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Publications

“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man
can ever feel”

- Claude Bernard -

A village a field? Agronomic evaluation of fruit trees in inhabited space–Lessons for land use policy from a case study in Israel's Sharon Region‏

E Ben-Simchon, Y Grunwald, G Ben-Ari, A Rosenfeld, O Shelef‏

Land Use Policy 123, 106411‏

2022

 

Valorization of Local Legumes and Nuts as Key Components of the Mediterranean Diet‏

I Hernández-López, J Ortiz-Solà, C Alamprese, L Barros, O Shelef, ...‏

Foods 11 (23), 3858‏

2022

 

From Traditional Food to Functional Food? Evaluation of Malvaceae Species as Novel Food Crops‏

L Basheer, E Ben-Simchon, A Cohen, O Shelef‏

Agronomy 11 (7), 1294‏

2021

 

Caterpillars on a phytochemical landscape: The case of alfalfa and the Melissa blue butterfly‏

ML Forister, SA Yoon, CS Philbin, CD Dodson, B Hart, JG Harrison, ...‏

Ecology and evolution 10 (10), 4362-4374‏

82020

 

Below-Ground Interactions in Ecological Processes‏

O Shelef, PG Hahn, A Pineda, MV Tejesvi, A Martinez-Medina‏

Frontiers Media SA‏

22020

 

Malvaceae spp. leaves as a novel crop for food‏

BENS Eyal, E Sapir, Y Vaknin, O Shelef‏

International Journal of Agriculture Forestry and Life Sciences 3 (2), 279-286‏

2019

 

As above so below? Progress in understanding the role of belowground interactions in ecological processes‏

O Shelef, PG Hahn, A Pineda, MV Tejesvi, A Martinez-Medina‏

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 318‏

2019

 

Thermal Benefits From White Variegation of Silybum marianum Leaves‏

O Shelef, L Summerfield, S Lev-Yadun, S Villamarin-Cortez, R Sadeh, ...‏

Frontiers in plant science 10, 688‏

2019

Coming to common ground: the challenges of applying ecological theory developed aboveground to rhizosphere interactions‏

O Shelef, PG Hahn, Z Getman-Pickering, A Martinez Medina‏

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 58‏

2019

 

Modern approaches to study plant–insect interactions in chemical ecology‏

LA Dyer, CS Philbin, KM Ochsenrider, LA Richards, TJ Massad, ...‏

Nature Reviews Chemistry 2 (6), 50-64‏

2018

 

Deconstruction of a plant‐arthropod community reveals influential plant traits with nonlinear effects on arthropod assemblages‏

JG Harrison, CS Philbin, Z Gompert, GW Forister, L Hernandez‐Espinoza, ...‏

Functional Ecology 32 (5), 1317-1328‏

2018

 

Tripartite symbiosis of plant-weevil-bacteria is a widespread phenomenon in the Negev Desert‏

N Bar-Shmuel, E Rogovin, S Rachmilevitch, ALL Friedman, O Shelef, ...‏

Scientific reports 8 (1), 1-8‏

2018

 

Caterpillars on a phytochemical landscape 3‏

ML Forister, S Yoon, CS Philbin, CD Dodson, B Hart, JG Harrison, ...‏

bioRxiv, 498139‏

2018

The value of native plants and local production in an era of global agriculture‏

O Shelef, PJ Weisberg, FD Provenza‏

Frontiers in plant science 8, 2069‏

2017

 

Green roofs: what can we learn from desert plants?‏

I Dirks, B Raviv, O Shelef, A Hill, A Eppel, MK Aidoo, B Hoefgen, ...‏

Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution 62 (1-2), 58-67‏

2016

 

Insights into root structure and function of Bassia indica: water redistribution and element dispersion‏

O Shelef, P Pongrac, P Pelicon, P Vavpetič, M Kelemen, M Seifan, ...‏

Functional Plant Biology 43 (7), 620-631‏

2016

 

Land use change, a case study from southern Italy: general implications for agricultural subsidy policies‏

O Shelef, I Stavi, P Zdruli, S Rachmilevitch‏

Land Degradation & Development 27 (4), 868-870‏

2016

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