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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SDG15 HIGHLIGHTS

Research

Discovering three hidden sketches beneath Modigliani’s “Nude with a Hat” at the University’s Hecht Museum

Public Engagements

“Flight to Hope” – The Swifts Project at the Herta and Paul Amir Technology Complex, City Campus, University of Haifa

Public Engagements

“Between Mount Carmel and the Sea” – seminar and exhibition of Bird collection from the Shimon Angers Nature Room, Kibbutz Ma’ayan Zvi

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Plastic Waste and the Dead Sea
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Long-term effects of wildfire on rock weathering and soil
stoniness in the Mediterranean landscapes

By: Shtober-Zisu N., Wittenberg L
Published in: Science of The Total Environment 762: 143125
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Rock fragments in soil and on the soil surface affect key soil hydrological processes, including water repellency, thermal (more…)

Wildfires as a Weathering Agent of Carbonate Rocks

By: Shtober-Zisu N., Wittenberg L.
Published in: Minerals 11(10), 1091
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: While most of the scientific effort regarding wildfires has predominantly focused on fire effects on vegetation and soils, (more…)

Can private land conservation reduce wildfire risk to homes? A case study in San Diego County, California, USA

By: Butsic V., Syphard A.D., Keeley J.E., Bar-Massada A.
Published in: Landscape and Urban Planning
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: The purchase of private land for conservation purposes is a common way to prevent the exploitation of sensitive ecologic (more…)

New perspectives on coastal landscape reconstruction during the Late Quaternary: A test case from central Israel

By: Shtienberg G., Dix J.K., Roskin J., Waldmann N., Bookman R., Bialik O.M., Porat N., Taha N., Sivan D.
Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: The stratigraphic architecture of coastal plains is determined by the interactions between local (e.g. fluvial processes (more…)

Development of polyculture and integrated multi – trophic aquaculture (IMTA) in Israel: A review

By: Neori A., Shpigel M., Guttman L., Israel A.
Published in: Israeli Journal of Aquaculture – Bamidgeh
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Israeli aquaculture began in the 1920s, with common carp monoculture. This was followed by polyculture of carp with tila (more…)

Assessing wildfire exposure in the Wildland-Urban Interface area of the mountains of central Argentina

By: Argañaraz J.P., Radeloff V.C., Bar-Massada A., Gavier-Pizarro G.I., Scavuzzo C.M., Bellis L.M.
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Wildfires are a major threat to people and property in Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) communities worldwide, but while t (more…)

Assessment of relation of land use characteristics with vector-borne diseases in tropical areas

By: Sheela A.M., Ghermandi A., Vineetha P., Sheeja R.V., Justus J., Ajayakrishna K.
Published in: Land Use Policy
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Land use and land cover changes play an important role in the occurrence of vector-borne diseases. It is highly essentia (more…)

The road to differentiated land use and domestic space in the middle pleistocene of southwestern Asia

By: Kuhn S.L., Shimelmitz R., Clark A.E.
Published in: Crossing the Human Threshold: Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places During the Middle Pleistocene
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
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Interbasin water transfer for the rehabilitation of a transboundary Mediterranean stream: An economic analysis

By: Akron A., Ghermandi A., Dayan T., Hershkovitz Y.
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Global demand for freshwater is increasing as human population grows, climate changes and water resources are being over (more…)

Ecological assessment of water quality in the Kabul River, Pakistan, using statistical methods

By: Khuram I., Barinova S., Ahmad N., Ullah A., DIn S.U., Jan S., Hamayun M.
Published in: Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: We identified 209 species of algae and cyanobacteria at 4 sites in the Kabul River. Green algae, diatoms, and charophyte (more…)

Fire impact on soil-water repellency and functioning of semi-arid croplands and rangelands: Implications for prescribed burnings and wildfires

By: Stavi I., Barkai D., Knoll Y.M., Glion H.A., Katra I., Brook A., Zaady E.
Published in: Geomorphology
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: An unintended fire outbreak during summer 2015 in the semi-arid Israeli Negev resulted in the burning of extensive cropl (more…)

Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk

By: Radeloff V.C., Helmers D.P., Anu Kramer H., Mockrin M.H., Alexandre P.M., Bar-Massada A., Butsic V., Hawbaker T.J., Martinuzzi S., Syphard A.D., Stewart S.I.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses and wildland vegetation meet or intermingle, and where wildf (more…)

Estuarine development and early Holocene transgression across an aeolianite substrate, Caesarea, central Israel

By: Goff J.A., Austin J.A., Jr., Goodman-Tchernov B.N.
Published in: Continental Shelf Research
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Estuaries are important features on the coastal landscape due to their potential for rich, diverse, and abundant resourc (more…)

Amplified environmental change: Evidence from land-use and climate change in medieval Minorca

By: Balbo A.L., Puy A., Frigola J., Retamero F., Cacho I., Kirchner H.
Published in: Land Degradation and Development
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The debate on human environmental impact has often been locked into cause–effect reasoning, aiming at factoring human im (more…)

Opportunism or aquatic specialization? Evidence of freshwater fish exploitation at ohalo II- a waterlogged upper paleolithic site

By: Zohar I., Dayan T., Goren M., Nadel D., Hershkovitz I.
Published in: PLoS ONE
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Analysis of ca. 17,000 fish remains recovered from the late Upper Paleolithic/early Epi-Paleolithic (LGM; 23,000 BP) wat (more…)

Biological invasions in conservation planning: A global systematic review

By: Mačic V., Albano P.G., Almpanidou V., Claudet J., Corrales X., Essl F., Evagelopoulos A., Giovos I., Jimenez C., Kark S., Marković O., Mazaris A.D., Ólafsdóttir F.Á., Panayotova M., Petović S., Rabitsch W., Ramdani M., Rilov G., Tricarico E., Fernández T.V., Sini M., Trygonis V., Katsanevakis S.
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Biological invasions threaten biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems, requiring substantial conse (more…)

Spectral data source effect on crop state estimation by vegetation indices

By: Polinova M., Jarmer T., Brook A.
Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Spectral vegetation indices (VIs) are a well-known and widely used method for crop state estimation. The ability to moni (more…)

Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean

By: Cramer W., Guiot J., Fader M., Garrabou J., Gattuso J.-P., Iglesias A., Lange M.A., Lionello P., Llasat M.C., Paz S., Peñuelas J., Snoussi M., Toreti A., Tsimplis M.N., Xoplaki E.
Published in: Nature Climate Change
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Recent accelerated climate change has exacerbated existing environmental problems in the Mediterranean Basin that are ca (more…)

The Lake CHAd Deep DRILLing project (CHADRILL) – targeting ~ 10 million years of environmental and climate change in Africa

By: Sylvestre F., Schuster M., Vogel H., Abdheramane M., Ariztegui D., Salzmann U., Schwalb A., Waldmann N., Adeaga O., Ahounta D., Izuchukwu M.A., Andossa L., Armitage S., Augustin L., Barboni D., Bard E., Berke M., Bouchez C., Bourlès D., Bristow C., Brown E., Campisano C., Chalié F., Clarke L., Contoux C., Couapel M., Delanghe D., Deschamps P., Doumnang J.-C., Flecker R., Harms U., Holmes J., Phillips R.I., Isseini M., Jouve G., Larrasoana J., Lebatard A.-E., Leroy S., Mahamoud Y., Moussa A., Nielson D., Nguetsop F., Njokuocha R.C., Noren A., Porat N., Chloé P., Schüler-Goldbach L., Tachikawa K., Thouveny N., Tutolo B., Verschuren D., Vidal L., Viehberg F.
Published in: Scientific Drilling
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: At present, Lake Chad ( ~13°0 N, ~14° E) is a shallow freshwater lake located in the Sahel/Sahara region of central nort (more…)

A crowdsourced valuation of recreational ecosystem services using social media data: An application to a tropical wetland in India

By: Sinclair M., Ghermandi A., Sheela A.M.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Online social media represent an extensive, opportunistic source of behavioral data and revealed preferences for ecosyst (more…)