Contact:
Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology
Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research
BGU, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel
Telephone: +972-8-6563441
Fax: +972-8-659-6772
E-mail: shirlibd@bgu.ac.il
Born: 1968, Israel.
Ph.D.: 2003, Tel-Aviv University, Lecturer, 2007
Research Interests:
Spatial ecology and spatial genetics and their implications for conservation biology and wildlife management;
Specifically, populations' spatial and genetic structure, factors affecting range expansion of colonizing populations (introduced and reintroduced),
dispersal and movement patterns of individuals under different landscape scenarios,
and spread of infectious wildlife diseases; Reintroductions of threatened species.
Research Projects:
(a) Development of genetic structure and spatial range expansion of colonizing populations
with implications for conservation: the reintroduced endangered wild ass, with Prof. A. Templeton (Washington University, St. Louis), and Prof Y. Carmel (Technion);
(b) Movement ecology of the endangered fire salamander: integration of ecological and genetic data and implication to conservation, with Prof. L. Blaustein and his lab members (University of Haifa), and Prof. A. Templeton (Washington University, St. Louis);
(c) Movement Patterns of large herbivores: the African buffalo as a case study, with Prof. W. Getz (UC Berkeley, CA);
(d) The process of home range establishment of reintroduced populations: the Persian fallow deer, with Prof. D. Saltz (Ben-Gurion University).
Research Projects for M.Sc.
(b) Population's genetic structure of a reintroduced population.
(a) Spatial dynamics of reintroduced wild ass in the Negev.
(c) Genetic changes (e.g. bottleneck effects) within the breeding core and the wild population, following reintroductions.
Publications:
(a) Chapters in collective volumes
- Bar-David, S., Dolev, A., Dayan, T., and Saltz, D. 1999. Behavioral and ecological aspects of reintroduced Persian fallow deer (Dama dama mesopotamica). Zomborszky. Z. (editor), Advances in Deer Biology. Pannon University of Agriculture Faculty of Life Science, Kaposvár, Hungary. pp. 187-189.
2. Dolev, A., Bar-David, S., Yom-Tov, Y., and Saltz, D.1999. Home range establishment in reintroduced Persian fallow deer (Dama dama mesopotamica). Zomborszky. Z. (editor), Advances in Deer Biology. Pannon University of Agriculture Faculty of Life Science, Kaposvár, Hungary. pp. 41-43.
- Saltz, D., Lourie, A., Bar- David, S., and Dolev, A. 1999. Planning and implementing a long-term reintroduction program for Persian fallow deer (Dama dama mesopotamica). Zomborszky. Z. (editor), Advances in Deer Biology. Pannon University of Agriculture Faculty of Life Science, Kaposvár, Hungary. pp. 190-193.
4. Getz, W. M., J. O. Lloyd-Smith, P. C. Cross, S. Bar-David, P. L. Johnson, T. C. Porco, M. S. Sánchez, 2006. Modeling the invasion and spread of contagious disease in heterogeneous populations. Feng, Z., Dieckmann, U., Levin, S.A. (eds.), Disease Evolution: Models, Concepts and Data Analyses, AMS-DIMACS Vol. 71: 113-144
5. Bar-David S, Lloyd-Smith J. O, and Getz W. M. 2006. Dynamics and Management of Infectious Disease in Reintroduced Populations: the Case of Persian fallow Deer in Israel. McNeely J. A., McCarthy T.M. (eds.), Conservation Biology in Asia: Current Status and Future Perspectives, the Society for Conservation Biology. 340-362.
(b) Refereed articles in scientific journals
- Zlotogora, J., Lerer, I., Bar-David, S., Ergaz, Z., Abeliovich, D. 1995. Homozygosity for Waardenburg Syndrome. American Journal of human Genetics 56: 1173-1178.
- Bar-David, S., Lerer, I., Kimchi Sarfaty, C., Gelman Kohen, Z., Meiner, V., Zlotogora, J., and Abeliovich, D. 1996. Localization of two X-linked mental retardation (XLMR) genes to Xp: MRX37 gene at Xp22.31-p22.32 and a putative MRX gene on Xp22.11-p22.2. American Journal of Medical Genetics 64: 83-88.
- Dolev, A., Saltz, D., Bar- David, S., and Yom-Tov, Y. 2002. The impact of
repeated releases on the space-use patterns of reintroduced Persian fallow
deer (Dama dama mesopotamica) in Israel. Journal of Wildlife Management.
66: 737-746.
- Perelberg, A., Saltz, D., Bar-David, S., Dolev, A., and Yom-Tov, Y. 2003. Seasonal and circadian changes in the home ranges of reintroduced Persian fallow deer. Journal of Wildlife Management. 67: 485-492.
5. Bar-David S, Saltz D., Dayan T. Dolev, A., Perelberg, A. 2005. Demographic models and reality in reintroductions: the Persian fallow deer in Israel. Conservation Biology 19:131-138.
6. Bar-David S, Saltz D., Dayan T. 2005. Predicting the spatial dynamics of reintroduced populations – The Persian fallow deer. Ecological Applications 15: 1833-1846. (Article featured in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 2005. 86: 121-123).
7. Bar-David S, J. O. Lloyd-Smith, and W. M. Getz, 2006. Dynamics and Management of Infectious Disease in Colonizing Populations. Ecology 87: 1215-1224.
8. Bar-David S, Segev O., Peleg N., Hill N., Templeton A.R., Schultz S.B., and Blaustein L 2007. Long distance movement by Fire Salamander (S. s. infraimmaculata) and Implications for habitat fragmentation. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 53: 143-160.
9. Bar-David S, Saltz D., Dayan T., and Shkedy Y 2008. Using spatially expanding populations as a tool for evaluating landscape planning: the reintroduced Persian fallow deer as a case study. Journal for Nature Conservation 16: 164-174.
10. Bar-David S., Bar-David I., Cross P. C., Rayn S. J., Knechteland C. U., and Getz W. M 2009. Methods for assessing movement path recursion with application to African buffalo in the Kruger regions of South Africa. Ecology (in press).