"Intraspecific variation in morphological traits affects dispersal and seedling emergence" published in American Journal of Botany Itamar Giladi Pamela Diggle mdde @KewScience #botany #plantecology doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1…

Isopodchory: Few invertebrates, other than ants, disperse seeds. Gavriella Shani, from the mdde bidrBGU discovered that the desert isopod ( Hemilepistus reaumuri) disperses the seeds of Iris petrana. Seeds were deposited outside the burrow. @yuval_sapir

Crepis sancta #OrganismOfTheWeek Efrat Dener a PhD student from Itamar Giladi lab, measuring #dispersal-related traits (e.g., seeds' falling velocities) of Crepis sancta, to study the effects of different #ecological factors and #evolutionary forces on seed dispersal strategies

A new publication by PhD student Gilad Ben Zvi, Merav Seifan and Itamar Giladi from the mdde on reduced seed #dispersal at range margins. Just published in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6…

How various #evolutionary and #ecological processes shape #seed #dispersal strategies in #plants, focusing on the effects of #pollen-source and habitat #fragmentation Mitrani #Zoom seminar by Efrat Dener from Itamar Giladi & Ofer Ovadia labs mdde Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Looking for an #MSc. student in #Ecology and #Conservation! 1) Tolerance of harvester #ants to extreme #climatic 🐜 2) Eco-#hydrology in hyper-#arid areas 💧🌱 The research is based at the Sede-Boqer campus mdde of אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב Itamar Giladi DSASC #ramoncrater

I saw this news item on “Australia’s sheep left without shearers as Covid halts travel from New Zealand” that appeared in the Guradian., leaving million of sheep with their full coat. All I could think of is "how it will affect ‘ectozoochory’ in Australian rangelands.

Habitat fragmentation affects #seed dispersal differently across traits and scales. The final paper produced from my #postdoc appointment in #Israel is out. The intensive fieldwork was done in the Southern Judean Lowlands. Itamar Giladi doi.org/10.1016/j.agee…

Dear all, I offer one #PhD and one #postdoc positions to work on a project looking at levels of #intraspecific #variation in #dispersal #traits, their sources and consequences (see attached file for details). If you are interested, contact me. Please RT Thanks, Itamar Giladi

Great honour and opportunity to give a keynote talk on recent work about the broad-scale seed dispersal distance at seedecol7 in Gijón, Spain. The conference is well organised and idea-triggering.