Bronstein, J. L. and Ziv, Y. 1997. Costs of two non-mutualistic associates in a yucca/yucca moth mutualism. Oecologia 112:379-385.  Bronstein and Ziv 1997.pdf

Ziv, Y. and Bronstein, J. L. 1996. Infertile seeds of Yucca schottii: a beneficial role for the plant in the yucca-yucca moth mutualism? Evolutionary Ecology 10:63-76.  Ziv and Bronstein 1996.pdf

Ziv, Y., Kotler, B. P., Abramsky, Z. and M. L. Rosenzweig. 1995. Foraging efficiencies of competing rodents: why do gerbils exhibit shared-preference habitat selection? Oikos 73:260-268.  Ziv et al. 1995.pdf

Ziv, Y., Abramsky, Z., Kotler, B. P. and Subach, A. 1993. Interference and temporal and habitat partitioning in two gerbil species. Oikos 66:237-246.  Ziv et al. 1993.pdf

Published scientific reports and technical papers

Ziv, Y. & Rotem, G., 2024. Ecological restoration study of the phosphate mines in the Oron-Zin region, Spatial Ecology Lab. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Beer-Sheva. Ziv and Rotem 2024 – Final report (In Hebrew)

Bachi, A. (Ziv, Y., Chairperson; Abramsky, Z, Bouskila, A., Saltz, D., Inbar, M., Yom-Tov, Y., committee members). 2000. Animal crossing along roads: review and recommendations. The Animal Road Crossing Committee. The Zoological Society of Israel and the Nature and Parks Authority (In Hebrew).  Bachi (et al) 2000-Animal crossing report.pdf (In Hebrew)

Ziv, Y., Tsoar, H. and Zaady, E. 2008. Spatially geomorphologic analysis of the western Negev sands region. Scientific Forum for Assessing the Conservation Status of the Western Negev Sands Region. Ben-Gurion University and the Nature and Parks Authority (In Hebrew).  Ziv and Tsoar and Zaadi 2008 – Geomorphology of western Negev sands.pdf (In Hebrew)

Giladi, I. and Ziv, Y. 2010. Conservation of rare plant species in agricultural mosaics at southern Judea lowlands. Nekudat Chen Foundation (In Hebrew)

Brokovich, E., Avisar, A., Adler, U., Adler, D., Ohad, N., Ulanovsky, H., Oron, E., Oren, M., Etinger, E., Elyakim, I., Amdur, L., Endvelt, R., Epel, B., Berry, E., Ben-Hur, M., Ben Haim, U., Braun, Y., Berman, T., Gabay, E., Gavrieli, Y., Gutman, J., Goldstein, A., Dayan, T., Dean, L., Distelfeld, A., Ziv, Y., Haikin, T., Trakhtenbrot, A., Caspi Oron, S., Levine, H., Mayor, S., Miller, H., Mandelik, Y., Manor, S., Segre, H., Skutelsky, O., Perez, S., Chehanovsky, N., Cukierman, G., Kissinger, M., Kachan, A., Rothschild, A., Rotem, D., Ramon, U., Shaltiel Harpaz, L., Sagi, Y., Sagi, H., Schwartz, A., Steinberger, Y., Steiner, N., Shalev Koernblit, D., Shalem, E., Shepon, A., & Shapira, I. 2016. Combining objectives and indices for sustainable agriculture in the frame of direct supports to agriculture. Experts’ opinion, The Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. pp 52. Available from http://www.isees.org.il/committee/sustainable-agriculture/ (In Hebrew)

Rotem, G., Vilan, I., Ben-Haim, U. and Ziv, Y. 2017. Environment friendly Agriculture in ‘Yoav’ regional council: Integrating existing knowledge and establishing a multi-disciplinary forum for sustainable implementation. Nekudat Chen Foundation (In Hebrew)

Gil, H., Ziv, Y., Rotem, G., Ramon, U., Mandelik, Y., Segre, H., Keasar, T., Rotem, D., Shelef, O., Shapira, I., & Levi, A. 2020. Wildlife friendly agricultural practices – Natural habitat patches and field margins – Experts’ opinion. The Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. pp 30. Available from https://www.isees.org.il/committee/ (In Hebrew)