02-2019
Academic Degrees and appointments
B.Sc. 1990 | Department of Biology, Oranim College, Haifa University, Israel. Summa Cum Laude. |
M.Sc. 1993 | Environmental Biology Curriculum, Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Summa Cum Laude. |
Ph.D. 1999 | Environmental Biology Curriculum, Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. |
2018 | Research Fellow, University of Technology, Sydney, AUS (sabbatical). |
2012 | Guest scientist, University of Cambridge, UK. (sabbatical). |
2008 – present | Associate Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel. |
2003 – 2008 | Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel. |
2000 – 2003 | Lecturer, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Israel. |
1998-2000 | Research Associate. Department of Forest Sciences, College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University. |
1994 – 1998 | Doctoral Student. Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Supervisors: Dr. Ronen Kadmon, Prof. Uzi Mutro. |
1990 – 1993 | Graduate Student. Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Supervisor: Prof. Uriel Safriel. |
Research Interests
- Spatial and dynamic models of ecological systems.
- Long term vegetation dynamics at the landscape scale.
- Local and regional patterns of biodiversity.
- Use of Remote Sensing and GIS for natural resources management.
- Spatial accuracy and error propagation in GIS databases.
- Modelling forest fire risk.
Academic activities
Technion Activities
2019 – present | Vice Dean for student affairs, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
2016 – present | Head, Environmental Engineering Curriculum. |
2016 – 2017 | Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
2016 – 2017 | Member, Technion Library Committee. |
2015 – 2016 | Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
2009 – 2011 | Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Environmental Engineering. |
2009 – 2011 | Seminar coordinator. Environment and Water Seminar. A joint seminar of the Department of Environmental Engineering and the Grand Water Institute. |
2001 – 2011 | Scientific Director. The Ecological Garden of The Technion. |
Public Professional Activities
2015 — 2017 | Chair. KKL Professional Scientific Committee (Established 2015). |
2014 | Member. International Advisory Panel, Science Division of Israel Nature and Parks Authority. |
2013 – 2015 | Affiliated member. Professional committee, Board of Israel Nature and Parks Authority. |
2013 – 2014 | Member. The Israel Council for Higher Education Committee for Central Research Infrastructure: Sub-Committee on Environment. |
2009 – 2017 | Founder and chair of the board. Ecology and Environment. A peer reviewed journal on the science and policy of environment. In Hebrew. |
2009 – 2016 | Member. Professional committee for research of the Sea of Galilee and its watershed, Israel Ministry of Infrastructure. |
2008, 2011, 2014, 2018 | Plenary Lecturer. Annual meeting of the Israel Biology Teachers. Various topics. Organized by the National Center for Biology Teachers. |
2007 – 2008 | Member. Accuracy-08 Scientific Committee (The 8th International Conference on Spatial Accuracy in Environmental Science, Shanghai, June 2008). |
2007 – 2014 | Speaker. Basha’ar activity: 1-2 visits annually in High school classes, teaching on global environmental change. |
2007 – 2013 | Member. The Israel Council of Botanical Gardens. |
2006 – 2010 | Chair. The Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Science. |
2006 – 2008 | Member, The National Biodiversity Committee, Israel Ministry of Environment. |
Editorial activities:
2014 — present | Editorial Board Member. Conservation Biology. |
2015 — 2018 | Editorial Board Member. PLoSONE. |
2006 – 2016 | Editorial Board member, Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution. |
Reviewer for journals:
Applied Vegetation Science, Conservation Biology, Diversity and Distributions, Ecology Letters, Ecosphere, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Management, Forest Ecology and Management, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Geographic Information Systems, Journal of Arid Environments, Journal of Surveying Engineering, Journal of Vegetation Science, Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape Ecology, Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Plant Ecology, PLoSONE, Rangeland Ecology and Management, Small Ruminant research, Trees—Structure and Function.
