Riparian zones are habitats of critical conservation concern worldwide, as they are known to
filter agricultural contaminants, buffer landscapes against erosion, and provide habitat for …

Biodiversity differentiation and the relative importance of forces and causes driving evolution
at the molecular and organismal levels require more critical testing. The opposite slopes of …

This study has investigated the effect of south-and north-facing hillslopes (SFS and NFS,
respectively) on soil and vegetation properties along a climatic transect that covers four …

Rivers in the Eastern Mediterranean, Israel in particular, are small and located mostly in the
coastal plane. In the first step of ecosystem assessment, 671 species of algae and …

Complex of microfungi colonizing mineral building materials, ie limestone and plaster, in
interiors of cultural heritage was characterized. Wide-scale investigation was carried out with …

The enigma of genetic diversity and genome organization and evolution in nature has been
investigated in plants and animals at the Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel …

Solar radiation, which influences temperature and hydroperiod, should strongly influence
colonization, development rate, development strategies and survival in temporary pools. We …

Species diversity of epilithic cyanobacteria was studied in a 90 m deep prehistoric el-Wad
cave eroded in Cenomanian limestones of Mount Carmel, Israel. The degree of illumination …

Abstract The “Evolution Canyon”(EC) microsite model unfolds active evolution across life. It
highlights biodiversity evolution, ecological sympatric speciation (SS) with gene flow, global …

Climatic impact on algal communities is analyzed by comparing two unpolluted river
ecosystems, the Oren River of Mediterranean zone, Northern Israel and Zin River of the …