IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Imanuel Noy-Meir

Imanuel_Noy-Meir

1941 - 2009

Personal:

Date of Birth - February 2, 1941
1941 - Born in Colonia Avigdor, Entre Rios, Argentina
1950 - Arrived in Israel
1959-1961 - Military Service

University Degrees:

1961-1965 - B.Sc in Biology (Botany, Biochemistry) Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI)
1964-1966 - M.Sc in Botany (Plant Physiology) HUJI
1967-1970 - Ph.D in Biogeography (Quantitative Ecology) Australian National University Canaberra, Australia 

Research and Professional Experience:

1970-1973 - Lecturer, Botany Department, HUJI
1973-1976 - Senior Lecturer, Botany Department, HUJI
1976-1979 - Associate Professor, HUJI
1979-1997 - Professor, Plant Ecology, HUJI (Dept. Evolution, Systematics and Ecology)
1997- 2007 - Professor, Plant Ecology, HUJI (Dept. of Agricultural Botany, Robert Smith Institute of Plant Sciences).
2007 Retired

Other Activities:

1972 - Visiting Scientist, IBP Desert BIome, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
1976 - Visiting Scientist, Theoretical Production Ecology, Agricultural University, Wageningen, Netherlands
1976-1977 - Senior Research Fellow, Enviromental Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
1979-1981 - Chairman, Botanical Studies, HUJI
1982-1984 - Chairman, Enviromental Studies, HUJI
1989-1990 - Chairman, Scientific Comittee for Mt. Carmel Restoration and Fire Prevention 
1989-1990 - Director, Golan Research Institute, Qazrin
1994 - Visiting Scientist, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
1994 - 1995 - Visiting Scientist, Ecosystems Dynamics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
1998 - 2000 - Member of Board of Directors, Israel Authority of Nature Conservation and National Parks.
2005 - 2008 Guest Scientist, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Córdoba, Argentina

Teaching: 

1. Integrated Management of Open Land: 3rd year graduate course at the Faculty of Agriculture for Plant Science students specializing in Nature Conservation and Land Management.

2. Quantitative Methods in Marine Biology (with Dr Amatzia Genin): Post-graduate course at the Inter-University Marine Institute in Eilat.

3. Mathematical Models in Ecology: Post-graduate course, CENPAT Puerto Madryn and Universidad del Comahue, Bariloche.

Research Interests:

Effects of Grazing, Fire and other Disturbances on Grassland Vegetation
Dynamics and Modelling of Grazing Systems and of Vegetation Dynamics
Management of Plant Communities in Conservation Areas
Ecology and Conservation of Populations of Wild Plants
Additional Keywords: plant ecology, population ecology, community ecology 

Research Projects:

1. Dynamics of the Mediterranean vegetation mosaic: modelling across spatial scales. Israel Scientific Foundation grant 625/05. 2005-2009. 

2. Conservation of rare and threatened climber species of the Pampean Sierras: an integrated approach. Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation. 2008-2009.

Publications:

Papers in Scientific Journals

Noy-Meir, I. 1973. Desert ecosystems. I. Environment and producers. Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics 4, 25-52.

Noy-Meir, I. 1974. Desert ecosystems. II. Higher trophic levels. Annual Review of Ecology and systematics 5, 195-214.

Noy-Meir, I. 1975. Stability of grazing systems: an application of predator-prey graphs. Journal of Ecology 63, 459-481.

Noy-Meir, I., Walker, D. & Williams, W.T. 1975. Data transformations in ecological ordination. II. On the meaning of data standardization. Journal of Ecology 63, 779-800.

Noy-Meir, I. & Whittaker, R.H. 1977. Continuous multivariate methods in community analysis: some problems and developments. Vegetatio 33, 79-98.

Noy-Meir, I. 1978. Grazing and production in seasonal pastures: analysis of a simple model. Journal of Applied Ecology 15, 809-835.

Noy-Meir, I. 1981. Theoretical dynamics of competitiors under predation. Oecologia (Berlin) 50, 277-284.

Ungar, E.D. and Noy-Meir, I. 1988. Herbage intake in relation to availability and sward structure: grazing processes and optimal foraging. Journal of Applied Ecology 25, 1045-1082.

Noy-Meir, I., Gutman, M. and Kaplan, Y. 1989. Responses of Mediterranean grassland plants to grazing and protection. Journal of Ecology 77, 290-310.

