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Academic Degrees and appointments

B.Sc. 1990	Department of Biology, Oranim College, Haifa University, Israel. Summa Cum Laude.
M.Sc. 1993	Environmental Biology Curriculum, Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Summa Cum Laude.
Ph.D. 1999	Environmental Biology Curriculum, Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
2018	Research Fellow, University of Technology, Sydney, AUS (sabbatical).
2012	Guest scientist, University of Cambridge, UK. (sabbatical).
2008 – present	Associate Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
2003 – 2008	Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
2000 – 2003	Lecturer, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion, Israel.
1998-2000	Research Associate. Department of Forest Sciences, College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University.
1994 – 1998	Doctoral Student. Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Supervisors: Dr. Ronen Kadmon, Prof. Uzi Mutro.
1990 – 1993	Graduate Student. Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Supervisor: Prof. Uriel Safriel.

Research Interests 

• Spatial and dynamic models of ecological systems.
• Long term vegetation dynamics at the landscape scale.
• Local and regional patterns of biodiversity.
• Use of Remote Sensing and GIS for natural resources management.
• Spatial accuracy and error propagation in GIS databases.
• Modelling forest fire risk.

Academic activities

Technion Activities

2019 – present	Vice Dean for student affairs, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
2016 – present	Head, Environmental Engineering Curriculum.
2016 – 2017	Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
2016 – 2017	Member, Technion Library Committee.
2015 – 2016	Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
2009 – 2011	Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Environmental Engineering.
2009 – 2011	Seminar coordinator. Environment and Water Seminar. A joint seminar of the Department of Environmental Engineering and the Grand Water Institute.
2001 – 2011	Scientific Director. The Ecological Garden of The Technion.

Public Professional Activities

2015 — 2017	Chair. KKL Professional Scientific Committee (Established 2015).
2014	Member. International Advisory Panel, Science Division of Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
2013 – 2015	Affiliated member. Professional committee, Board of Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
2013 – 2014	Member. The Israel Council for Higher Education Committee for Central Research Infrastructure: Sub-Committee on Environment.
2009 – 2017	Founder and chair of the board. Ecology and Environment. A peer reviewed journal on the science and policy of environment. In Hebrew.
2009 – 2016	Member. Professional committee for research of the Sea of Galilee and its watershed, Israel Ministry of Infrastructure.
2008, 2011, 2014, 2018	Plenary Lecturer. Annual meeting of the Israel Biology Teachers. Various topics. Organized by the National Center for Biology Teachers.
2007 – 2008	Member. Accuracy-08 Scientific Committee (The 8th International Conference on Spatial Accuracy in Environmental Science, Shanghai, June 2008).
2007 – 2014	Speaker. Basha’ar activity: 1-2 visits annually in High school classes, teaching on global environmental change.
2007 – 2013	Member. The Israel Council of Botanical Gardens.
2006 – 2010	Chair. The Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Science.
2006 – 2008	Member, The National Biodiversity Committee, Israel Ministry of Environment.

Editorial activities:

2014 — present	Editorial Board Member. Conservation Biology.
2015 — 2018	Editorial Board Member. PLoSONE.
2006 – 2016	Editorial Board member, Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution.

Reviewer for journals:

Applied Vegetation Science, Conservation Biology, Diversity and Distributions, Ecology Letters, Ecosphere, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Management, Forest Ecology and Management, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, International Journal of Geographic Information Systems, Journal of Arid Environments, Journal of Surveying Engineering, Journal of Vegetation Science, Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape Ecology, Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Plant Ecology, PLoSONE, Rangeland Ecology and Management, Small Ruminant research, Trees—Structure and Function.

Reviewer for funding agencies:

2013	Member. Forest Research Evaluation Committee, National Academy of Finland.
2007 – 2010	Member. Ecological and environmental research committee, KKL.
2006 – 2011	Member. Evaluation panel for forest research, The Israel Ministry of Agriculture.
Four separate years	Member. Research Evaluation Committee, Israel Science Foundation; Binational Science Foundation.
Various years	Promotion professional committees and reference letters: evaluation of a total of 8 faculty members from Haifa U., Ben Gurion University (3), USFS, IOLR, Bar Ilan University, and Tel Aviv University.
2007 – 2010	Member. Ecological and environmental research committee, KKL.
2006 – 2011	Member. Evaluation panel for forest research, The Israel Ministry of Agriculture.
Four separate years	Member. Research Evaluation Committee, Israel Science Foundation; Binational Science Foundation.

