{"id":4479,"date":"2018-11-07T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adssc.org\/en\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2024-04-11T20:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T18:49:36","slug":"ofir-katz-ph-decology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/ofir-katz-ph-decology\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz Ofir Ph.D<BR><BR><BR><h4>Ecology<\/h4>"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4479\" class=\"elementor elementor-4479\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7a52719e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default exad-glass-effect-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"7a52719e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-353792fd exad-glass-effect-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"353792fd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-179f0020 exad-sticky-section-no exad-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"179f0020\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Ofir Katz Ph.D<br \/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/\u05d0\u05d5\u05e4\u05d9\u05e8-\u05db\u05e5300-245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" \/><\/h3><p>Research Area:<br \/><b>Integrative and Desert Ecology Laboratory<\/b><\/p><div class=\"field-items\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3755\" src=\"https:\/\/adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/email.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ofir@adssc.org\">ofir@adssc.org<\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2925\" src=\"https:\/\/adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/googlescholar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.il\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=9zdVWacAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2985\" src=\"https:\/\/adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/researchgate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Ofir_Katz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ResearchGate<\/a><\/p><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-above\"><div class=\"field-label\"><h3><strong>Fields of interest<\/strong><\/h3><p>I study morphological and anatomical traits that contribute to plant adaptation to extreme environments, and especially the accumulation of silicon and other inorganic materials in plants. I am especially interested in the environmental factors that drive the magnitude and distribution of these traits and how these traits affect plant community and ecosystem properties and functioning. Other parts of my work deal with the evolutionary history of these traits as part of plant and ecosystem evolutionary history, and with the response of desert ecosystems to natural and human-made disturbances.<\/p><h3><strong>Group members<\/strong><\/h3><ul><li aria-level=\"1\">Tovale Solomon \u2013 Research associate, Lab manager<\/li><li aria-level=\"1\">Yaron Nitka-Nakash \u2013 Field technician<\/li><li aria-level=\"1\">Irene Blecher \u2013 Taxonomist<\/li><li aria-level=\"1\">Jinyu Ouyang \u2013 PhD Student (Placed in Germany)<\/li><\/ul><h3><strong>Current Projects<\/strong><\/h3><ul><li aria-level=\"1\">Biogeography of silicon contents in the flora of Israel and its relation to ecosystem functioning<br \/>Funding: Israel Science Foundation<br \/>CI: Marcelo Sternberg, TAU<\/li><li aria-level=\"1\">Silicon\u2019s effects on Norther Negev plants\u2019 responses to drought and grasshopper grazing<br \/>Funding: German Research Foundation<br \/>Co-PI: Joerg Schaller, ZALF (Germany)<\/li><li aria-level=\"1\">Ecological monitoring in the Ze\u2019eilm alluvial fan<br \/>Funding: Dead Sea Works<\/li><\/ul><h3><b>Coming soon<\/b><\/h3><p><i>Silicon in plants and ecosystems<\/i>, a new book form Oxford University Press.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-above\"><div class=\"field-label\"><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Publications:<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e459eeb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default exad-glass-effect-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"e459eeb\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cec4eac exad-glass-effect-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"cec4eac\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8744f0 exad-sticky-section-no exad-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f8744f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><script type=\"application\/javascript\">\n    window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(e) {\n        document.getElementById(\"facultyworks\").height = \"1000px\";\n    });\n    window.addEventListener(\"message\", function(e) {\n        if (e.origin.includes(\"faculty.works\") || e.origin.includes(\"localhost\") || e.origin.includes(\"127.0.0.1\")) {\n            if (e.data === \"scrollUp\") {\n                window.scrollTo({top: 0})\n                return\n            }\n            document.getElementById(\"facultyworks\").height = parseInt(e.data);\n        }\n    });\n<\/script><br \/><iframe id=\"facultyworks\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.works\/institutes\/dead.sea.html?personal=Ofir+Katz\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofir Katz Ph.D Research Area:Integrative and Desert Ecology Laboratory \u00a0ofir@adssc.org\u00a0Google Scholar\u00a0ResearchGate Fields of interest I study morphological and anatomical traits that contribute to plant adaptation to extreme environments, and especially the accumulation of silicon and other inorganic materials in plants. 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