Westoby, M., Walker, B. and Noy-Meir, I. 1989. Opportunistic range management for rangelands not at equilibrium. Journal of Range Management 42, 265-273.

Noy-Meir, I. 1995. Interactive effects of fire and grazing on structure and diversity of Mediterranean grasslands. Journal of Vegetation Science 6, 701-710.

Noy-Meir, I. & Briske, D.D. 1996. Fitness components of grazing-induced population reduction in a dominant annual, Triticum dicoccoides (wild wheat). Journal of Ecology 84, 439-448.

Henkin, Z., Noy-Meir, I., Kafkafi, U., Gutman, M. & Seligman, N. 1996. Phosphate fertilization primes production of rangeland on brown rendzina soil in the Galilee, Israel. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 59, 43-53.

Henkin, Z., Seligman, N.G., Kafkafi, U. & Noy-Meir, I. 1998. 'Effective growing days': a simple predictive model of the response of herbaceous plant growth in a Mediterranean ecosystem to variation in rainfall and phosphorus availability. Journal of Ecology 86, 137-148.

Henkin, Z., Seligman, N. G., Noy-Meir, I.,Kafkafi, U. & Gutman, M. 1998. Rehabilitation of Mediterranean dwarf-shrub rangeland with herbicides, fertilizers and fire. Journal of Range Management 51, 193-199.

Nathan, R., Safriel, U.N., Noy-Meir, I. & Schiller, G. 1999, Seed release without fire in Pinus halepensis, a Mediterranean serotinous wind-dispersed tree. Journal of Ecology 87, 659-669.

Henkin, Z., Seligman, N.G., Noy-Meir, I. & Kafkafi, U. 1999. Secondary succession after fire in a Mediterranean dwarf-shrub community. Journal of Vegetation Science 10, 503-514.

Henkin, Z., Seligman, N.G., Noy-Meir, I. & Kafkafi, U. 1999. Secondary succession after fire in a Mediterranean dwarf-shrub community. Journal of Vegetation Science 10, 503-514.

Hadar, L., Noy-Meir, I. & Perevolotsky, A. 1999. The effect of shrub clearing and grazing on the composition of a Mediterranean plant community: functional groups versus species. Journal of Vegetation Science 10, 673-682.

Noy-Meir, I. 2001. Ecology of wild emmer wheat in Mediterranean grasslands in Galilee. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 49, S-43-52.

Díaz, S., Noy-Meir, I. & Cabido, M. 2001. Can grazing response of herbaceous plants be predicted from simple vegetative traits? Journal of Applied Ecology 38,497-508.

Noy-Meir, I. & Oron, T. 2001. Effects of grazing on geophytes in Mediterranean vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science 12, 749-760.

Sérsic, A. N., Mascó, M.& Noy-Meir, I. 2001. Natural hybridization between species of Calceolaria with different pollination syndromes in southern Patagonia, Argentina. Plant Systematics & Evolution 230, 111-124.

Noy-Meir, I. & Briske, D. D. 2002. Response of wild wheat populations to grazing in Mediterranean grasslands: the relative influence of defoliation, competition, mulch and genotype. Journal of Applied Ecology 39, 259-278.

Rebollo, S., Milchunas, D. G., Noy-Meir, I. & Chapman, P. L. 2002. The role of a spiny plant refuge in structuring grazed shortgrass steppe communities. Oikos 98, 53-64.

Milchunas, D. G. & Noy-Meir, I. 2002. Grazing refuges, external avoidance of herbivory and plant diversity. Oikos 99, 113-130.

Noy-Meir I. & Kaplan, D. 2002. Species richness of annual legumes in relation to grazing in Mediterranean vegetation in northern Israel. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 50, S95-S109.

Mascó, M., Noy-Meir, I. & Sérsic, A. 2004. Geographic variation in flower color patterns within Calceolaria uniflora Lam. in Southern Patagonia. Plant Systematics & Evolution 244, 77-91.

Cingolani, A., Noy-Meir, I, & Díaz, S. 2005. Grazing effects on rangeland diversity: a synthesis of contemporary models. Ecological Applications 15, 757-773.

Rebollo, S., Milchunas, D. G. & Noy-Meir, I. 2005. Refuge effects of a cactus in grazed short-grass steppe. Journal of Vegetation Science 16, 85-92.

