| PINSHOW, BERRY |
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Contact:
Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology
Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research
BGU, Sede-Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel
Telephone: +972-8-6596773
Fax: +972-8-6596772
E-mail: pinshow@bgu.ac.il
Born: 1947, South Africa.
Ph.D.: 1975, Duke University; Full Professor 1995. |
Research Interests:
Physiological ecology; animal-environment energy and water exchange; physiology of thermoregulation and osmoregulation in desert animals; avian respiration; thermoregulation and osmoregulation and their role in flight duration, especially in migrating birds; physiological ecology of desert bats.
Research Projects:
(a) Reproductive physiology in the European free-tailed bat and Hemprich’s long-eared bat in the Negev and its effects on foraging behavior, with Dr. Carmi Korine and Shai Daniel;
(b) Dietary energetics and community ecology of desert insectivorous bats, with Dr. Carmi Korine;
(c) The role of ethanol in nutritional and sensory physiology of frugivores with Dr. Carmi Korine, Dr. Robert Dudley (U.C. Berkeley, Francisco Sanchez and Shunit Mazeh,
(d) Oxalate metabolism in fat sand rats, with Dr. Itzick Vatnick (Widener University), Dr. Carmi Korine and Niv Palgi;
(e) Respiratory gas exchange in anti-lions with Efrat Elimelech and in other animals (bats, birds, lizards, etc.) with Dr. Carmi Korine, Prof. Zvika Abramsky and Dr. Amos Bouskila,
(f) Para-cellular sugar absorption in Egyptian fruit bats and dabb lizards bats, with Drs. Chris R. Tracy and William H. Karasov.
Research Projects for M.Sc.:
There are projects avaialable in under all the ones funded that are listed.
Recent Publications
Ovadia, O, Z. Abramsky, B. Kotler and B. Pinshow. Inter-specific competitors reduce inter-gender competition in Negev Desert gerbils. Behavioural Ecology, 142:480-488 (2005).
Korine, C. and B. Pinshow. Guild structure, foraging space use, and distribution in a community of insectivorous bats in the Negev Desert. Journal of Zoology, 262:187-196 (2004).
Karasov, W.H., B. Pinshow, D. Afik and J.M. Starck. Anatomical and histological changes in the alimentary tract of migrating blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla): a comparison among fed, fasted, food-restricted and refed birds. Physiological and biochemical zoology, 77(1):149-160 (2004).
Korine, C., S. Daniel, I.G. van Tets, R. Yosef and B. Pinshow. Measuring fat mass in small birds by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Physiological and biochemical zoology, 73:522-529 (2004).
Markman, S., B. Pinshow, J. Wright and B.P. Kotler. Food patch use by parent birds: to gather food for themselves or for their chicks? Journal of Animal Ecology, 73:747–755 (2004).
McWhorter, T.J., C. Mart?nez del Rio, B. Pinshow and L. Roxburgh. Renal function in Palestine sunbirds: elimination of excess water does not constrain energy intake. The Journal of experimental biology, 207:3391-3398 (2004).
Hambly, C,B., P. Pinshow, P. Wiersma, S. Verhulst, S.B. Piertney, E. J. Harper and J.R. Speakman. Comparison of the cost of short flights in a nectarivorous and non-nectarivorous bird. Journal of experimental biology, 207:3959-3968 (2004).
Korine, C., I. Vatnick, I.G. van Tets and B. Pinshow. New observations on urine contents in water-deprived Negev Desert rodents. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 81:941-945 (2003).
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