Reviewer for funding agencies:
2013 | Member. Forest Research Evaluation Committee, National Academy of Finland. |
2007 – 2010 | Member. Ecological and environmental research committee, KKL. |
2006 – 2011 | Member. Evaluation panel for forest research, The Israel Ministry of Agriculture. |
Four separate years | Member. Research Evaluation Committee, Israel Science Foundation; Binational Science Foundation. |
Various years | Promotion professional committees and reference letters: evaluation of a total of 8 faculty members from Haifa U., Ben Gurion University (3), USFS, IOLR, Bar Ilan University, and Tel Aviv University. |
2007 – 2010 | Member. Ecological and environmental research committee, KKL. |
2006 – 2011 | Member. Evaluation panel for forest research, The Israel Ministry of Agriculture. |
Four separate years | Member. Research Evaluation Committee, Israel Science Foundation; Binational Science Foundation. |
Graduate Students
Completed (principle advisor in bold).
- Stoller-Kavari, Liron. Using environmental surrogates for biodiversity mapping. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed 2003.
- Altman, Talia. Continental scale GIS analysis of potential capacity of ‘Energy Towers’. Supervisors: Dan Zaslavsky, Yerachmiel Deutcher, Yohay Carmel. Completed 2003, Summa Cum Laude.
- Bar Massada, Avi. Assessment of temporal changes in above-ground forest tree biomass using aerial photographs and allometric equations. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Dan Yakir (Weitzman Institute), Gilad Even Tzur. Completed 2004.
- Court, Lia. MSc. at the Natural Resources Program, Haifa University. GIS analysis of resource use by vultures in the Golan Heights. Supervisors: Ido Itzhaki (Haifa University), Yohay Carmel. Completed 2004.
- Fichler, Ezer. MSc. at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. Development of a model to identify urban development influences on ecosystems using fragmentation measures. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Pnina Plaut. Completed 2006.
- Segal, Bosmat. MSc. Nature reserve management for conservation of its natural resources. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed 2007.
- Bar Massada, Avi. PhD. Mapping and Modeling the Dynamics of Mediterranean Vegetation for Various Management Activities. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed 2009. Current position: Senior Lecturer, Haifa University, Oranim Campus.
- Blank, Lior. PhD. Representing biodiversity using woody vegetation patterns for ecosystem management. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2010. Current position: Researcher, Volcani Agricultural Research Institute.
- Makler, Vardit, PhD. A computer ecosystem model applied for studying the food web and water quality of Lake Kinneret. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Gideon Gal (Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institution). Completed: 2010.
- Kent, Rafi. PhD. Prioritizing land for ecosystem-conservation using multi-source and multi-scale information. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2010. Current position: Senior Scientist, Hamaarag.
- Liberzon, Yonatan, MSc. Seasonal dynamics of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in Lake Kinneret. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Dror Angel (Haifa University). Completed: 2010.
- Gahashan, Faris. MSc. Spatially explicit Fire risk assessment of Mediterranean forests in Israel. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Maxim Shoshani. Completed: 2011.
- Federman, Roy. MSc. Potential distribution and monitoring the invasive species the Little Fire Ant Wasmannia auropunctata. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2011. Current position: Regional Scientist, Amakim region, Nature and Parks Authority.
- Porat, Yahel. MSc. Reptile- and Amphibian species diversity in the agro-ecosystems: evaluating the ecological value of agricultural land uses. Supervisors: Tamar Dayan, Tel Aviv University, Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2011. Current position: Head of the Ecology Department, Israel Forest Authority, KKL.
- Nezer, Oded. MSc. Modelling distribution and habitat of the re-introduced Wild Ass in the Negev Desert. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Shirli Bar David (Ben Gurion). Completed: 2011. Current position: Head of Solid Waste Department, Israel Ministry of Environment.
- Davidson, Achiad. MSc. Predicting movement pathways using non-invasive methods: The reintroduced Asiatic wild ass in the Negev. Supervisors: Shirli Bar David (Ben Gurion), Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2011.
- Vadov, Olga. MSc. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Gil Rilov (IOLR). Completed: 2013.
