Moshe Shachak

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Moshe Shachak is affiliated with the following schools: Weizmann Institute of Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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According to Wikipedia, Moshe Shachak is an ecologist at the Ben Gurion University. Shachak’s research focuses on ecosystem engineers, organisms that modulate the abiotic environment. Most of his studies were conducted in arid and semi arid ecosystems.

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Moshe Shachak's Published Works

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Organisms as ecosystem engineers (1994) (5572)
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ORGANISMS AS PHYSICAL ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS (1997) (2118)
Diversity of vegetation patterns and desertification. (2001) (537)
Ecosystem engineers: from pattern formation to habitat creation. (2004) (309)
Infiltration through three contrasting biological soil crusts in patterned landscapes in the Negev, Israel (2000) (246)
Vegetation patterns along a rainfall gradient (2004) (197)
The Ecological Basis of Conservation: Heterogeneity, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity (1997) (188)
Ecosystem Management of Desertified Shrublands in Israel (1998) (144)
Desert Plant Communities in Human-Made Patches--Implications for Management (1994) (134)
Litter as a regulator of N and C dynamics in macrophytic patches in Negev desert soils (1996) (125)
A mathematical model of plants as ecosystem engineers. (2007) (122)
Woody Species as Landscape Modulators and Their Effect on Biodiversity Patterns (2008) (119)
The effect of microphytes on the spectral reflectance of vegetation in semiarid regions (1996) (119)
Nitrogen fixation in macro- and microphytic patches in the Negev desert (1998) (114)
Predictability of ecosystem engineering effects on species richness across environmental variability and spatial scales (2006) (113)
Integration of ecosystem engineering and trophic effects of herbivores (2001) (113)
Microphytic crusts, shrub patches and water harvesting in the Negev Desert: the Shikim system (2002) (100)
Harvester ant response to spatial and temporal heterogeneity in seed availability: pattern in the process of granivory (2000) (99)
Herbivory in Rocks and the Weathering of a Desert (1987) (98)
Dynamics and spatial organization of plant communities in water-limited systems. (2007) (88)
The Ecological Basis of Conservation (2012) (80)
ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION TO A DESERT ECOSYSTEM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT (1998) (79)
A spectral soil quality index (SSQI) for characterizing soil function in areas of changed land use (2014) (73)
Vegetation patterns related to environmental factors in a Negev Desert watershed (1983) (69)
Temporal dynamics of soil and vegetation spectral responses in a semi-arid environment (2002) (69)
Patchiness and disturbance: plant community responses to porcupine diggings in the central Negev (1995) (69)
Why do plants in resource-deprived environments form rings? (2007) (66)
Fertilization of the desert soil by rock-eating snails (1990) (60)
Arid Lands Management: TOWARD ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY (1999) (58)
Emerged or imposed: a theory on the role of physical templates and self-organisation for vegetation patchiness. (2013) (57)
Shrubs enhance resilience of a semi‐arid ecosystem by engineering and regrowth (2008) (53)
Mechanisms of vegetation-ring formation in water-limited systems. (2011) (53)
Ecosystem engineering by organisms: why semantics matters. (1997) (52)
Defining the Scientific Issues (1997) (49)
The influence of scale and patchiness on spider diversity in a semi-arid environment (2002) (44)
The content and contributions of deposited aeolian organic matter in a dry land ecosystem of the Negev Desert, Israel (2001) (43)
Linking ecosystem engineers to soil processes: a framework using the Jenny State Factor Equation (2006) (42)
Untangling the positive and negative effects of shrubs on herbaceous vegetation in drylands (2012) (41)
The Effects of Grazing on Abiotic and Biotic Parameters in a Semiarid Ecosystem: A Case Study from the Northern Negev Desert, Israel (2001) (40)
Feeding, energy flow and soil turnover in the desert isopod, Hemilepistus reaumuri (1976) (39)
Aeolian deposition of nitrogen to sandy and loessial ecosystems in the negev desert (1992) (39)
Evaluation of ecosystem responses to land-use change using soil quality and primary productivity in a semi-arid area, Israel (2014) (39)
Positive feedback of consumer population density on resource supply. (1989) (37)
Linking Community and Ecosystem Processes: The Role of Minor Species (2006) (37)
Energy allocation and life history strategy of the desert isopod H. reaumuri (2004) (35)
