SDG 13:
CLIMATE ACTION

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

University Impact Ranking for SDG 13
U of Haifa 0/100 

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Spatial and temporal variability of dryness characteristics in Turkey

By: Kutiel H., Türkeş M.
Published in: International Journal of Climatology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Drought may occur in almost every climatic region on Earth at any time. Understanding the nature and magnitude of the dr (more…)

The ecology and evolution of temperature-dependent reaction norms for sex determination in reptiles: a mechanistic conceptual model

By: Pezaro N., Doody J.S., Thompson M.B.
Published in: Biological Reviews
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Sex-determining mechanisms are broadly categorised as being based on either genetic or environmental factors. Vertebrate (more…)

Dust clouds, climate change and coins: consiliences of palaeoclimate and economy in the Late Antique southern Levant

By: Fuks D., Ackermann O., Ayalon A., Bar-Matthews M., Bar-Oz G., Levi Y., Maeir A.M., Weiss E., Zilberman T., Safrai Z.
Published in: Levant
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: The climate factor has become a focus of much historical and archaeological investigation, encouraged recently by improv (more…)

Increased sedimentation following the Neolithic Revolution in the Southern Levant

By: Lu Y., Waldmann N., Nadel D., Marco S.
Published in: Global and Planetary Change
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: The Dead Sea drainage basin offers a rare combination of well-documented substantial climate change, intense tectonics a (more…)

Recent changes and relations among drought, vegetation and wildfires in the Eastern Mediterranean: The case of Israel

By: Turco M., Levin N., Tessler N., Saaroni H.
Published in: Global and Planetary Change
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: On-going changes in drought, vegetation and wildfires in Israel provide a key example of possible future evolution in tr (more…)

Sedum-dominated green-roofs in a semi-arid region increase CO2 concentrations during the dry season

By: Agra H., Klein T., Vasl A., Shalom H., Kadas G., Blaustein L.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Green roofs are expected to absorb and store carbon in plants and soils and thereby reduce the high CO2 concentration le (more…)

Why Do Partisan Audiences Participate? Perceived Public Opinion as the Mediating Mechanism

By: Dvir-Gvirsman S., Garrett R.K., Tsfati Y.
Published in: Communication Research
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The bulk of current literature on partisan media explores its various detrimental influences on the democratic sphere. T (more…)

A glimpse of an ancient agricultural ecosystem based on remains of micromammals in the Byzantine Negev Desert

By: Fried T., Weissbrod L., Tepper Y., Bar-Oz G.
Published in: Royal Society Open Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: It is widely believed that Byzantine agriculture in the Negev Desert (fourth to seventh century Common Era; CE), with wi (more…)

Middle to Late Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer encampments at the Ashalim site, on a linear dune-like morphology, along dunefield margin water bodies

By: Vardi J., Marder O., Bookman R., Friesem D.E., Groman-Yeroslavski I., Edeltin L., Porat N., Boaretto E., Roskin J.
Published in: Quaternary International
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: This study presents distinct and small task-specific sites associated with the Middle to Late Epipalaeolithic period exp (more…)

Adaptive evolution of coagulation and blood properties in hypoxia tolerant Spalax in Israel

By: Danial-Farran N., Nasser N.J., Beiles A., Brenner B., Sarig G., Nevo E.
Published in: Journal of Zoology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: The subterranean blind mole rat (Spalax) is adapted to underground life stresses genomically, proteomically, and phenomi (more…)

Adaptive genetic differentiation and solar radiation in wild emmer wheat, triticum dicoccoides

By: Ren J., Chen L., Jin X., Yin X., Fu C., Nevo E., Peng J.
Published in: Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Background: Microgeographic studies of molecular markers could reveal the nature and dynamics of genetic diversity and t (more…)

Fire induced rock spalls as long-term traps for ash

By: Shtober-Zisu N., Brook A., Kopel D., Roberts D., Ichoku C., Wittenberg L.
Published in: Catena
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Severe fires accelerate rock weathering by spalling and exfoliation, creating abundant peels, flakes or spalls. In the f (more…)

Seasonal aggregations of sharks near coastal power plants in Israel: An emerging phenomenon

By: Barash A., Pickholtz R., Pickholtz E., Blaustein L., Rilov G.
Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea are at extremely high risk, and their populations are rapidly declining. In the Eastern (more…)

Comparison of various stochastic approaches for irrigation scheduling using seasonal climate forecasts

By: Jamal A., Linker R., Housh M.
Published in: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: This paper presents a modeling framework for real-time decision support for irrigation scheduling using probabilistic se (more…)

Leveraging organizational climate theory for understanding industry-academia collaboration

By: Sherman S., Hadar I., Luria G.
Published in: Information and Software Technology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Context: Industry-academia collaboration (IAC) in the field of software engineering is widely discussed in the literatur (more…)

Conservation planning under uncertainty in urban development and vegetation dynamics

By: Troupin D., Carmel Y.
Published in: PLoS ONE
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Systematic conservation planning is a framework for optimally locating and prioritizing areas for conservation. An often (more…)

Elevation patterns of plant diversity and recent altitudinal range shifts in Sinai’s high-mountain flora

By: Coals P., Shmida A., Vasl A., Duguny N.M., Gilbert F.
Published in: Journal of Vegetation Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Questions: Is there evidence of recent altitudinal range shifts in a hyper-arid Middle Eastern desert mountain flora? Ho (more…)

Early arrival at breeding grounds: Causes, costs and a trade-off with overwintering latitude

By: Rotics S., Kaatz M., Turjeman S., Zurell D., Wikelski M., Sapir N., Eggers U., Fiedler W., Jeltsch F., Nathan R.
Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Early arrival at breeding grounds is of prime importance for migrating birds as it is known to enhance breeding success. (more…)

Scientific Advice and Administrative Traditions: The Role of Chief Scientists in Climate Change Adaptation

By: Schmidt N.M., Teschner N., Negev M.
Published in: Review of Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The role of the chief scientist (CS), a key administrative position in various Israeli ministries, is to fund policy-ori (more…)

Green roof and photovoltaic panel integration: Effects on plant and arthropod diversity and electricity production

By: Schindler B.Y., Blaustein L., Lotan R., Shalom H., Kadas G.J., Seifan M.
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The combination of green roofs with photovoltaic (PV) panels has been proposed to provide synergistic benefits as the pa (more…)