Graduate Students

Completed (principle advisor in bold).

1. Stoller-Kavari, Liron. Using environmental surrogates for biodiversity mapping. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed 2003.
2. Altman, Talia. Continental scale GIS analysis of potential capacity of ‘Energy Towers’. Supervisors: Dan Zaslavsky, Yerachmiel Deutcher, Yohay Carmel. Completed 2003, Summa Cum Laude.
3. Bar Massada, Avi. Assessment of temporal changes in above-ground forest tree biomass using aerial photographs and allometric equations. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Dan Yakir (Weitzman Institute), Gilad Even Tzur. Completed 2004.
4. Court, Lia. MSc. at the Natural Resources Program, Haifa University. GIS analysis of resource use by vultures in the Golan Heights. Supervisors: Ido Itzhaki (Haifa University), Yohay Carmel. Completed 2004.
5. Fichler, Ezer. MSc. at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. Development of a model to identify urban development influences on ecosystems using fragmentation measures. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Pnina Plaut. Completed 2006.
6. Segal, Bosmat. MSc. Nature reserve management for conservation of its natural resources. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed 2007.
7. Bar Massada, Avi. PhD. Mapping and Modeling the Dynamics of Mediterranean Vegetation for Various Management Activities. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed 2009. Current position: Senior Lecturer, Haifa University, Oranim Campus.
8. Blank, Lior. PhD. Representing biodiversity using woody vegetation patterns for ecosystem management. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2010. Current position: Researcher, Volcani Agricultural Research Institute.
9. Makler, Vardit, PhD. A computer ecosystem model applied for studying the food web and water quality of Lake Kinneret. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Gideon Gal (Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institution). Completed: 2010.
10. Kent, Rafi. PhD. Prioritizing land for ecosystem-conservation using multi-source and multi-scale information. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2010. Current position: Senior Scientist, Hamaarag.
11. Liberzon, Yonatan, MSc. Seasonal dynamics of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in Lake Kinneret. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Dror Angel (Haifa University). Completed: 2010.
12. Gahashan, Faris. MSc. Spatially explicit Fire risk assessment of Mediterranean forests in Israel. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Maxim Shoshani. Completed: 2011.
13. Federman, Roy. MSc. Potential distribution and monitoring the invasive species the Little Fire Ant Wasmannia auropunctata. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2011. Current position: Regional Scientist, Amakim region, Nature and Parks Authority.
14. Porat, Yahel. MSc. Reptile- and Amphibian species diversity in the agro-ecosystems: evaluating the ecological value of agricultural land uses. Supervisors: Tamar Dayan, Tel Aviv University, Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2011. Current position: Head of the Ecology Department, Israel Forest Authority, KKL.
15. Nezer, Oded. MSc. Modelling distribution and habitat of the re-introduced Wild Ass in the Negev Desert. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Shirli Bar David (Ben Gurion). Completed: 2011. Current position: Head of Solid Waste Department, Israel Ministry of Environment.
16. Davidson, Achiad. MSc. Predicting movement pathways using non-invasive methods: The reintroduced Asiatic wild ass in the Negev. Supervisors: Shirli Bar David (Ben Gurion), Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2011.
17. Vadov, Olga. MSc. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Gil Rilov (IOLR). Completed: 2013.
18. Noy, Gili. MSc. A quantitative approach for Environmental Impact Assessment of a desalination plan: Shavei-Zion case study. Supervisors: David Broday, Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2014.
19. Troupin, David. PhD. Systematic conservation planning for dynamic ecological and anthropogenic Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2015. Current position: Research Associate, Haifa University.
20. Zach, Aviv. MSc. Optimal Combination of Various Wildlife Overpasses and Underpasses in Roads in Israel. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2017.
21. Zafon, Zohar. MSc. Can landscape characteristics represent biodiversity as an indicator of ecological value? Supervisors: Daniel Orenstein, Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2017. Current position: Head of Planning Division, KKL South District.
22. Segal, Ella. MSc. Quantifying the grazing services offered by goats for fire zone maintenance in Mt. Carmel. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Serge Yan Landau (Volcani ARO). Completed: 2017.
23. Shabtay, Ateret. PhD. Marine spatial planning along the Israeli Mediterranean coast: integrating infrastructure and marine protected areas. Supervisors: Michelle Portman, Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2018. Current position: Postdoc in France.
24. Gueta, Tomer. PhD. Enhancing biodiversity research using data quality assessment, bias detection and data cleaning. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Completed: 2019.