Lavi, A., Perevolotsky, A., Kigel, J. & Noy-Meir, I. 2005. Invasion of Pinus halepensis from plantations into adjacent natural habitats. Applied Vegetation Science 8, 85-92.

Henkin, Z., Sternberg, M., Seligman, N. G. & Noy-Meir, I. 2006. Species richness in relation to phosphorus and competition in a Mediterranean dwarf-shrub community. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 113, 277–283.

Henkin, Z., Hadar, L. & Noy-Meir, I. 2007. Human-scale structural heterogeneity induced by grazing in a Mediterranean woodland landscape. Landscape Ecology 22, 577-587.

Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., McIntyre, S., Falczuk, V., Casanoves, F., Milchunas, D., Skarpe, G., Sternberg, M., Noy-Meir, I., Landsberg, J., Zhang, W., Clark, H. & Campbell, B. 2007. Plant trait responses to grazing – a global synthesis. Global Change Biology 13, 313-341.

Henkin, Z., Seligman, N. G. and Noy-Meir, I. 2007. Successional transitions and management of a phosphorus-limited shrubland ecosystem. Journal of Rangeland Ecology and Management 80, 453-463.

Shitzer, D., Noy-Meir, I. and Milchunas, D. G. 2008. The role of geologic grazing refuges in structuring Mediterranean grassland plant communities. Plant Ecology 198, 135-147.

Kark, S., Hadany, L., Tabarroni, C., Safriel, U., Noy-Meir, I., Eldredge, N. Tabarroni, C.& Randi, E. 2008. How does genetic diversity change towards the range periphery? An empirical and theoretical test. Evolutionary Ecology Research 10, 391-414.

Cingolani, A., Noy-Meir, I.,Renison, D. & Cabido, M. 2008. ¿Es la ganadería extensiva compatible con la conservación de la biodiversidad y los suelos? Ecología Austral (accepted).

Books

Evenari, M., Noy-Meir, I., & Goodall, D.W. (editors) 1985. Hot Deserts and Arid Shrublands, A. (Ecosystems of the World 12A). Elsevier, Amsterdam, 365 pp.

Evenari, M., Noy-Meir, I., & Goodall, D.W. (editors) 1986. Hot deserts and Arid Shrublands, B. (Ecosystems of the World 12B). Elsevier, Amsterdam, 451 pp.

Chapters in Scientific Books

Noy-Meir, I. 1996. The spatial dimensions of plant-herbivore interactions. In: Rangelands in a sustainable biosphere (ed. N.E. West) Proc. 5th International Rangeland Congress, Society for Range Management, Denver, 152-154.

Henkin, Z., Seligman, N.G. and Noy-Meir, I. 1999. Suppression of shrub encroachment in a typical Mediterranean Sarcopoterium spinosum community. In: People and Rangelands: Building the Future (eds. D. Eldridge & D. Freudenberger). Proceedings 7th International Rangeland Congress, Townsville, Vol. 1, 294-295.

Gutman, M., Henkin, Z., Holzer, Z., Noy-Meir, I. and Seligman, N.G. 1999. A case study of beef cattle grazing in a Mediterranean-type woodland. In: People and Rangelands: Building the Future (eds. D. Eldridge & D. Freudenberger). Proceedings 7th International Rangeland Congress, Townsville, Vol. 1, 521-522.

Noy-Meir, I. & Sternberg, M. 1999. Grazing and fire response, and plant functional types in Mediterranean grasslands. In: People and Rangelands: Building the Future (eds. D. Eldridge & D. Freudenberger). Proceedings 7th International Rangeland Congress, Townsville, Vol. 2, 916-921.

Oliva, G., Noy-Meir, I. & Cibils, A. 2001. Fundamentos de ecología de pastizales. In: Ganadería ovina sustentable en la Patagonia Austral. Tecnología de manejo extensivo (eds. P. Borelli & G. Oliva). INTA EEA Río Gallegos. p.83-100.

Koniak, G. & Noy-Meir, I. 2005. An approach to modelling vegetation dynamics and multiple benefits, in response to land management. In: Modelling, Simulation and Optimization (Ed. G. Tonella). Proceedings 5^th IASTED International Conference, Oranjestad, Aruba. ACTA Press, Anaheim, CA. ISBN:0-88986-524-8. pp. 273-278.