Gil Ben-Natan

Office:    Kibbutz Ein-Gedi, mobile post Dead-Sea 86980, Israel

eMail:     gil.bennatan@gmail.com

Phone:    972-8-6594755

Fax:        972-8-6584377

Cell:        052-6434848

Research Interests

·                    Ecosystem ecology

·                    Understanding complexity in ecology

·                    Modeling ecological processes

·                    Long term ecological research and monitoring

·                    Science education

Current Research

·                    Climate trends effect on vegetation patterns in the Arava

·                    Possible ecological outcomes of the Red Sea-Dead Sea Conduit

·                    Ecological thinking of high-school students

·                    Long term ecological research (LTER)

·                    Biotic and abiotic aspects regulating temporary aquatic fauna.

·                    Linking gene expression to environmental heterogeneity

Selected Publications

Ben-Natan G., Z. Abramsky, B.P. Kotler and J.S. Brown . 2004. Seeds redistribution in sand dunes: a basis for coexistence of two rodent species. Oikos 105:325-335

Courses

Issues in Desert Ecology