In progress

25. Segre, Hila. PhD. Supervisors: Assaf Schwartz, Yohay Carmel. Cost-benefit analysis of agro-ecological schemes. Expected completion: 2019.
26. Gao, Junjing. PhD. Modelling grazing impact of nomadic pastoralists in the northern China and in the eastern Mediterranean region. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Expected completion: 2019.
27. Hadar, Liat. PhD. Supervisors: Daniel Orenstein (Technion), Yagil Osem (ARO), Yohay Carmel. Expected completion: 2019.
28. Rohatin, Shani. PhD. Supervisors: Yohay Carmel, Dan Yakir. Expected completion: 2020.
29. Tsafrir, Anat. PhD. Supervisors: Ofer Ovadia (BGU), Yagil Osem (ARO), Yohay Carmel. Expected completion: 2019.

Incomplete

The late Gil Sapir. PhD. Spatially explicit model for post-fire vegetation regeneration. Supervisor: Yohay Carmel. Initiated 2005. Died 2008.

Post-Docs

1. Vijay Barve. 2016-2017. Data-Cleaning of Big Biodiversity Data.
2. Harel Agra. 2013-2016. Forest conservation evidence.
3. Rafi Kent. 2011-2012. Multiscale quantification of species composition determinants.
4. Hagai Shemesh. 2011-2013. Selecting optimal locations for establishing new populations of The Lortet Iris. Current position: Lecturer, Tel Hai College.
5. Amit Dolev. 2008-2010. Controlling space use by cattle using artificial troughs and feeding sites. Current position: District Scientist, Northen District, Nature and Parks Authority.
6. Jose Gruenzweig. 2003-2004. A Comparative Study of vegetation dynamics in Mediterranean Ecosystems in California and in Israel. Current position: Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Research Grants

2019             The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities grant for: The Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on ‘Socio-Technological Evolution of the Human Species: Is Humanity undergoing an evolutionary transition‘. $40,000. Y Carmel, A Shavit (Tel Hai College), and E Lam (TAU).

2016-2019     Israel Science Foundation (ISF). Integrating data cleaning with data analysis to enhance usability of big biodiversity data. $210,000. Y Carmel.

2013-2016     Binational Science Foundation (BSF). Mycorrhiza as a mediator between the timing and intensity of fire and the regeneration of Mediterranean woodlands. $210,000. H Shemesh (Tel Hai College), O Ovadia (Ben Gurion University), Y Osem (ARO), Y Carmel (Technion).

2013-2016     Yad Hanadiv. Forest Conservation Evidence. $154,000. Y Carmel (Technion).

2011-2013     Jewish National Fund and the Nature and Parks Authority. Selecting the best locations for establishing new populations of The endangered Lortet Iris. $25,000. Y Carmel, (Technion), H Shemesh (Tel Hai College), Y Sapir (Tel Aviv University).

2010-2012     Israel Science Foundation (ISF). Multi-scale determination of species composition determinants. $190,000. Y Carmel.

2006-2008     Jewish National Fund. Fire risk assessment for The Judea Mountains. $35,000. Y Carmel, M Shoshany (Technion), S Paz (Haifa Univ).

2006-2008     Jewish National Fund. Model of post-fire vegetation regeneration. $15,000. G Sapir (Technion) and Y Carmel.

2006-2008     Israel Ministry of Science. Biodiversity and ecosystem management across a rainfall gradient in Israel. $300,000. Five research groups. Technion share $32,000.

2005-2007     Israel Science Foundation (ISF). Hierarchical model for Mediterranean vegetation dynamics. $130,000. Y Carmel, I Noy Meir (Hebrew University). Technion share $130,000.

2004-2005     Israel Ministry of Science. Assessment of chronic exposure of the Haifa Bay population to air pollution and possible relations to morbidity. $300,000, S Linn (Haifa University). D Broday, Y Carmel (Technion). Technion share $200,000.

2004-2005     International Arid Lands Consortium. Dryland vegetation dynamics and landscape vulnerability to wildfire. $100,000, groups from the University of Arizona, Technion, Alicante University (Spain) and Haifa University (Technion share $15,000).

2003-2005     Jewish National Fund. Spatially explicit fire risk assessment of Mediterranean forests in Israel. $25,000. Y Carmel.

