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

Flight to Hope – The Swifts Project at the City Campus, University of Haifa
TiME 2023 Annual Report Biodiversity This is My Earth

Public Engagements

This is My Earth (TiME) 2023 Annual Report: Protecting Biodiversity and Educating the Next Generation of Conservationists
Tropical trees, diversity, Brazilian plants, Southern Brazil

Research

Moisture, density-dependent interactions, and tropical tree diversity – research published in Nature
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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…)

Development and current state of seawater shrimp farming, with an emphasis on integrated multi-trophic pond aquaculture farms, in China – a review

By: Chang Z.-Q., Neori A., He Y.-Y., Li J.-T., Qiao L., Preston S.I., Liu P., Li J.
Published in: Reviews in Aquaculture
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Shrimp farming has been the fastest-growing sector in seawater aquaculture and has contributed to improving the farmers (more…)

Post-rift regional volcanism in southern Santos Basin and the uplift of the adjacent South American coastal range

By: Schattner U., Michaelovitch de Mahiques M.
Published in: Journal of South American Earth Sciences
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The Serra do Mar coastal mountain range plays a crucial role in the sedimentary budget of both the South American contin (more…)

Droughts in the desert: Medieval Warm Period associated with coarse sediment layers in the Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat, Red Sea

By: Kalman A., Katz T., Hill P., Goodman-Tchernov B.
Published in: Sedimentology
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Prolonged droughts can cause environmental stress, even in ecosystems that are already adapted to dry conditions. In the (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…)

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…)

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…)

A Neolithic mega-tsunami event in the eastern Mediterranean: Prehistoric settlement vulnerability along the Carmel coast, Israel

By: Shtienberg G., Yasur-Landau A., Norris R.D., Lazar M., Rittenour T.M., Tamberino A., Gadol O., Cantu K., Arkin-Shalev E., Ward S.N., Levy T.E.
Published in: PLoS ONE
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Tsunami events in antiquity had a profound influence on coastal societies. Six thousand years of historical records and (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…)

Modeling the effects of brine outflow from desalination plants on coastal food-webs of the Levantine basin (eastern Mediterranean Sea)

By: Grossowicz M., Ofir E., Shabtay A., Wood J., Biton E., Belkin N., Frid O., Sisma-Ventura G., Kress N., Berman-Frank I., Gal G.
Published in: Desalination
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Population growth and climate change have led to an increasing demand for freshwater, and subsequently to an exponential (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…)

Environmental controls on butterfly occurrence and species richness in Israel: The importance of temperature over rainfall

By: Comay O., Ben Yehuda O., Schwartz-Tzachor R., Benyamini D., Pe’er I., Ktalav I., Pe’er G.
Published in: Ecology and Evolution
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Butterflies are considered important indicators representing the state of biodiversity and key ecosystem functions, but (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…)

Seasonal Dynamics Are the Major Driver of Microbial Diversity and Composition in Intensive Freshwater Aquaculture

By: Marmen S., Fadeev E., Al Ashhab A., Benet-Perelberg A., Naor A., Patil H.J., Cytryn E., Viner-Mozzini Y., Sukenik A., Lalzar M., Sher D.
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Aquaculture facilities such as fishponds are one of the most anthropogenically impacted freshwater ecosystems. The high (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…)

Human disturbance on phosphorus sources, processes and riverine export in a subtropical watershed

By: Yuan X., Krom M.D., Zhang M., Chen N.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment
SDGs : SDG 15  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Phosphorus (P) is a key nutrient in freshwater systems, often acting as the limiting nutrient. The dominant sources of P (more…)