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Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
Research topics in our lab are human impacts on plants, ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles at the organismic, community and ecosystem scale. Specifically, we focus on climate change, biodiversity loss, land-use change and rising atmospheric CO2 as anthropogenic driving forces that influence the performance of plants, particularly trees, and the functioning and services of ecosystems, such as Mediterranean forests and shrublands.
Research Projects
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Decoupling above- from belowground litter decomposition and impacts on stabilization of soil organic matter with increasing aridity
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Linking ecohydrology and carbon sequestration in semiarid forests subjected to contrasting climate seasonality
- Contribution to climate change mitigation of planted forests along an aridity gradient in Israel
- “Smart Urban Trees” - monitoring and improving tree and root
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Consequences of invasive Prosopis species for ecosystems functioning around the Dead Sea and strategies to prevent future invasions
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Dryland-specific mechanisms of organic matter decay and their contribution to the CO2 flux from decomposition in dry shrubland ecosystems
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Saving Oak Populations at the Edge of the Desert from the Threat of Climate Change
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Recent Publications
- Wolberg, S., Dumbur, R., Netzer, Y., Grünzweig, J. M., & Shtein, I. (2024). High temperature induces investment in phloem and increases sucrose accumulation in grapevine. Trees, 1-9.
- Fu, F., Wang, S., Wu, X., Wei, F., Chen, P. and Grünzweig, J.M., 2024. Locating hydrologically unsustainable areas for supporting ecological restoration in China's drylands. Earth's Future, 12(3), p.e2023EF004216.
- Preisler, Y., Grünzweig, J. M., Ahiman, O., Amer, M., Oz, I., Feng, X., ... & Yakir, D. (2023). Vapour pressure deficit was not a primary limiting factor for gas exchange in an irrigated, mature dryland Aleppo pine forest. Plant, Cell & Environment, 46(12), 3775-3790.
- Grünzweig, J.M., De Boeck, H.J., Rey, A. et al. Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world. Nat Ecol Evol (2022).
- Grünzweig, J. M., and Gliksman. D., "Litter Decomposition in Mediterranean Pine Forests Subjected to Climate Change." Pines and Their Mixed Forest Ecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin. Springer, Cham, 2021. 325-342
- Oren, I., Mannerheim, N., Fangmeier, A., Buchmann, N., & Grünzweig, J. M. (2021). Patterns of total root and shoot carbon dioxide fluxes and their impact on daily tree carbon budget in large tropical tree saplings. Tree Physiology
- Preisler, Y., Hölttä, T., Grünzweig, J. M., Oz, I., Tatarinov, F., Ruehr, N. K., ... & Yakir, D. (2021). The importance of tree internal water storage under drought conditions. Tree physiology.