2002-2004     U.S. Forest Service. Comparative vegetation dynamics in California and Israel. $150,000. Y Carmel, C Flather (U.S. Forest Service, CI). Technion share $110,000

2002             Israel Ministry of Environment. Environmental surrogates for mapping biodiversity. $15,000. Y Carmel.

2002-2004     Israel Ministry of Agriculture. Hydrological and ecological functions of canals and streams – optimization approach. $90,000, U Shavit, O Lahav, Y Carmel (Technion).

2002-2003     International Arid Lands Consortium. Optimizing resource management under spatial uncertainty. $90,000, T. Ellsworth (Univ. of Illinois), Y Carmel, D Broday (Technion). Technion share $45,000

2001-2003     Israel Ministry of Agriculture. Spatial model of effluent irrigation effects on surface runoff. $50,000, R Wallach (Hebrew University), A Shaviv, Y Carmel (Technion).

2001-2002     Israel Nature and Parks Authority. Nature reserve management for conservation of its endangered Iris species. $13,000. Y Carmel.

 Professional projects

2006-2007      Development of Monitoring and Evaluation Program for a selected set of National Parks in Nigeria. A GEF (Global Environmental Facility) – World Bank project. Dr. Yehuda Shevah, Prof. Janice Elaine Olawoye, Dr. Yohay Carmel.

2007                Scientific Advisor of the Hebrew edition of ‘Inconvenient Truth’ by Al Gore.

2008               Ecological assessment of protection alternatives for the South Dead Sea region, conducted for the Dead Sea Preservation Government Company.

 PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Papers in Professional Journals (In bold red: students and postdocs in my lab).

