A5085260953- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Plant and animal studies
- Landslides and related hazards
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Urban Planning and Landscape Design
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Forest Management and Policy
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
University of Haifa
2015-2024
Oranim Academic College of Education
2015-2024
Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute
2021
East China Normal University
2018
Google (United States)
2015
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2009-2014
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
2007-2011
Significance When houses are built close to forests or other types of natural vegetation, they pose two problems related wildfires. First, there will be more wildfires due human ignitions. Second, that occur a greater risk lives and homes, hard fight, letting fires burn becomes impossible. We examined the number have been since 1990 in United States near an area known as wildland-urban interface (WUI), found large there. Approximately one three ten hectares now WUI. These WUI growth trends...
This paper presents a review of concepts related to wildfire risk assessment, including the determination fire ignition and propagation (fire danger), extent which may spatially overlap with valued assets (exposure), potential losses resilience those (vulnerability). is followed by brief discussion how these can be integrated connected mitigation adaptation efforts. We then operational systems in place various parts world. Finally, we propose an system being developed under FirEUrisk...
Abstract The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is where buildings and wildland vegetation meet or intermingle 1,2 . It human–environmental conflicts risks can be concentrated, including the loss of houses lives to wildfire, habitat fragmentation spread zoonotic diseases 3 However, a global analysis WUI has been lacking. Here, we present map 2020 at 10 m resolution using globally consistent validated approach based on remote sensing-derived datasets building area 4 5 We show that phenomenon,...
Abstract Wildlife must adapt to human presence survive in the Anthropocene, so it is critical understand species responses humans different contexts. We used camera trapping as a lens view mammal changes activity during COVID-19 pandemic. Across 163 sampled 102 projects around world, amount and timing of animal varied widely. Under higher activity, mammals were less active undeveloped areas but unexpectedly more developed while exhibiting greater nocturnality. Carnivores most sensitive,...
Wildfire ignition distribution models are powerful tools for predicting the probability of ignitions across broad areas, and identifying their drivers. Several approaches have been used ignition-distribution modelling, yet performance different model types has not compared. This is unfortunate, given that conceptually similar species-distribution exhibit pronounced differences among types. Therefore, our goal was to compare predictive performance, variable importance spatial patterns...
Surging wildfires across the globe are contributing to escalating residential losses and have major social, economic, ecological consequences. The highest in U.S. occur southern California, where nearly 1000 homes per year been destroyed by since 2000. Wildfire risk reduction efforts focus primarily on fuel and, a lesser degree, house characteristics homeowner responsibility. However, extent which land use planning could alleviate wildfire has largely missing from debate despite large...
The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is the area in which human settlements adjoin or intermix with ecosystems. Although research on WUI has been focused wildfire risk to settlements, we argue here that there a need quantify extent of areas interact adjoining ecosystems, regardless their ability support fire spread. Besides wildfires, affect neighboring ecosystems through biotic processes, including exotic species introduction, wildlife subsidization, disease transfer, landcover conversion,...
Increasing numbers of homes are being destroyed by wildfire in the wildland-urban interface. With projections climate change and housing growth potentially exacerbating threat to property, effective fire-risk reduction alternatives needed as part a comprehensive fire management plan. Land use planning represents shift traditional thinking from trying eliminate wildfires, or even increasing resilience them, toward avoiding exposure them through informed placement new residential structures....
The wildland – urban interface (WUI) is the zone where human settlements are in or near areas of fire-prone vegetation. WUI widespread and expanding, with detrimental consequences to lives, property, neighboring ecosystems. While has been mapped many regions, Europe does not have a high resolution map date. Moreover, while most research focused on quantifying spatial temporal patterns, little known about relationship between socioeconomic conditions that drive its formation. Here, we present...
Analysing wildfire initiation patterns and identifying their primary drivers is essential for the development of more efficient fire prevention strategies. However, such analyses have traditionally been conducted at local or national scales, hindering cross-border comparisons formulation broad-scale policy initiatives. In this study, we present an analysis spatial variability initiations across Europe, focusing specifically on moderate to large fires (> 100 ha), examining influence both...
Abstract Globe-LFMC 2.0, an updated version of Globe-LFMC, is a comprehensive dataset over 280,000 Live Fuel Moisture Content (LFMC) measurements. These measurements were gathered through field campaigns conducted in 15 countries spanning 47 years. In contrast to its prior version, 2.0 incorporates 120,000 additional data entries, introduces more than 800 new sampling sites, and comprises LFMC values obtained from samples collected until the calendar year 2023. Each entry within provides...
Wildfire is globally an important ecological disturbance affecting biochemical cycles and vegetation composition, but also puts people their homes at risk. Suppressing wildfires has detrimental effects can promote larger more intense when fuels accumulate, which increases the threat to buildings in wildland-urban interface (WUI). Yet, occur, typically only a small proportion of within fire perimeter are lost, question what determines burn. Our goal was examine factors related building loss...
The positive monotonic relationship between habitat heterogeneity and species richness is a cornerstone of ecology. Recently, it was suggested that this should be unimodal rather than due to tradeoff environmental population sizes, which increases local extinctions at high levels. Here, we studied the richness–heterogeneity for an avian community using two different variables, foliage‐height diversity cover type diversity. We analyzed within types (grasslands, savannas, or woodlands)...
Species co-occurrence analysis is commonly used to assess how interspecific interactions dictate community assembly. Non-random co-occurrences, however, may also emerge from niche differences as well environmental heterogeneity. The relationships between species patterns, heterogeneity and niches are not fully understood, due complex among them. To analyse the these patterns processes, I developed synthetic models analysed a large dataset of tree across conterminous United States. Niche...
Identifying the processes that drive community assembly has long been a central theme in ecology. For microorganisms, traditional prevailing hypothesis states "everything is everywhere, but environment selects". Although bacterial floral nectar may be affected by both atmosphere (air-borne bacteria) and animals as dispersal vectors, environmental geographic factors shape microbial communities are unknown. We studied culturable Asphodelus aestivus its typical herbivorous bug Capsodes...
Ecology documents and interprets the abundance distribution of organisms. Ecoinformatics addresses this challenge by analyzing databases observational data. insects has high scientific applied importance, as are abundant, speciose, involved in many ecosystem functions. They also crucially impact human well-being, activities dramatically affect insect demography phenology. Hazards, such pollinator declines, outbreaks agricultural pests spread insect-borne diseases, raise an urgent need to...