Prof. Marcelo Sternberg

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DeMalach, N., Kigel, J., Sternberg, M. (2020) The soil seed bank buffers long-term compositional changes in annual plant communities. Journal of Ecology DOI: https://doi:org/10.1111/1365-2745.13555

Zogas, A., Kosman, E., Sternberg, M. (2020) Germination strategies under climate change scenarios along an aridity gradient. Journal of Plant Ecology 13: 470–477, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaa035

Liu, R., Navon, Y., Steinberger Y., Sternberg, M. (2020) Effects of rainfall manipulations versus a natural aridity gradient on plant litter arthropods in desert and Mediterranean ecosystems. Applied Soil Ecology 156: 103716; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2020.103716

de Oliveira, G., Chen, J. M., Mataveli, G. A. V., Chaves, M. E. D., Rao, J.,  Sternberg, M., dos Santos, T. V., dos Santos, C. A. C. (2020) Evapotranspiration and precipitation over pasture and soybean areas in the Xingu River basin, an expanding Amazonian agricultural frontier. Agronomy 10, 1112; DOI: https://doi:10.3390/agronomy10081112    

Raviv, B. Khadka, J. Swetha, B., Singiri, J. R., Grandhi, R., Shapira, E.,  Novoplansky, N., Gutterman, Y., Galis, I., Sternberg, M., Grafi, G. (2020) Extreme drought alters progeny dispersal unit properties of winter wild oat (Avena sterilis L.). Planta 252:77 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-020-03491-2

Paschalis A., Fatichi S., Zscheischler J., Ciais P., Bahn M., Sternberg M…et al. (2020) Rainfall-manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: where do we stand? Global Change Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15024

Stotz, G. C., Cahill Jr J. F., Bennett, J.A., Carlyle, C. N., Bork, E. W., Askarizadeh, D.,  Bartha, S., Beierkuhnlein, C., Boldgiv, B., Brown, L., Cabido, M., Campetella, G.D., Chelli, S., Cohen, O.,  Díaz, S., Enrico, L., Ensing, D., Erdenetsetseg, D., Fidelis, A., Garris, H. G., Henry, H. A. L., Jentsch, A., Jouri, M. H., Koorem, K., Manning, P., Mitchell, R., Moora, M., Overbeck, G. E., Sternberg, M. Rooyen, M., Wellstein, C., Zobel, M., Fraser, L. (2020) Not a melting pot: plant species aggregate in their non-native range  Global Ecology & Biogeography 29:482–490 – doi.org/10.1111/geb.13046

De Boeck, H.J., Bloor, J.M., Aerts, R., Bahn, M., Beier, C., Emmett, B.A., Estiarte, M., Grünzweig, J.M., Halbritter, A.H., Holub, P., Jentsch, A., Klem, K., Kreyling, J., Kröel‐Dulay, G., Larsen, K.S., Milcu, A., Roy, J., Sigurdsson, B.D., Smith, M.D., Sternberg, M., Vandvik, V., Wohlgemuth, T., Nijs, I., Knapp, A.K. (2020) Understanding ecosystems of the future will require more than realistic climate change experiments - A response to Korell et al. Global Change Biology; 26:e6–e7, doi:10.1111/gcb.14854

Alon, M., Sternberg, M. (2019) Effects of extreme drought on primary production, species composition and species diversity of a Mediterranean annual plant community. Journal of Vegetation Science 30:1045–1055. doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12807

Ika D.....Sternberg, M.,..... et al. (2018) Early stage litter decomposition across biomes. Science of The Total Environment 629: 1369-1394.

Sternberg, M., Golodets, C. Gutman, M., Perevolotsky, Kigel, J. Henkin, Z. (2017) No precipitation legacy effects on aboveground net primary production (ANPP) and species diversity in grazed Mediterranean grassland: a 21-year experiment. Journal of Vegetation Science 28: 260-269.

Kreyling, J., Dengler, J., Walter, J., Velev, N., Ugurlu, E., Sopotlieva, D., Ransijn, J., Picon-Cochard, C., Nijs, I., Hernandez, P., G?ler, B., von Gillhaussen, P., De Boeck, H., Bloor, J.M.G., Berwaers, S., Beierkuhnlein, C., Abu Sayed, M., Khan, A., Apostolova, I., Altan, Y., Zeiter, M., Wellstein, C., Sternberg, M., Stampfli, A., Campetella, G., Bartha, S., Bahn, M., Jentsch, A. (2017) Species richness increases resilience after drought in a continental-scale coordinated experiment. Ecology Letters 20: 1405-1413.