1. Carmel Y, Safriel UN. 1998. Habitat use by bats in a Mediterranean ecosystem in Israel – Conservation implications. Biological Conservation 84:245-250.
2. Carmel Y, Kadmon R. 1998. Computerized classification of Mediterranean vegetation using panchromatic aerial photographs. Journal of Vegetation Science 9:445-454.
3. Carmel Y, Kadmon R. 1999. Effects of grazing and topography on long term vegetation changes in a Mediterranean ecosystem. Plant Ecology 145:239-250.
4. Carmel Y, Kadmon R, Nirel R. 2001. Spatio-temporal predictive models of Mediterranean vegetation dynamics. Ecological Applications 11(1):268-280.
5. Carmel Y, Dean DJ, Flather CH. 2001. Combining location and classification error sources for estimating multi-temporal database accuracy. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 67(7):865-872.
6. Carmel Y, Naveh Z. 2002. The paradigm of ecosystem and the paradigm of landscape in ecology – implications for land planning and management in the Mediterranean region. Journal of Mediterranean Ecology 4:79-91.
7. Carmel Y. 2004. Characterizing location and classification error patterns in time-series thematic maps. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing letters 1(1):11-14.
8. Carmel Y, Dean DJ. 2004. Performance of a spatio-temporal error model for raster datasets under complex error patterns. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25 (23): 5283-5296.
9. Carmel Y. 2004. Controlling data uncertainty via aggregation in remotely sensed data. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 1(2):39-41.
10. Carmel Y, Flather CH. 2004. Comparing landscape scale vegetation dynamics following recent disturbance in climatically similar sites in California and the Mediterranean basin. Landscape Ecology, 19:573-590.
11. Carmel Y, Ben Haim Y. 2005. Info-gap robust-satisficing model of foraging behavior. American Naturalist 166(5): 633-640.
12. Yuval Z, Broday D, Carmel Y. 2005. Mapping spatio–temporal variables: the impact of the time–averaging window width on spatial accuracy. Atmospheric Environment 39(20):3611-3619.
13. Svoray T, Carmel Y. 2005. Empirical method for topographic correction in aerial photographs. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 2(2):211-214.
14. Altman T, Carmel Y, Gueta R, Zaslavsky D, Doytsher Y. 2005. Assessment of an “Energy Tower” potential in Australia using a mathematical model and GIS. Solar Energy 78(6): 799-808.
15. Carmel Y, Stoler-Kavari L. 2006. Comparing environmental and biological surrogates for biodiversity at a local scale. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 52(1):11-27.
16. Moilanen A, Runge MC, Elith J, Tyre A, Carmel Y, Fegraus E, Wintle B, Burgman M, Ben-Haim Y. 2006. Planning for robust reserve networks using uncertainty analysis. Ecological Modelling 199:115-124.
17. Bar Massada A, Carmel Y, Gruenzweig JM, Yakir D, Even Tzur G. 2006. Assessment of temporal changes in above-ground forest tree biomass using aerial photographs and allometric equations. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36(10):2585-2594.
18. Carmel Y, Flather CH. 2006. Constrained range expansion and climate change assessments. A peer-reviewed letter. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4(4):178-179.
19. Segal B, Sapir Y, Carmel Y. 2006. Fragmentation and pollination crisis in the self-incompatible Iris bismarckiana (Iridaceae). Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 52:111-122.
20. Oman, SD, Landsman VL, Carmel Y, Kadmon R. 2007. Analyzing Spatially Distributed Binary Data Using Independent-Block Estimating Equations. Biometrics 63:892-900.
21. Grünzweig JM, Carmel Y, Riov J, Sever N, McCreary DD, Flather CF. 2008. Growth, resource storage, and adaptation to drought in California and eastern Mediterranean oak seedlings. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38:331-342.
22. Bar Massada A, Gabay O, Perevolotzky A, Carmel Y. 2008. Quantifying the effect of grazing and shrub-clearing on small scale spatial pattern of vegetation. Landscape Ecology 23(3):327-339.
23. Bar Massada A, Carmel Y. 2008. Incorporating output variance in local sensitivity analysis for stochastic models. Ecological Modeling 213:463-467.
24. Steele K, Carmel Y, Cross J, Wilcox C. 2009. Uses and Misuses of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) in Environmental Decision-Making. Risk Analysis 29(1):26-33.
25. Carmel Y, Paz S, Jahshan F, Shoshany M. 2009. Assessing fire risk using Monte Carlo simulations of fire spread. Forest Ecology and Management 257(1):370-377.
26. Dolev A, Carmel Y. 2009. Distribution of threatened–unprotected vertebrates as a basis for conservation planning. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 55(2):117-132.
27. Bar Massada A, Carmel Y, Koniak G, Noy Meir I. 2009. The effects of disturbance based management on the dynamics of Mediterranean vegetation: A hierarchical and spatially explicit modeling approach. Ecological Modelling 220:2525-2553
28. van Leeuwen WJD, Casady GM, Neary DG, Bautista S, Alloza JA, Carmel Y, Wittenberg L, Malkinson D, Orr BJ. 2010. Monitoring post-wildfire vegetation response with remotely sensed time-series data in Spain, USA and Israel. International Journal of Wildland Fire 19:75-93.
29. Eitan O, Barchana M, Linn S, Yuval, Dubnov J, Carmel Y, Broday D. 2010. Spatial analysis of air pollution and cancer incidence rates in Haifa Bay, Israel. Science of the Total Environment 408(20):4429-4439.
30. Kent R, Carmel Y. 2011. Evaluation of five clustering algorithms for biodiversity surrogates. Ecological Indicators 11:896-901.
