SDG 15:
LIFE ON LAND

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

University Impact Ranking for SDG 15
U of Haifa 0/100 

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34.1
48.4
65.4
82.5
97.4

SDG15 Highlights

Public Engagements

Between Mount Carmel and the Sea – Bird collection from Kibbutz Ma’ayan Zvi exhibited at Library’s Windows

Public Engagements

Flight to Hope – The Swifts Project at the City Campus, University of Haifa
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Private Land Conservation - General Framework

Research

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Private Land Conservation: Measuring the economic cost and worth of TiME sites
Tropical trees, diversity, Brazilian plants, Southern Brazil

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Moisture, density-dependent interactions, and tropical tree diversity – research published in Nature
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Soil Type Impacts Macrohabitat Selection and Spatiotemporal Activity Patterns of Testudo graeca in an Eastern Mediterranean Ecosystem

By: Bernheim M., Shanas U., Bar-Massada A.
Published in: Copeia
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Habitat preference is determined by complex interactions between biotic and abiotic habitat features and species-specifi (more…)

Large birds travel farther in homogeneous environments

By: Tucker M.A., Alexandrou O., Bierregaard R.O., Jr., Bildstein K.L., Böhning-Gaese K., Bracis C., Brzorad J.N., Buechley E.R., Cabot D., Calabrese J.M., Carrapato C., Chiaradia A., Davenport L.C., Davidson S.C., Desholm M., DeSorbo C.R., Domenech R., Enggist P., Fagan W.F., Farwig N., Fiedler W., Fleming C.H., Franke A., Fryxell J.M., García-Ripollés C., Grémillet D., Griffin L.R., Harel R., Kane A., Kays R., Kleyheeg E., Lacy A.E., LaPoint S., Limiñana R., López-López P., Maccarone A.D., Mellone U., Mojica E.K., Nathan R., Newman S.H., Noonan M.J., Oppel S., Prostor M., Rees E.C., Ropert-Coudert Y., Rösner S., Sapir N., Schabo D., Schmidt M., Schulz H., Shariati M., Shreading A., Paulo Silva J., Skov H., Spiegel O., Takekawa J.Y., Teitelbaum C.S., van Toor M.L., Urios V., Vidal-Mateo J., Wang Q., Watts B.D., Wikelski M., Wolter K., Žydelis R., Mueller T.
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Aim: Animal movement is an important determinant of individual survival, population dynamics and ecosystem structure and (more…)

Environmental effects on flying migrants revealed by radar

By: Becciu P., Menz M.H.M., Aurbach A., Cabrera-Cruz S.A., Wainwright C.E., Scacco M., Ciach M., Pettersson L.B., Maggini I., Arroyo G.M., Buler J.J., Reynolds D.R., Sapir N.
Published in: Ecography
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Migratory animals are affected by various factors during their journeys, and the study of animal movement by radars has (more…)

Social media-based analysis of cultural ecosystem services and heritage tourism in a coastal region of Mexico

By: Ghermandi A., Camacho-Valdez V., Trejo-Espinosa H.
Published in: Tourism Management
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Understanding spatial patterns of visitation and benefits accrued to different types of natural and cultural heritage to (more…)

What feeds shelf-edge clinoforms over margins deprived of adjacent land sources? An example from southeastern Brazil

By: Schattner U., José Lobo F., López-Quirós A., dos Passos Nascimento J.L., de Mahiques M.M.
Published in: Basin Research
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: In southeastern Brazil, the Serra do Mar coastal mountain range blocks the sediment influx from arriving at a ca. 1,500  (more…)

Relationships among breeding site characteristics and adult population size of the fire salamander, Salamandra infraimmaculata

By: Sinai I., Segev O., Koplovich A., Templeton A.R., Blaustein L., Blank L.
Published in: Hydrobiologia
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Effective amphibian conservation requires knowledge of both the aquatic and terrestrial phases of life. As extinction pr (more…)

Light and primary production shape bacterial activity and community composition of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in a microcosm experiment

By: Piwosz K., Vrdoljak A., Frenken T., González-Olalla J.M., Šantić D., McKay R.M., Spilling K., Guttman L., Znachor P., Mujakić I., Fecskeová L.K., Zoccarato L., Hanusová M., Pessina A., Reich T., Grossart H.-P., Koblížek M.
Published in: mSphere
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Phytoplankton is a key component of aquatic microbial communities, and metabolic coupling between phytoplankton and bact (more…)

Diversity and ecological characteristic of algae and cyanobacteria of thermokarst lakes in Yakutia (northeastern Russia)

By: Kopyrina L., Pshennikova E., Barinova S.
Published in: Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: A total of 437 species (453 with infraspecific taxa) of algae and Cyanobacteria were identified in 2034 samples collecte (more…)

Slope retreat rates estimated from chronology of tufa deposits sheltered by inland notches on Mt. Carmel, Israel

