The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
Our lab students, Katja Irob and Erez Harel, installed meteorological stations at four sites in Spain along a natural aridity gradient.
The stations will collect detailed environmental data to track how climate conditions affect litter decomposition above and below ground. This will help us understand how increasing aridity influences carbon cycling and the stabilization of soil organic matter.
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.
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.
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.
Dor Pinchevsky's Poster for Amirim Honor students program day
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.
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.