Applying a field spectroscopy technique for assessing successional trends of biological soil crusts in a semi-arid environment (2007) (35)
Porcupine disturbances and vegetation pattern along a resource gradient in a desert (1991) (34)
Colonization by annual plants of an experimentally altered desert landscape: source—sink relationships (1998) (34)
Biodiversity in drylands : toward a unified framework (2004) (34)
A case study of energy, water and soil flow chains in an arid ecosystem (1982) (34)
The relationship between sit and wait foraging strategy and dispersal in the desert scorpion, Scorpio maurus palmatus (1983) (33)
Spatio-temporal scales of dispersal limitation in the recolonization of a semi-arid mediterranean old-field (2006) (33)
Relations Among Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity, Population Abundance, and Variability in a Desert (1991) (30)
High N2O emissions in dry ecosystems (2013) (30)
Shrubs, granivores and annual plant community stability in an arid ecosystem. (2004) (30)
Ecological Flow Chains and Ecological Systems: Concepts for Linking Species and Ecosystem Perspectives (1995) (29)
Linking functional diversity to resource availability and disturbance: a mechanistic approach for water‐limited plant communities (2016) (28)
Consumption and release of nitrogen by the harvester termite Anacanthotermes ubachi navas in the northern Negev desert, Israel (2003) (28)
Aeolian particle input to the soil surface at the northern limit of the Negev desert (1998) (28)
Application of the Herbicide, Simazine, and its Effect on Soil Surface Parameters and Vegetation in a Patchy Desert Landscape (2004) (27)
An Exceptional Event of Predation on Desert Snails by Migratory Thrushes in the Negev Desert, Israel (1981) (27)
Release and consumption of nitrogen by snail feces in Negev Desert soils (1996) (26)
Population dynamics and rôle of Hemilepistus reaumuri (Audouin & Savigny) in a desert ecosystem (1984) (23)
The Effect of Slope Direction and Population Density on Water Influx in a Desert Snail, Trochoidea seetzenii (1992) (22)
Educational model for environmental‐cognition development (1987) (22)
Plant size is related to biomass partitioning and stress resistance in water-limited annual plant communities (2019) (22)
An algae — Desert snail food chain: Energy flow and soil turnover (1980) (21)
Integrated Models of Forested Regions (1994) (20)
Geodiversity increases ecosystem durability to prolonged droughts (2017) (20)
Differential effects of goat browsing on herbaceous plant community in a two-phase mosaic (2011) (20)
Linking Ecological Understanding and Application: Patchiness in a Dryland System (1997) (19)
The role of animals in an arid ecosystem: snails and isopods as controllers of soil formation, erosion and desalinization. (Conference paper) (1995) (18)
Structural Changes of Desertified and Managed Shrubland Landscapes in Response to Drought: Spectral, Spatial and Temporal Analyses (2014) (18)
Fine-Scale Spatial Heterogeneity of Resource Modulation in Semi-Arid “Islands of Fertility” (2012) (18)
How landscape modulators function: woody plant impact on seed dispersal and abiotic filtering (2012) (17)
Ecosystem effects of integrating human-made runoff-harvesting systems into natural dryland watersheds (2017) (16)
Multiscale mapping of species diversity under changed land use using imaging spectroscopy. (2017) (15)
Habitat distribution in the desert snail Trochoidea seetzenii (1992) (14)
The Survival of the Desert Isopod Hemilepist'Us Reaumurii (Audouin) in Relation To Temperature (Isopoda, Oniscoidea) (1979) (14)
Phenology, activity and regulation of radiation load in the desert isopod, Hemilepistus reaumuri (2004) (14)
Effect of population density on water influx and distribution in the desert snail Trochoidea seetzenii (2002) (14)
Transformation of shrublands to forests: The role of woody species as ecosystem engineers and landscape modulators (2016) (14)
The application of remote sensing to study shrub—herbaceous relations at a high spatial resolution (2007) (13)
An Ecosystem Services Inventory: Lessons From the Northern Negev Long-Term Social Ecological Research (LTSER) Platform (2016) (13)
Predator - Prey Relationships: Rodent - Snail Interactions in the Central Negev Desert of Israel (1992) (13)
Toward a Comprehensive Conservation Theory (1997) (12)
Some aspects of the ecology of the desert snail Sphincterochila boissieri in relation to water and energy flow. (1976) (11)
Desert Snails´Daily Grind (1994) (9)
Ecological approach for afforestation in arid regions of the Northern Negev desert, Israel. (2001) (9)
Relationship among settling, demography and habitat selection: an approach and a case study (1988) (8)
The relative contributions of functional diversity and functional identity to ecosystem function in water‐limited environments (2019) (8)