By: Shtober-Zisu N., Vaks A., Korngreen D., Frumkin A.
Published in: Geomorphology
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Inland notches are elongated half tube indentations that develop on the carbonate rocky cliffs of mountainous zones. Occ (more…)

Evolution of rapid blue-light response linked to explosive diversification of ferns in angiosperm forests

By: Cai S., Huang Y., Chen F., Zhang X., Sessa E., Zhao C., Marchant D.B., Xue D., Chen G., Dai F., Leebens-Mack J.H., Zhang G., Shabala S., Christie J.M., Blatt M.R., Nevo E., Soltis P.S., Soltis D.E., Franks P.J., Wu F., Chen Z.-H.
Published in: New Phytologist
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Ferns appear in the fossil record some 200 Myr before angiosperms. However, as angiosperm-dominated forest canopies emer (more…)

Assessment of river-sea interaction in the danube nearshore area (Ukraine) by bioindicators and statistical mapping

By: Snigirova A., Bogatova Y., Barinova S.
Published in: Land
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: There is a lack of understanding of the main drivers that form the picture of biological communities of transitional wat (more…)

Direct and indirect valuation of air-quality regulation service as reflected in the preferences towards distinct types of landscape in a biosphere reserve

By: Raviv O., Tchetchik A., Lotan A., Izhaki I., Zemah Shamir S.
Published in: Ecological Economics
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Air-quality regulation was recently judged to be the most important ecosystem service (ES) provided by open landscape in (more…)

The early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site at Nesher-Ramla Quarry, Israel

By: Ullman M., Brailovsky L., Schechter H.C., Weissbrod L., Zuckerman-Cooper R., Toffolo M.B., Caracuta V., Boaretto E., Weiner S., Abramov J., Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., Avrutis V.W., Kol-Ya’kov S., Frumkin A.
Published in: Quaternary International
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Routine quarrying activity at the Nesher-Ramla Quarry, in the Judean Lowlands, Israel, has recently exposed a new Early (more…)

Two new species of yellow-tailed Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from rocky outcrops on the Telangana Plateau, India

By: Lajmi A., Giri V.B., Singh T., Agarwal I.
Published in: Zootaxa
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Two distinct species of the gekkonid genus Hemidactylus are described from the dry zone of peninsular India from the sta (more…)

Diachronic trends in occupation intensity of the Epipaleolithic site of Neve David (Mount Carmel, Israel): A lithic perspective

By: Liu C., Shimelmitz R., Friesem D.E., Yeshurun R., Nadel D.
Published in: Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The shift from mobile hunting-gathering lifeways to sedentism has been frequently studied, and the Natufian culture is c (more…)

From peaks to ports: Insights into tin provenance, production, and distribution from adapted applications of lead isotopic analysis of the Uluburun tin ingots

By: Powell W., Johnson M., Pulak C., Yener K.A., Mathur R., Bankoff H.A., Godfrey L., Price M., Galili E.
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Lead isotope analysis (LIA) can be applied to tin provenance studies when both the U–Th–Pb characteristics of cassiterit (more…)

Societal benefits of river restoration – Implications from social media analysis

By: Kaiser N.N., Ghermandi A., Feld C.K., Hershkovitz Y., Palt M., Stoll S.
Published in: Ecosystem Services
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: The success of river restoration projects regarding its effects on cultural ecosystem services (CES) and contributions t (more…)

The effect of wildfire and land-cover changes on the economic value of ecosystem services in Mount Carmel Biosphere Reserve, Israel

By: Orna R., Shiri Z.-S., Ido I., Alon L.
Published in: Ecosystem Services
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: The contribution of ecosystem services (ES) to human wellbeing relies on the ecosystem’s ability to supply ES. Managing (more…)

Comparative Study of Intestinal Microbiota Composition of Six Edible Fish Species

By: Ofek T., Lalzar M., Laviad-Shitrit S., Izhaki I., Halpern M.
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Intensive freshwater aquaculture in the Spring Valley, Israel, is implemented mainly in earthen fishponds and reservoirs (more…)

Identifying barriers for nature-based solutions in flood risk management: An interdisciplinary overview using expert community approach

By: Raška P., Bezak N., Ferreira C.S.S., Kalantari Z., Banasik K., Bertola M., Bourke M., Cerdà A., Davids P., Madruga de Brito M., Evans R., Finger D.C., Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir R., Housh M., Hysa A., Jakubínský J., Solomun M.K., Kaufmann M., Keesstra S., Keles E., Kohnová S., Pezzagno M., Potočki K., Rufat S., Seifollahi-Aghmiuni S., Schindelegger A., Šraj M., Stankunavicius G., Stolte J., Stričević R., Szolgay J., Zupanc V., Slavíková L., Hartmann T.
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2022 |  Link
Description: The major event that hit Europe in summer 2021 reminds society that floods are recurrent and among the costliest and dea (more…)