Yagil Osem - Agri



Yagil Osem

Department of natural resources

Institute of Plant Sciences

Agricultural Research Organization

Volcani Center

Bet-Dagan, Israel

Telephone: 972-3-9683727, Fax: 972-3-9669642, email: yagil@.il

University Education and Additional Training

|1992 – 1995 |B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences, Soil and Water Sciences, |

| |Program studies: Environmental Quality Sciences, |

| |at The Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of |

| |Jerusalem |

|1995 – 2002 |Ph.D. in Agricultural sciences, at the Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty |

| |of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (direct Ph.D|

| |course) |

| |Title of thesis: “Community structure of annual plants in a semi-arid Shrub-land (Northern Negev): |

| |Changes and trends in the seed-bank and in the vegetation due to protection from grazing, in contrasting |

| |habitats differing in resources availability" |

| |Supervision by: Prof. Jaime Kigel and Dr. Avi Perevolotsky |

|2002 – 2004 |Postdoctoral position at the department of Soil and Water Sciences Faculty of Agricultural, Food and |

| |Environmental Quality Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. With Prof. Yona Chen and Prof. |

| |Yitshac Hadar |

| |Research subject: "Plant roots as a support medium for attached |

| |growth in aerated reactors for waste water treatment: Effects on |

| |microbial community structure" |

|2004 – 2005 |Postdoctoral position at the Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of |

| |Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. With Prof. |

| |Jaime Kigel |

| |Research subject: "The role of dwarf shrubs in structuring annual plant communities in grazed semiarid |

| |shrublands" |

|2005 - 2006 |Postdoctoral position at the Department of Natural Resources, Institute of Plant Sciences, the Volcani |

| |Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan. With Dr. Nir Atzmon |

| |Research subject: "Natural regeneration of coniferous forests in the Mediterranean zone of Israel" |

Positions Held and Academic Status

|10/2006 to date |Research Scientist at the ARO, the Volcani Center, Institute of Plant Sciences, the Department of |

| |Natural Resources |

List of Publications

1. Osem, Y., Sternberg, M., Perevolotsky, A. and Kigel, J. (1999). Species composition and abundance of annual plants in the seed-bank and in the vegetation in a semiarid region in the northern Negev as affrcted by seep grazing. Ecology and Environment 5: 180-189. (Hebrew, English abstract)

2. Osem, Y., Perevolotsky, A. and Kigel, J., (2002). Grazing effect on diversity of annual plant communities in a semi-arid rangeland: Interactions with small-scale spatial and temporal variation in primary productivity. Journal of Ecology 90:936-946.

3. Osem, Y., Perevolotsky, A. and Kigel, J., (2004). Site productivity and plant size, explain the response of annual species to grazing exclusion in a Mediterranean semi-arid rangeland.

Journal of Ecology 92:297-309.

4. Kigel, J., Osem, Y. and Perevolotsky, A. (2004). Similarity between seed-bank and ensuing vegetation is productivity dependent in a semi-arid Mediterranean annual plant community. In: Ecology, conservation and management of Mediterranean climate ecosystems. Ed. By M. Arianoutsou and V. Papanastasis.

5. Osem, Y., Atzmon, N. and Perevolotsky, A. (2005). Sustainable Forest Management – What is it? A review. Forest 7: 3-9. (Hebrew, English abstract).

6. Osem. Y., Perevolotsky, A. and Kigel, J., (2006). Similarity between seed bank and vegetation in a semiarid annual plant community: The role of productivity and grazing. Journal of Vegetation Science 17: 29-36.

7. Osem, Y., Perevolotsky, A. and Kigel, J., (2006). Size traits and site condition determined changes in seed bank structure caused by grazing exclusion in semiarid annual plant communities.

Ecography 29: 11-20.

8. Osem, Y., Chen, Y., Levinson, D. and Hadar, Y., (2007). The effects of plant roots on microbial community structure in aerated wastewater-treatment reactors.

Ecological Engineering 29: 133-142.

9. Osem, Y., Perevolotsky, A. and Kigel, J., (2007). Interactive effects of grazing and shrubs on the annual plant community in semi-arid Mediterranean shrublands. Journal of Vegetation Science 18: 869-878.

10. Osem, Y., Ginsberg, P., Tauber, I. Atzmon, N. and Perevolotsky, A. (2008) Sustainable management of Mediterranean planted coniferous forests: an Israeli definition. Journal of Forestry 106: 38-46.

11. Osem, Y., Konsens, I., Perevolotsky, A. and Kigel, J. (2008) Soil seed bank and seedling emergence of Sarcopoterium spinosum as affected by grazing in a patchy semiarid shrubland. Israel journal of plant sciences 55: 35-43.

12. Osem, Y., Zangy, E., Bney-Moshe, E., Moshe, Y., Karni, N., Nisan, Y. (2009) The potential of transforming simple structured pine plantations into mixed Mediterranean forests through natural regeneration along a rainfall gradient. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 14-23.

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