Sternberg, M. (2016) From America to the Holy Land: Disentangling plant traits of the invasive Heterotheca subaxillaris (Lam.) Britton & Rusby. Plant Ecology 217: 1307-1314 - doi:10.1007/s11258-016-0656-z

Estiarte, M., Vicca, S., Peñuelas, J., Fay, P.A., Kigel, J, Kröel-Dulay, G., Lellei-Kovács, E., Ogaya, R., Sala, O., Smith, A., Sowerby, A., Sternberg.  M., Tietema, A., Janssens, IA.  (2016) Few multi-year precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship. Global Change Biology 22: 2570–2581 - DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13269

Rysavy, A., Seifan, M., Sternberg, M., Tielbörger, K. (2016) Neighbour effects on shrub seedling establishment override climate change impacts in a Mediterranean community. Journal of Vegetation 27: 227-237 - DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12359

Pither, J., Fraser, L. H., A. Jentsch, Sternberg, M., Zobel, M., et al. (2016) Response to comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness". Science 351: 457 – DOI: 10.1126/science.aad8019.

Lado, M., Inbar, A., Sternberg, M., Ben-Hur, M. (2016) Effectiveness of granular polyacramide to reduce soil erosion during consecutive rainstorms in a calcic regosol exposed to different fire conditions. Land Degradation & Development 27: 1453-1462 - DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2448

Fraser, L. H., Partel, M., Pither, J., Jentsch, A., Sternberg, M., Zobel, M. (2015) Response to comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness". Science 350: 1177.

DOI: 10.1126/science.aad4874

Fraser, L. H., Pither, J. Schmidt, A., Jentsch, A., Sternberg, M., Zobel, M., et al. (2015) Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness. Science 349:302-305 – DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3916

Hoffman, R., Liu, S.L., Lipkin, Y., Sternberg, M. (2015) First record of Dichotomaria cf. obtusata (J. Ellis & Solander) Lamarck (Nemaliales, Rhodophyta) in the Mediterranean. Mediterranean Marine Science 16:325-330.    

Golodets, C., Sternberg, M., Kigel, J., Boeken, B., Henkin, Z., Seligman, N. G., Ungar, E. U. (2015) Climate change scenarios of biomass production along an aridity gradient: vulnerability increases with aridity. Oecologia 177:971–979

Sternberg, M., Yakir D. (2015) Coordinated approaches for studying long-term ecosystem responses to global change: from local scales to big ecology. Oecologia 177:921–924.

Henkin, Z., Ungar, E.D., Perevolotsky, A.,Gutman, M. Yehuda, Y. Dolev, A. Landau, S., Sternberg, M., Seligman, N. G. (2015) Trade-offs between stocking rate, range productivity and livestock performance in a Mediterranean grassland. Rangeland Ecology & Management 68:332-340. 

Snir, A., Nadel, D. Groman-Yaroslavski, I. Melamed, Y., Sternberg, M. Bar-Yosef, O, Weiss, E. (2015) The origin of cultivation and proto-weeds, long before Neolithic farming PLoS One 10(7): e0131422 - DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131422. 

Fraser, L. H., Pither, J. Schmidt, A., Jentsch, A., Sternberg, M., Zobel, M., et al. (2015) Evidence to support the unimodal relationship between species richness and biomass production in herbaceous grassland communities: a globally distributed coordinated experiment. Science 349:302-305.

Sternberg, M., Golodets, C. Gutman, M., Perevolotsky, A., Ungar, E.D., Kigel, J. Henkin, Z. (2015) Testing the limits of resistance: a 19-yr study of Mediterranean grassland response to grazing regimes Global Change Biology 21: 1939-1950           doi: 10.1111/gcb.12866

Inbar, A., Ben-Hur, M., Sternberg, M., Lado, M (2015) Using polyacrylamide to mitigate post-fire soil erosion. Geoderma 239-240: 107-114.

Sternberg, M., Gabay, O., Angel, D., Barneah, O., Gafny, S., Gasith, A., Grünzweig, J.M., Hershkovitz, Y., Israel, A., Milstein, D., Rilov, G., Steinberger, Y., Zohary, T. (2015) Impacts of climate change on biodiversity in Israel - an expert assessment approach. Regional Environmental Change 15: 895-906.