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19 September, 2023
News
Visit to China
19 September, 2023
Prof. Jose Gruenzweig and Dr. Chongyang Xu recently visited China as part of the NSFC-ISF joint project, "Linking Ecohydrology and Carbon Sequestration in Semiarid Forests Subjected to Contrasting Climate Seasonality."
During their visit, they met their collaborators Prof. Hongyan Liu from Peking University and Prof. Pengtao Yu from Chinese Forestry Academy, and visited the monitoring sites located in the semiarid forests of Saihanba.
Litterbags in Spain
10 July, 2023
Our PhD student, Shai Schechter, is examining the climate's impact on litter decomposition. By placing litterbags at six different sites across Spain.
EGU assembly
8 May, 2023
Recap of last week's EGU conference, where our PhD. student, Shai Schechter, had an oral presentation and our post doc, Laura Bigio, presented a poster, in a session on dryland mechanisms.
Field work
4 January, 2023
Dr. Chongyang Xu, postdoc in our lab, is installing automatic band dendrometers on Aleppo pine trees in Hakedoshim forest to track tree growth and water use dynamics.
Latest publication
4 January, 2023
A new review on global grassland carbon sequestration and its responses to global changes, published in a new journal by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Drylands matter! Check out our newest publication:
26 July, 2022
In a new perspective we argue that considering the rules of life in dry areas can promote a better understanding of how climate change affects Earth’s wetter areas, such as temperate and tropical forests, grasslands and agricultural fields.
"Effects of cattle grazing on nutrient cycling and soil fauna"
20 June, 2022
Dor Pinchevsky's Poster for Amirim Honor students program day
Field measurements
24 April, 2022
PhD students Omri Hasson and Simon Ludovicy worked very hard to extract tree ring cores from oak trees at the dry edge of their distribution to study drought and grazing effects on radial growth.
Field measurements
29 March, 2022
Msc. student, Alon Levinzon, measuring physiological gas exchanges using the Licor 6800 on Ziziphus trees at Wadi El-Ahmar, Valley of Jordan, to examine the effect of the Prosopis trees - invasive species that spread in the valley, on the indigenous species - the Ziziphus tree.