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Moura Fernandes, R., Sternberg, M., Vorst, C., Katz, O.. (2024) Plant silicon content as a proxy for understanding plant community properties and ecosystem structure. Ecosphere 15(7): e4907. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4907
Namdar, D., Mulder, P.P.J., Ben-Simchon, E., Hacham, Y., Basheer, L., Cohen, O., Sternberg, M., Shelef, O. (2024) New Analytical Approach to Quinolizidine Alkaloids and Their Assumed Biosynthesis Pathways in Lupin Seeds. Toxins 16: 163. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins16030163
Yang, X., Sternberg, M., Song, W., Zhong, S., Chai, H., Li, J., Yao, Y., Meng, B., You, M., Jiang, Q., Yue, X., Li, L.J., Ma, J. M., Sun, W. (2024) The responses of soil nitrogen transformations to rainfall reduction mainly occurred in the early growing-season in a temperate meadow. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 129, 6: e2023JG007749 https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007749
Smith, M.D., Wilkins, K.D., Holdrege, M.C., Wilfahrt, P., Collins, S.L., Knapp, A.K. ....Sternberg, M..…et al. (2024) Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (4), e2309881120 https://doi:10.1073/pnas.2309881120
Gupta, S.K., Ben-Dor, E.,Sternberg, M. (2024) Unveiling the Invasion: Advancing ecological mapping of Heterotheca subaxillaris through integrated remote sensing techniques with drones and satellites. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.
https://doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3374232
Gupta, S. K., Efrati, B., Amir, O., Francos, N., Sternberg, M., Ben-Dor, E. (2023)
Smartphone-based spectroscopy as a tool to estimate soil attributes for the citizen science concept.Smart Agricultural Technology 5:100327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2023.100327
Adar, S., Sternberg, M., Argaman, E., Henkin, Z., Dovrat, G., Zaady, E., Paz-Kagan, T. (2023) Testing a novel pasture quality index using remote sensing tools in semiarid and Mediterranean grasslands. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 357: 108674 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108674
DeMalach, N., Kigel, J., Sternberg, M. (2023) Contrasting dynamics of seed banks and standing vegetation of annuals and perennials along a rainfall gradient. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 58: 12571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2023.125718
Li, J., Zhang, T., Meng, B., Rudgers, J. A., Cui, N., Zhao, T., Chai, H., Yang, X., Sternberg, M., Sun, W. (2023) Disruption of fungal hyphae suppressed litter-derived C retention in soil and N translocation to plants under drought-stressed temperate grassland. Geoderma 432: 116396 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116396
Zhang, A., Chang, H., Liu, R., Sternberg, M. (2022) Shrub facilitative effects on the plant litter arthropod community shifts with decreasing precipitation in desertified ecosystems in northwestern China. Journal of Arid Environments 200: 104724.
Moshe, F. O. R., Sternberg, M. Ratner, T., Drori, I., Egozy, R. (2022) Customizing the Morphological Quality Index (MQI) to evaluate streams in Eastern-Mediterranean ecosystems. Environemntal Challenges 9: 100612
Adar, S., Sternberg, M., Paz-Kagan, T., Henkin, Z., Dovrat, G., Zaady, E., Argaman, E. (2022) Estimation of aboveground biomass production using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and VENμS satellite imagery in Mediterranean and semiarid rangelands. Remote sensing applications, 26, 100753. doi: 10.1016/j.rsase.2022.100753
Yang, T.X., Chen, J.D., Zhong, X.Y., Yang, X.C., Wang, G., Yao, Y., Sternberg, M., Sun W. (2022) Divergent responses of plant biomass and its allocation to the altered precipitation regimes among different degraded grasslands in China. Plant and Soil 473, 149–166 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-05029-1
Kozhoridze, G., Ben Dor, E., Sternberg, M. (2022) Assessing the Dynamics of Plant Species Invasion in Eastern-Mediterranean Coastal Dunes Using Cellular Automata Modeling and Satellite Time-Series Analyses. Remote Sensing 14(4):1014. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14041014
Kröel-Dulay, G., Mojzes, A., Szitár, K. …. Sternberg, M. et al. (2022) Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought. Nature, Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01685-3
Yang, T.X., Chen, J.D., Zhong, X.Y., Yang, X.C., Wang, G., Yao, Y., Sternberg, M., Sun W. (2021) Divergent responses of plant biomass and its allocation to the altered precipitation regimes among different degraded grasslands in China. Plant and Soil https://DOI:10.1007/s11104-021-05029-1
Kigel, J. Konsens, I., Segev, U. Sternberg, M. (2021) Temporal stability of biomass in annual plant communities is driven by species diversity and asynchrony, but not dominance. Journal of Vegetation Science 32:e13012,
Paz-Kagan, T., Chang, J. B., Shoshany, M., Sternberg, M., Karnieli, A. (2021) Assessment of plant species distribution and diversity along a climatic gradient from Mediterranean woodlands to semi-arid shrublands. GIScience & Remote Sensing 58: 929-953. DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2021.1953770
DeMalach, N., Kigel, J., Sternberg, M. (2021) The soil seed bank buffers long-term compositional changes in annual plant communities. Journal of Ecology 109:1275–1283 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.
Ruppert, J.C., Harmoney, K., Henkin, Z., Snyman, H.A., Sternberg, M., Willms, W., Linstädter, A. (2015) Quantifying drylands’ drought resistance and recovery: The importance of drought intensity, dominant life history and grazing regime. Global Change Biology 21: 1258-1270 – doi: 10.1111/gcb.12777