31. Makler V, Gal G, Gorfine M, Hipsey M, Carmel Y. 2011. Sensitivity analysis for complex ecological models – a new approach. Environmental Modelling & Software 26:124-134.
32. Kent R , Carmel Y. 2011. Presence-only vs. Presence-absence data in species composition determinant analyses. Diversity & Distributions 17:474-479.
33. Paz S, Carmel Y, Jahshan F, Shoshany M. 2011. Post-fire Analysis of Pre-fire mapping of fire-risk: A recent case study from Mt. Carmel (Israel). Forest Ecology and Management 262(7):1184-1188.
34. Gabay O, Perevolotsky A, Bar Massada A, Carmel Y, Shachak M. 2011. Differential effects of goat browsing on herbaceous plant community in a two-phase mosaic. Plant Ecology 212(10):1643-1653.
35. Kent R, Bar Massada A, Carmel Y. 2011. Multiscale analyses of mammal species composition – environment relationship in the contiguous USA. PLoSONE 6(9):e25440.
36. Blank L, Carmel Y. 2012. Woody vegetation patch types affect herbaceous species richness and composition in a Mediterranean ecosystem. Community Ecology 13(1):72-81.
37. Bar Massada A, Kent R, Blank L, Perevolotsky A, Hadar L, Carmel Y. 2012. Automated segmentation of vegetation structure units in a Mediterranean landscape. International Journal of Remote Sensing 33(2):346-364.
38. Blank L, Linker R, Carmel Y. 2013. A Multiscale Analysis of Herbaceous Species Richness in a Mediterranean Ecosystem. Journal of Plant Ecology 6(2):113-121 .
39. Sutherland WJ, Freckleton RP, Godfray HCJ, Beissinger SR, Benton T, Cameron DD, Carmel Y, Coomes DA, Coulson T, Emmerson MC, Hails RS, Hays GC, Hodgson DJ, Hutchings MJ, Johnson D, Jones JPG, Keeling MJ, Kokko H, Kunin WE, Lambin X, Lewis OT, Malhi Y, Mieszkowska N, Milner-Gulland EJ, Norris K, Phillimore AB, Purves DW, Reid JM, Reuman DC, Thompson K, Travis JMJ, Turnbull LA, Wardle DA, Wiegand T. 2013. Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions. Journal of Ecology 101(1):58-67.
40. Carmel Y, Kent R, Bar Massada A, Blank L, Liberzon J, Nezer O, Sapir G, Federman R. 2013. Trends in ecological research during the last three decades – a systematic review. PLoSONE 8(4):e59813.
41. Davidson A, Carmel Y, Bar David S. 2013. Characterizing movement pathways using a non-invasive approach: The reintroduced Asiatic wild ass in the Negev . Landscape ecology 28(8):1465-1478.
42. Federman R, Kent R, Carmel Y. 2013. Irrigation as an important factor in species distribution models. Basic and Applied Ecology 14:651–658.
43. Troupin D, Carmel Y. 2014. Can agro-ecosystems efficiently complement protected area networks? Biological Conservation 169:158-166.
44. Bar-Massada A, Kent R, Carmel Y. 2014. Environmental heterogeneity affects the location of modeled communities along the niche-neutrality continuum. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281:20133249.
45. Kent R, Bar-Massada A, Carmel Y. 2014. Bird and mammal species composition in distinct geographic regions and their relationships with environmental factors across multiple spatial scales. Ecology and Evolution 4(10):1963-1971.
46. Liberzon J, Carmel Y, Angel DL. 2016. The elusive nature of fluorescent organic matter in Lake Kinneret, Israel. Hydrobiologia 763(1) 53-68.
47. Troupin D, Carmel Y. 2016. Landscape patterns of development under two alternative scenarios: implications for conservation. Land Use Policy 54:221-234.
48. Gueta T, Carmel Y. 2016. Quantifying the value of user-level data cleaning for big data: a case study using mammal distribution models. Ecological Informatics 34:139-145.
49. Nezer O, Bar-David, S, Gueta T, Carmel Y. 2017. High-resolution species-distribution model based on systematic sampling and indirect observations. Biodiversity and Conservation, 26(2): 421–437.
50. Carmel Y, Suprunenko Y F, Kunin W E, Kent R, Belmaker J, Bar-Massada A, Cornell S. 2017. Using competitive exclusion rate to unify Niche and Neutral perspectives on coexistence. Oikos, 126: 1451–1458, 10.1111/oik.04380.
51. Makler-Pick V, Hipsey M, Zohary T, Carmel Y, Gal G. 2017. Intraguild predation dynamics in a lake ecosystem based on a coupled hydrodynamic-ecological model: the example of Lake Kinneret (Israel). Biology, 6:2 22.
52. Eshel G, Carmel Y. 2017. Expanded View of Ecosystem Stability: A Grazed Grassland Case Study. PLoSONE, 12(6) e0178235.
53. Shabtay A, Portman M, Carmel Y. 2017. Incorporating principles of reconciliation ecology to achieve ecosystem-based marine spatial planning. Ecological Engineering, In Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.08.026.
54. Troupin D, Carmel Y. 2018. Conservation planning under uncertainty in urban development and vegetation dynamics. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0195429.
55. Shabtay A, Portman ME, Carmel Y. 2018. Contributions of marine infrastructures to marine planning and protected area networking. Aquatic Conservation, 28(4):1-10.
56. Shabtay A, Portman M, Gal G, Ofir E, Carmel Y. 2018. Using ecological modelling in marine spatial planning to enhance ecosystem-based management. Marine Policy 95:14-23.
57. Shemesh H, Shani G, Kent R, Carmel Y, and Sapir, Y. 2018. To mix or not to mix the sources of relocated plants? The case of the endangered Iris lortetii. Journal for Nature Conservation 45:41-47.
58. Tsafrir A, Osem Y, Shemesh H, Carmel Y, and Ovadia, O. In Press. Fire season modifies the perennial plant community composition through a differential effect on obligate seeders in eastern Mediterranean woodlands. Applied Vegetation Science, In Press. DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12408.

