| Expert Name | Mr. David Saltz |
| Title | Senior Lecturer |
| Division | Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology |
| Institution | Ben Gurion University of the Negev |
| City | Sede Boqer |
| Country | Israel |
| Telephone | 972 7 659 6778 |
| Email | dsaltz(at)bgumail.bgu.ac.il |
| Work Experience | 1. Coordinator of reintroduction of ungulates for Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority. Responsibilities include planning and executing the reintroduction and post-release research on Asiatic wild ass, Mesopotamian fallow deer, Arabian Oryx and roe deer.
2. Game ranching project in Namibia
3. Studying wolf dynamics in Northern Israel
4. The impact of ecotourism on ibex in the Negev highlands
5. The impact of fragmentation and human encroachment on gazelles in the coastal plains of Israel
6. Genotype x Environment interactions in desert lilies subject to gazelle herbivory
7. Studying and modeling the dynamics of a declining mountain gazelle population in northern Israel |
| Qualifications | Ph.D., Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, 1988 |
| Number of Publications | 34 |
| Awards | |
| Other Activities | - Wildlife Society, Conservation Biology Society, American Society of Naturalists
- Science Division, Nature and National Parks Protection Authority |
| Publications | 1. Saltz, D., Rowen, M., and Rubenstein, D.I., 2000: The impacts of space use patterns of reintroduced Asiatic wild ass on effective population size Conservation Biology: in press;
2. Saltz, D., 1998: A long term systematic approach to reintroduction: The Persian fallow deer and Arabian oryx in Israel. Animal Conservation: 1:245-252;
3. Saltz., D., White, G.C., and Bartmann, 1995: Assessing animal condition nutrition, and stress, from urine in snow. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 23:694-698;
4. Saltz, D., and Rubenstein, 1995: Population dynamics of a reintroduced Asiatic wild-ass (Equus Hemionus) herd. Ecological Applications. 5:327-335;
5. Saltz, D., Shachak, M., Caldwell, M., S.T.A., Picket, H., Tsoar, J., Dawson, Yom Tov, Y., Weltz., M., and Farrow, R., 1999: The study and management of dryland population systems. Pp. 75-96 in Hoekstra, T.W., and M., Shachak (Eds.) Arid Lands Management - Towards Ecological Sustainability. University of Illinois Press. |
| Discipline | Animal Science |
| Last updated | 09/05/2007 12:11:00 |
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