- Noy, Gili. MSc. A quantitative approach for Environmental Impact Assessment of a desalination plan: Shavei-Zion case study. Supervisors: David Broday, Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2014.
- Troupin, David. PhD. Systematic conservation planning for dynamic ecological and anthropogenic Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2015. Current position: Research Associate, Haifa University.
- Zach, Aviv. MSc. Optimal Combination of Various Wildlife Overpasses and Underpasses in Roads in Israel. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2017.
- Zafon, Zohar. MSc. Can landscape characteristics represent biodiversity as an indicator of ecological value? Supervisors: Daniel Orenstein, Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2017. Current position: Head of Planning Division, KKL South District.
- Segal, Ella. MSc. Quantifying the grazing services offered by goats for fire zone maintenance in Mt. Carmel. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Serge Yan Landau (Volcani ARO). Completed: 2017.
- Shabtay, Ateret. PhD. Marine spatial planning along the Israeli Mediterranean coast: integrating infrastructure and marine protected areas. Supervisors: Michelle Portman, Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2018. Current position: Postdoc in France.
- Gueta, Tomer. PhD. Enhancing biodiversity research using data quality assessment, bias detection and data cleaning. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2019.
In progress
- Segre, Hila. PhD. Supervisors: Assaf Schwartz, Yohay Carmel. Cost-benefit analysis of agro-ecological schemes. Expected completion: 2019.
- Gao, Junjing. PhD. Modelling grazing impact of nomadic pastoralists in the northern China and in the eastern Mediterranean region. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Expected completion: 2019.
- Hadar, Liat. PhD. Supervisors: Daniel Orenstein (Technion), Yagil Osem (ARO), Yohay Carmel. Expected completion: 2019.
- Rohatin, Shani. PhD. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Dan Yakir. Expected completion: 2020.
- Tsafrir, Anat. PhD. Supervisors: Ofer Ovadia (BGU), Yagil Osem (ARO), Yohay Carmel. Expected completion: 2019.
Incomplete
The late Gil Sapir. PhD. Spatially explicit model for post-fire vegetation regeneration. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Initiated 2005. Died 2008.
Post-Docs
- Vijay Barve. 2016-2017. Data-Cleaning of Big Biodiversity Data.
- Harel Agra. 2013-2016. Forest conservation evidence.
- Rafi Kent. 2011-2012. Multiscale quantification of species composition determinants.
- Hagai Shemesh. 2011-2013. Selecting optimal locations for establishing new populations of The Lortet Iris. Current position: Lecturer, Tel Hai College.
- Amit Dolev. 2008-2010. Controlling space use by cattle using artificial troughs and feeding sites. Current position: District Scientist, Northen District, Nature and Parks Authority.
- Jose Gruenzweig. 2003-2004. A Comparative Study of vegetation dynamics in Mediterranean Ecosystems in California and in Israel. Current position: Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Research Grants
2019 The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities grant for: The Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on ‘Socio-Technological Evolution of the Human Species: Is Humanity undergoing an evolutionary transition‘. $40,000. Y Carmel, A Shavit (Tel Hai College), and E Lam (TAU).
2016-2019 Israel Science Foundation (ISF). Integrating data cleaning with data analysis to enhance usability of big biodiversity data. $210,000. Y Carmel.
2013-2016 Binational Science Foundation (BSF). Mycorrhiza as a mediator between the timing and intensity of fire and the regeneration of Mediterranean woodlands. $210,000. H Shemesh (Tel Hai College), O Ovadia (Ben Gurion University), Y Osem (ARO), Y Carmel (Technion).
2013-2016 Yad Hanadiv. Forest Conservation Evidence. $154,000. Y Carmel (Technion).
2011-2013 Jewish National Fund and the Nature and Parks Authority. Selecting the best locations for establishing new populations of The endangered Lortet Iris. $25,000. Y Carmel, (Technion), H Shemesh (Tel Hai College), Y Sapir (Tel Aviv University).
