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Sarah Stroumsa

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sarah is a professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Ofer Gal

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University of Sydney
Ofer Gal is a professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. His research interests are the history and philosophy of science.
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Tzvi Abusch

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Brandeis University
Tzvi is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. His research interests are Ancient Mesopotamian religious literature.
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George Heimpel

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University of Minnesota
George Heimpel is a professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are entomology, ecology, conservation biology, parasitoid biology, and biological control.
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Ady Pauzner

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Tel Aviv University

Ady is a professor in the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University. His research interests are game theory and economic theory.

Research Groups:Health and the Environment: A Unifying Framework from Individual Stress to Ecosystem Functioning

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[RG # 147]   Health and the Environment: A Unifying Framework from Individual Stress to Ecosystem Functioning

June 1 - August 31, 2016

Organizer:
Dror Hawlena (The Hebrew University)

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Our Research Group aims to develop a general theory that provides novel, mechanistic understandings of the ways in which environmental changes regulate ecosystem processes via alteration of an animal's trophic functions.

We suggest using stress physiology as a common mechanism to scale plasticity in energy and elemental budgets at the individual level to processes occurring at the population, community and ecosystem levels. Trait expressions are shaped by evolution and are constrained by conservative biological processes. Thus, this evolutionary-based framework has much potential to reveal how ecological interactions emerge across levels of biological organization, and may assist in unifying existing, currently separated theories. Such an understanding is also crucial to better predict how human-induced rapid environmental changes will affect life-supporting ecosystem services. 

 

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