Books

Agra H, Carmel Y, Smith RK, Ne’eman G. 2016. Forest conservation: Global evidence for the effects of interventions. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Book Chapters

Carmel Y. 2005. Aggregation as a means of increasing thematic map accuracy. In: Atkinson P, Martin D, Foody GM, editors. Geodynamics. CRC Press, London, pages 29-38. A peer-reviewed book.

Naveh Z, Carmel Y. 2004. The evolution of the cultural Mediterranean landscape in Israel as affected by fire, grazing, and human activities. In: Wasser S, editor. Evolutionary theory and processes: modern horizons. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Pages 337-409.

Carmel Y, Kadmon R. 2000. Using historical aerial photographs for mapping vegetation changes. In: Kedar B, editor. Remote sensing. Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem, Israel. In Hebrew.

Other publications

Sapir G, Carmel Y. 2010. Predicting post-fire vegetation regeneration in pine plantations. Ecology and Environment 408(20):4429-4439. A peer-reviewed journal in Hebrew.

McCreary D. Grüzweig J. M. Carmel Y, Flather CH. 2008. The response of native oaks from California and Israel to Drought. In: A. Merelender, D. McCreary, K. L. Purcell, Technical Editors. Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Opportunities. USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station General Technical Report PSW-GTR-217. pp. 293-300.

 Talks, lectures, presentations

Invited Plenary Lectures

2019  Mythology in Ecology. A plenary lecture opening the 54^th Annual Congress of  the Grassland Society of Southern Africa. Upington, Cape Province, South Africa., July 2019.

2006  A methodology for translating positional error into measures of attribute error, and combining the two error sources. A plenary lecture at the 7^th international symposium on spatial accuracy in natural resources and environmental sciences. Pages 3-17 in The Symposium Proceedings, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2006.

2002  Ecosystem complexity and landscape complexity: implications for land planning and management. A plenary lecture at the XVII Conference of the Italian Association of Ecology, Urbino, Italy, September 2002.

Invited international presentations

2018   Myth in Ecology. In: The Ecological Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK, April 2018.

2017  Myth-ecology. In: The 3rd International Compassionate Conservation Conference, Sydney, Australia, November 2017.

2016  Complete competitors coexist forever. In: The ‘Ecology and Statistics seminar’, Department of Ecological Modelling, University of Goettingen, Germany, July 2016.

2015  Fire, grazing, and Mediterranean vegetation dynamics. In: seminar, Department of Plant Biology, University of Barcelona, Spain, March 2015.

2014  A mechanism for the ‘niche-neutrality continuum’. In: The Institute Seminar, The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa, Panama, September 2014.

2014  Prediction in Ecology. In: The Barro-Colorado Seminar, The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Barro-Colorado, Panama, September 2014.

2013  Putting the pieces together. In: The 4th NNC Workshop, Liverpool, UK, November 2013.

2012  Uncertainty and predictive power in ecological modelling. In: The Ecological Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK, March 2012.

2009  Comparing environmental and biological surrogates for biodiversity at a local scale. In: The 45^th International Congress of SISV and FIP. Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, June 2009.

2008  The necessity of clean technologies. In: Energy crossroads forum on advanced cleantech from Israel. Stanford, California, November 2008.

2007  Long-term monitoring for biodiversity conservation – the case of Nigeria national parks. In: Optimal and robust monitoring for conservation, a working group hosted by the Australian Centre for Excellence in Risk Assessment, Tasmania, August 2007.

2006  A methodology for translating positional error into measures of attribute error. Seminar at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, North Carolina. September 2006.

2006  Mapping biodiversity using alternative surrogates. Seminar at the Office of the Gran Paradiso National Park, Torino, Italy, September 2006.

2005  Landscape scale vegetation dynamics in the Mediterranean ecosystems. Department of Geography, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 2005.

2004  Post-fire vegetation regeneration in Mediterranean Woodlands in Israel. Workshop on Dryland Vegetation Dynamics and Landscape Vulnerability to Wildfire. University of Alicante, Spain, December 2004.

2004  Biodiversity mapping using environmental surrogates. In: ‘Setting priorities and making decisions for conservation risk management‘ – a working group meeting in the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, April 2004.

1999  Comparing long term dynamics of woodlands in California and Israel. In: IHRMP (Integrated Hardwood Range Management) annual meeting, Visalia, California, June 1999.

1999  An empirical model for predicting the consequences of alternative management decisions in Mediterranean vegetation. In: Predicting species occurrences – issues of scale and accuracy. Snowbird, Utah, October 1999.

