| Expert Name | Mr. Moshe Shachak |
| Title | Desert Ecologist |
| Division | Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology |
| Institution | Ben Gurion University of the Negev |
| City | Sede Boqer |
| Country | Israel |
| Telephone | 972 7 659 6786 |
| Email | shachak(at)bgumail.bgu.ac.il |
| Work Experience | - I head a project sponsored by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), in cooperation with scientists from the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University, from the Agricultural Research Organization - Volcani Center in Bet Dagan and from the Soil Research Station - Ruppin Institute, Israel. The project was initiated in 1990. The aim of the program is to develop ecosystem management of drylands that were under long term human exploitation, based on integration of ecological understanding and application. The program concentrates on fostering development of ecological landscape management for increasing biotic productivity and diversity |
| Qualifications | Ph.D., Ecology, Hebrew University, 1976 |
| Number of Publications | 75 |
| Awards | - Adjunct Scientist at Institute of Ecosystem Studies, NY, USA
- Member of International Staff of the Ecology Institute, Olendorf, Germany |
| Other Activities | - Authority to Nature Conservation and national parks authority
- Advisor to the Jewish National Fund
- American Ecological Society
- International Landscape Society
- Israeli Ecological Society |
| Publications | 1. Shachak, M., and Lovett, G.M., 1998: Atmospheric deposition to a desert ecosystem and its implication for management. Ecological Applications 8: 455-463;
2. Shachak, M., Sachs, M., and Moshe, I., 1998: Ecosystem management of desertified shrublands in Israel. Ecosystems 1: 475-483;
3. Boeken, B., and Shachak, M., 1998: Colonization by annual plants of an experimentally altered desert landscape: sources-sink relationships. Journal of Ecology 86: 804-814;
4. Zaady, E., Groffman, P., and Shachak, M., 1998: Nitrogen fixation in macro and microphytic patches in the Negev desert. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 30: 449-454;
5. Hoekstra, T.W., and Shachak, M., (eds.) 1999: Arid Lands Management. Toward Ecological Sustainability. Illinois University Press. |
| Discipline | Natural Resource Management |
| Last updated | 09/05/2007 12:12:00 |
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