2010-2012 Israel Science Foundation (ISF). Multi-scale determination of species composition determinants. $190,000. Y Carmel.
2006-2008 Jewish National Fund. Fire risk assessment for The Judea Mountains. $35,000. Y Carmel, M Shoshany (Technion), S Paz (Haifa Univ).
2006-2008 Jewish National Fund. Model of post-fire vegetation regeneration. $15,000. G Sapir (Technion) and Y Carmel.
2006-2008 Israel Ministry of Science. Biodiversity and ecosystem management across a rainfall gradient in Israel. $300,000. Five research groups. Technion share $32,000.
2005-2007 Israel Science Foundation (ISF). Hierarchical model for Mediterranean vegetation dynamics. $130,000. Y Carmel, I Noy Meir (Hebrew University). Technion share $130,000.
2004-2005 Israel Ministry of Science. Assessment of chronic exposure of the Haifa Bay population to air pollution and possible relations to morbidity. $300,000, S Linn (Haifa University). D Broday, Y Carmel (Technion). Technion share $200,000.
2004-2005 International Arid Lands Consortium. Dryland vegetation dynamics and landscape vulnerability to wildfire. $100,000, groups from the University of Arizona, Technion, Alicante University (Spain) and Haifa University (Technion share $15,000).
2003-2005 Jewish National Fund. Spatially explicit fire risk assessment of Mediterranean forests in Israel. $25,000. Y Carmel.
2002-2004 U.S. Forest Service. Comparative vegetation dynamics in California and Israel. $150,000. Y Carmel, C Flather (U.S. Forest Service, CI). Technion share $110,000
2002 Israel Ministry of Environment. Environmental surrogates for mapping biodiversity. $15,000. Y Carmel.
2002-2004 Israel Ministry of Agriculture. Hydrological and ecological functions of canals and streams – optimization approach. $90,000, U Shavit, O Lahav, Y Carmel (Technion).
2002-2003 International Arid Lands Consortium. Optimizing resource management under spatial uncertainty. $90,000, T. Ellsworth (Univ. of Illinois), Y Carmel, D Broday (Technion). Technion share $45,000
2001-2003 Israel Ministry of Agriculture. Spatial model of effluent irrigation effects on surface runoff. $50,000, R Wallach (Hebrew University), A Shaviv, Y Carmel (Technion).
2001-2002 Israel Nature and Parks Authority. Nature reserve management for conservation of its endangered Iris species. $13,000. Y Carmel.
2006-2007 Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Program for a selected set of National Parks in Nigeria. A GEF (Global Environmental Facility) – World Bank project. Dr. Yehuda Shevah, Prof. Janice Elaine Olawoye, Dr. Yohay Carmel. 2007 Scientific Advisor of the Hebrew edition of ‘Inconvenient Truth’ by Al Gore. 2008 Ecological assessment of protection alternatives for the South Dead Sea region, conducted for the Dead Sea Preservation Government Company. Refereed Papers in Professional Journals (In bold red: students and postdocs in my lab). Books Agra H, Carmel Y, Smith RK, Ne’eman G. 2016. Forest conservation: Global evidence for the effects of interventions. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Book Chapters Carmel Y. 2005. Aggregation as a means of increasing thematic map accuracy. In: Atkinson P, Martin D, Foody GM, editors. Geodynamics. CRC Press, London, pages 29-38. A peer-reviewed book. Naveh Z, Carmel Y. 2004. The evolution of the cultural Mediterranean landscape in Israel as affected by fire, grazing, and human activities. In: Wasser S, editor. Evolutionary theory and processes: modern horizons. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Pages 337-409. Carmel Y, Kadmon R. 2000. Using historical aerial photographs for mapping vegetation changes. In: Kedar B, editor. Remote sensing. Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem, Israel. In Hebrew. Other publications Sapir G, Carmel Y. 2010. Predicting post-fire vegetation regeneration in pine plantations. Ecology and Environment 408(20):4429-4439. A peer-reviewed journal in Hebrew. McCreary D. Grüzweig J. M. Carmel Y, Flather CH. 2008. The response of native oaks from California and Israel to Drought. In: A. Merelender, D. McCreary, K. L. Purcell, Technical Editors. Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Opportunities. USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station General Technical Report PSW-GTR-217. pp. 293-300. Invited Plenary Lectures 2019 Mythology in Ecology. A plenary lecture opening the 54th Annual Congress of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa. Upington, Cape Province, South Africa., July 2019. 2006 A methodology for translating positional error into measures of attribute error, and combining the two error sources. A plenary lecture at the 7th international symposium on spatial accuracy in natural resources and environmental sciences. Pages 3-17 in The Symposium Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2006. 2002 Ecosystem complexity and landscape complexity: implications for land planning and management. A plenary lecture at the XVII Conference of the Italian Association of Ecology, Urbino, Italy, September 2002. Invited international presentations 2018 Myth in Ecology. In: The Ecological Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK, April 2018. 2017 Myth-ecology. In: The 3rd International Compassionate Conservation Conference, Sydney, Australia, November 2017. 2016 Complete competitors coexist forever. In: The ‘Ecology and Statistics seminar’, Department of Ecological Modelling, University of Goettingen, Germany, July 2016. 2015 Fire, grazing, and Mediterranean vegetation dynamics. In: seminar, Department of Plant Biology, University of Barcelona, Spain, March 2015. 2014 A mechanism for the ‘niche-neutrality continuum’. In: The Institute Seminar, The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa, Panama, September 2014. 2014 Prediction in Ecology. In: The Barro-Colorado Seminar, The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Barro-Colorado, Panama, September 2014. 2013 Putting the pieces together. In: The 4th NNC Workshop, Liverpool, UK, November 2013. 2012 Uncertainty and predictive power in ecological modelling. In: The Ecological Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK, March 2012. 2009 Comparing environmental and biological surrogates for biodiversity at a local scale. In: The 45th International Congress of SISV and FIP. Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, June 2009. 2008 The necessity of clean technologies. In: Energy crossroads forum on advanced cleantech from Israel. Stanford, California, November 2008. 2007 Long-term monitoring for biodiversity conservation – the case of Nigeria national parks. In: Optimal and robust monitoring for conservation, a working group hosted by the Australian Centre for Excellence in Risk Assessment, Tasmania, August 2007. 2006 A methodology for translating positional error into measures of attribute error. Seminar at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, North Carolina. September 2006. 2006 Mapping biodiversity using alternative surrogates. Seminar at the Office of the Gran Paradiso National Park, Torino, Italy, September 2006. 2005 Landscape scale vegetation dynamics in the Mediterranean ecosystems. Department of Geography, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 2005. 2004 Post-fire vegetation regeneration in Mediterranean Woodlands in Israel. Workshop on Dryland Vegetation Dynamics and Landscape Vulnerability to Wildfire. University of Alicante, Spain, December 2004. 2004 Biodiversity mapping using environmental surrogates. In: ‘Setting priorities and making decisions for conservation risk management‘ – a working group meeting in the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, April 2004. 1999 Comparing long term dynamics of woodlands in California and Israel. In: IHRMP (Integrated Hardwood Range Management) annual meeting, Visalia, California, June 1999. 1999 An empirical model for predicting the consequences of alternative management decisions in Mediterranean vegetation. In: Predicting species occurrences – issues of scale and accuracy. Snowbird, Utah, October 1999. Presentations in international conferences 2017 Carmel Y. Recasting the competitive exclusion principle. In: EcoTas, Ecological Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference. August 2017. Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia. 2016 Carmel Y, and Gueta T. Why you must clean your big data. In: Ecosummit. August 2016. Montpellier, France. 