Resource redistribution effects on annual plant communities in a runoff harvesting system in dryland (2019) (7)
The relationship between brood care and environmental unpredictability in the desert isopod Hemilepistus reaumuri (1985) (7)
Comparative study on the water economy of two sympatric species of desert snails (Sphincterochila zonata and S. prophetarum) (1981) (7)
Patterns of biotic community organization and reorganization: A conceptual framework and a case study (2010) (7)
Functional reorganization and productivity of a water-limited annual plant community (2020) (6)
“Ecological Thinking” as a Tool for Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A Model from Israel (2003) (6)
The spermatogenic cycle and role of the hermaphrodite duct in sperm storage in two desert snails (1991) (6)
Ecological aspects of vegetation removal from the coastal sand dunes of Israel (2005) (5)
12 - Model Studies of Ecosystem Engineering in Plant Communities (2007) (5)
Water use patterns of introduced carob trees (Ceratonia siliqua L.) on rocky hillslopes in the Negev Desert (1988) (5)
Landscape mosaic for enhancing biodiversity : on what scale and how to maintain it ? (2013) (5)
SETTLING BEHAVIOR OF THE DESERT ISOPOD HEMILEPISTUS REAUMURI IN RESPONSE TO VARIATION IN SOIL MOISTURE AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL CUES (2013) (4)
Geological formation, slope orientation, and the reproduction of a desert snail, Sphincterochila prophetarum (1981) (4)
Ecology of the small spotted lizard (Eremias guttulata guttulata) in the Negev desert (Israel) (1979) (4)
17 - Livestock and Engineering Network in the Israeli Negev: Implications for Ecosystem Management (2007) (4)
The relationship between species diversity and functional diversity along aridity gradients in semi-arid rangeland (2021) (3)
A model study of terraced riverbeds as novel ecosystems (2020) (3)
Using Transdisciplinary Action Research Toward Sustainable Management of Vineyard Management and Tourism in the Negev Highlands (2018) (2)
Canopy structure of woody landscape modulators determines herbaceous species richness along a rainfall gradient (2015) (2)
Harvester termites and organic matter flow in a semi-arid watershed : implications for ecosystem management. (1999) (2)
The Role of Plants as Ecosystem Engineers in Resilience to Climate Change (2010) (2)
Species Diversity and Ecosystem Processes in Water-Limited Systems (2005) (2)
A Dynamical System Approach to Aridity and Desertification (2004) (1)
POPULATION RESPONSE OF HEMILEPISTUS REAUMURI TO SOIL MOISTURE PATCHINESS (2013) (1)
COMPARATIVE SPATIAL PATTERNS OF THE TERRESTRIAL ISOPOD HEMILEPISTUS REAUMURI AT MULTIPLE SCALES (2013) (1)
The impact of animals on species diversity in arid-land plant communities. (2005) (1)
How landscape modulators function: woody plant impact on seed dispersal and abiotic filtering (2012) (0)
Ecology as a Tool for Desert Management (2019) (0)
Book Review (2004) (0)
Functional Restoration of Desertified, Water-Limited Ecosystems: The Israel Desert Experience (2023) (0)
The contribution of Web of Interactions framework to the whole system approach (2020) (0)
The engineering of multi-layer patchiness by plants: A framework for comparative studies of the effects of woody vegetation as landscape modulators across drylands (2010) (0)
Linking vegetation pattern formation and biodiversity (2010) (0)
High-integrity human intervention in ecosystems: Tracking self-organization modes (2020) (0)
A model study of terraced riverbeds as novel ecosystems (2020) (0)
Experiment to cultivate trees on the slopes of the Northern Negev (1983) (0)
Tracking and analysis of goat herd grazing patterns on hilly terrain using GPS and GIS technologies (2004) (0)
Web of interactions among diversity approaches to identify ecosystem essential variables: Negev Highlands case study (2019) (0)
Landscape patchiness along a rainfall gradient and its effects on hydrological processes. (2009) (0)
Functional reorganization and productivity of a water-limited annual plant community (2020) (0)
Shrubs as landscape modulators in semiarid shrubland - long-term studies in Park Shaked LTER, Israel (2010) (0)
Teaching the Concept of Desert Ecosystem (1979) (0)
Untangling the positive and negative effects of shrubs on herbaceous vegetation in drylands (2012) (0)
Hillslope minicatchment: utilization of surface runoff water to increase primary production in a rocky desert (1985) (0)
3 Deliverable title : New techniques to use hyperspectral remote sensing for studying ecosystem processes (2014) (0)
Canopy structure of woody landscape modulators determines herbaceous species richness along a rainfall gradient (2015) (0)
The role of dry riverbed terraces in the ecology of drylands (2018) (0)
The Desert Biome — A Simple System for Field Investigations of Ecological Principles (1980) (0)

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