Presentations in international conferences

2017  Carmel Y. Recasting the competitive exclusion principle. In: EcoTas, Ecological Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference. August 2017. Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia.

2016  Carmel Y, and Gueta T. Why you must clean your big data. In: Ecosummit. August 2016. Montpellier, France.

2015  Carmel Y, Suprunenko Y, Kunin B, and Cornell, S. 2015. Complete competitors coexist forever. In: The Annual meeting of the British Ecological Society. October 2015. Edinburgh, UK.

2014  A possible mechanism to solve the ‘plankton paradox’. In: The 8th MEDECOS Conference (International Conference of Mediterranean Ecosystems), Olmué, Chile, October 2014.

2003  Carmel Y. Aggregation as a means of reducing raster data uncertainty. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on GeoComputation. University of Southampton, UK, September 2003.

2003  Carmel Y. and Naveh Z. Ecosystems and landscapes: Land management implications. Keynote talk at the symposium on Science and Society, The International Association for Landscape Ecology World Congress, Darwin, Australia, July 2003.

2001  Carmel Y, Dean D.J and Flather C.H. Combining Location and Classification Error Sources for Estimating Multi-temporal Database Accuracy. Pages 107-108 in: Development of European landscapes — Proceedings of The IALE European conference (International Association of Landscape Ecology), Tartu, Estonia, July 2001.

2000  Carmel Y, Flather C.H. and Dean D.J. Modeling Vegetation Dynamics of Californian oak woodlands. ‘World Conference on Natural Resource Modelling’. Wageningen, the Netherlands, June 2000.

Invited plenary lectures in Israel

2011  Summary of the symposium – from the viewpoint of an interested outsider. A plenary lecture closing the 2^nd annual symposium of Conservation practice in the Nature and Parks Authority. Herzelia, Israel, December 2011.

2011  Disturbance and Mediterranean vegetation dynamics: Stochastic or deterministic processes? A plenary lecture at the 12^th Merav Ziv Symposium, Sde-Boker, Israel, May 2011.

Invited presentations in Israel

2014  A broad look at Israel’s vegetation. In: Mediterranean woodlands in Israel. In: Israel tour guides conference, Ramat Hanadiv, April 2014.

2013  Studying global changes: can we integrate across domains? In: Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar: Coordinated Approaches for Studying Long-term Ecosystem Responses to Global Change. Ramat Hanadiv, October 2013.

2011  Prediction in ecology. In: The Zoology Seminar, Tel Aviv University, November 2011.

2011  LiDAR and image segmentation for mapping Mediterranean vegetation sturcture. In: Sensing in Agriculture – an International Symposium in Memory of Dahlia Greidinger, The Technion, February 2011.

2008  Do Foragers Optimize or Satisfice? In: Department seminar, Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University, July 2008.

2008  Agriculture as a driving force in global environmental changes. In: ‘Nekudat Chen’ Annual Workshop, Zova, October 2008.

2007  Towards a strategy for coping with forest fires in Israel. In: The annual research workshop, KKL (Israel Forest Authority), Bet Dagan, December 2007.

2006  Mapping fire risk using multiple runs of fire behaviour model. In: The annual research workshop, KKL (Israel Forest Authority), Bet Dagan, December 2005.

2006  Two approaches to identify priority areas for Conservation. In: International workshop on approaches in biodiversity modelling. Deapartment Seminar, Ben Gurion University, March 2006.

2005  A comparison of two approaches for identifying key areas for biodiversity conservation. In: The international meeting of ISEEQS, Weizmann Institute, May 2005.

2005  Mediterranean landscapes in Israel and in California: The vegetation point of view. In: The Environmental History of Israel: An international workshop, Yad Ben Tzvi, Jerusalem, June 2005.

2005  Landscape-scale vegetation changes following disturbance in California and the Mediterranean basin. In: Active Management of Mediterranean Ecosystems. Ramat Hanadiv International Workshop, Ramat Hanadiv, April 2005.

2003  Mapping Biodiversity with environmental parameters. Office of the Chief Scientist, Israel Ministry of Environment. Jerusalem, December 2003.

2002  Mediterranean Vegetation Dynamics. In: Department of Geography Seminar, University of Haifa, January 2002.

2000  Comparison of Vegetation Dynamics in Israel and California. In: Land cover/land use change in arid regions: Remote sensing applications in the middle east — An international workshop. Ben Gurion University, October 2000.