2015 Carmel Y, Suprunenko Y, Kunin B, and Cornell, S. 2015. Complete competitors coexist forever. In: The Annual meeting of the British Ecological Society. October 2015. Edinburgh, UK. 2014 A possible mechanism to solve the ‘plankton paradox’. In: The 8th MEDECOS Conference (International Conference of Mediterranean Ecosystems), Olmué, Chile, October 2014. 2003 Carmel Y. Aggregation as a means of reducing raster data uncertainty. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on GeoComputation. University of Southampton, UK, September 2003. 2003 Carmel Y. and Naveh Z. Ecosystems and landscapes: Land management implications. Keynote talk at the symposium on Science and Society, The International Association for Landscape Ecology World Congress, Darwin, Australia, July 2003. 2001 Carmel Y, Dean D.J and Flather C.H. Combining Location and Classification Error Sources for Estimating Multi-temporal Database Accuracy. Pages 107-108 in: Development of European landscapes — Proceedings of The IALE European conference (International Association of Landscape Ecology), Tartu, Estonia, July 2001. 2000 Carmel Y, Flather C.H. and Dean D.J. Modeling Vegetation Dynamics of Californian oak woodlands. ‘World Conference on Natural Resource Modelling’. Wageningen, the Netherlands, June 2000. Invited plenary lectures in Israel 2011 Summary of the symposium – from the viewpoint of an interested outsider. A plenary lecture closing the 2nd annual symposium of Conservation practice in the Nature and Parks Authority. Herzelia, Israel, December 2011. 2011 Disturbance and Mediterranean vegetation dynamics: Stochastic or deterministic processes? A plenary lecture at the 12th Merav Ziv Symposium, Sde-Boker, Israel, May 2011. Invited presentations in Israel 2014 A broad look at Israel’s vegetation. In: Mediterranean woodlands in Israel. In: Israel tour guides conference, Ramat Hanadiv, April 2014. 2013 Studying global changes: can we integrate across domains? In: Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar: Coordinated Approaches for Studying Long-term Ecosystem Responses to Global Change. Ramat Hanadiv, October 2013. 2011 Prediction in ecology. In: The Zoology Seminar, Tel Aviv University, November 2011. 2011 LiDAR and image segmentation for mapping Mediterranean vegetation sturcture. In: Sensing in Agriculture – an International Symposium in Memory of Dahlia Greidinger, The Technion, February 2011. 2008 Do Foragers Optimize or Satisfice? In: Department seminar, Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University, July 2008. 2008 Agriculture as a driving force in global environmental changes. In: ‘Nekudat Chen’ Annual Workshop, Zova, October 2008. 2007 Towards a strategy for coping with forest fires in Israel. In: The annual research workshop, KKL (Israel Forest Authority), Bet Dagan, December 2007. 2006 Mapping fire risk using multiple runs of fire behaviour model. In: The annual research workshop, KKL (Israel Forest Authority), Bet Dagan, December 2005. 2006 Two approaches to identify priority areas for Conservation. In: International workshop on approaches in biodiversity modelling. Deapartment Seminar, Ben Gurion University, March 2006. 2005 A comparison of two approaches for identifying key areas for biodiversity conservation. In: The international meeting of ISEEQS, Weizmann Institute, May 2005. 2005 Mediterranean landscapes in Israel and in California: The vegetation point of view. In: The Environmental History of Israel: An international workshop, Yad Ben Tzvi, Jerusalem, June 2005. 2005 Landscape-scale vegetation changes following disturbance in California and the Mediterranean basin. In: Active Management of Mediterranean Ecosystems. Ramat Hanadiv International Workshop, Ramat Hanadiv, April 2005. 2003 Mapping Biodiversity with environmental parameters. Office of the Chief Scientist, Israel Ministry of Environment. Jerusalem, December 2003. 2002 Mediterranean Vegetation Dynamics. In: Department of Geography Seminar, University of Haifa, January 2002. 2000 Comparison of Vegetation Dynamics in Israel and California. In: Land cover/land use change in arid regions: Remote sensing applications in the middle east — An international workshop. Ben Gurion University, October 2000.