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Ariel Novoplansky
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Tel 972-8-6596820 | Fax 972-8-6596821 anovopla|at|bgu|dot|ac|dot|il Evolutionary ecology of plants ● phenotypic plasticity ● development ●
morphogenesis ● learning ● competition ●
eco-devo ●
signal perception ● ecological
interactions ● competition ● communication ●
behavior ● evolution ● environmental information ● community ecology ● biodiversity ●
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The focus of my work is the evolutionary ecology of developmental
plasticity in plants. Developmental plasticity can be defined as the
ability to execute morphogenetical decisions based
on perceived information. Developmental plasticity plays a major role in the
adaptation of both animals and plants to heterogeneous environments and is
thought to be of particular importance in plants because of their limited
motility. In my research I aim to bridge the gulf between physiological, ecological and
evolutionary approaches. Though the emphasis of my research is on
adaptations and behaviors of individual plants, I am also studying the
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Teaching
● Evolutionary Ecology of Phenotypic Plasticity
● Dr Omer Falik, Research Associate
● Dr Michal Meir, Post-doc fellow
● Shachar Mauda, MSc
student
● Tatiana Bogdanova, MSc student
● Li Jiahong,
post-doc 1995-6
● Hagit Volin-Shilo,
MSc 1999
● Ayelet Danino, MSc 1999
● Zhang phengchun → Chinese Research
Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China
● Anna Sher, post-doc 1998-2000 →
University of Denver, CO, USA
● Chris Lortie, PhD 2001 → York
University, Toronto, Canada
● Tania Acuna, MSc 2001
● Omer Falik, PhD 2002
● Clara Ariza, MSc 2003
● Barak Guzner, MSc 2005
● Asaf Raz, MSc 2005
● Efrat Eliezer, MSc
2005
● Yafei Wang, MSc
2006
● Samson Nyanumba, MSc 2007 →
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
● Jennie McLaren, PhD 2010 (UBC) → Biological Sciences, University of Texas
at El Paso, USA
● Michal Gruntman, PhD 2011 →
Univesity of Tübingen, Germany
● Osama Al Joaba, MSc
● Hagai Shemesh, PhD 2011 → Tel-Hai College, Israel
Novoplansky, A., D. Cohen and T. Sachs
(1989) Ecological implications of correlative inhibition between plant shoots. Physiologia Plantarum 77: 136-140.
Novoplansky, A., D. Cohen and T. Sachs (1990)
How Portulaca seedlings avoid
their neighbours. Oecologia
(Berlin) 82: 490-493.
Novoplansky, A., T. Sachs, D. Cohen, R. Bar,
J. Budenheimer and R. Reisfeld
(1990) Increasing plant productivity by changing the solar spectrum. Solar
Energy Materials 21: 17-23.
Novoplansky, A. (1991) Developmental responses
of Portulaca seedlings to conflicting spectral
signals, Oecologia 88: 138-40.
Novoplansky, A., D. Cohen and T. Sachs (1994)
Responses of an annual plant to temporal changes in light environment: an
interplay between plasticity and determination, Oikos
69: 437-446.
Sachs, T. and A. Novoplansky (1995)
Tree form: architecture models do not suffice. Israel Journal of Plant
Sciences 43:203-212.
Novoplansky, A., (1996) Hierarchy
among potentially similar buds in two-shoot plants. Plant Cell and
Environment 19: 781-786.
Novoplansky,
A. (1996) Developmental
responses of individual Onobrychis plants
to spatial heterogeneity, Vegetatio 127:
31-39.
Goldberg, D. and A.
Novoplansky (1997) On the relative importance of competition in unproductive
environments. Journal of Ecology 85: 409-418.
Sachs, T. and A. Novoplansky (1997) What
does aclonal organization suggest concerning clonal
plants? in de Kroon, H. and J. van Groenendael
(eds.) The Ecology and Evolution of Clonal Growth in Plants, pp. 55-78, SPB
Academic Publishing, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Novoplansky, A. and D. Cohen (1997) The mutual distribution of
competing root systems: a stationary model, in A. Altman and Y. Waisel (eds.), Biology of Root formation and Development,
pp. 353-364, Plenum, New-York, N.Y.
Feuermann, D.
and A. Novoplansky (1998) Reversible low heat gain windows for energy
savings. Solar Energy Journal
62(3): 169-175.
Novoplansky, A. and D. Goldberg (2001), Effects of water pulsing
on individual performance and competition hierarchies in plants. Journal of Vegetation Science 12:
199-208. PDF
Novoplansky, A. (2002) Phenotypic
plasticity in plants: Implications of non-cognitive behavior. Evolutionary Ecology
16(3): 177-188. PDF
Falik, O., P. Raides, M. Gersani, and A. Novoplansky (2003) Self/nonself
discrimination in roots, Journal of Ecology 91: 525-531. PDF
Elli Groner and Ariel Novoplansky (2003) Reconsidering
diversity-productivity relationships in plants and animals: trophic levels
matter, Ecology Letters 6: 695-699. PDF
Novoplansky, A. (2003) Ecological implications of the
determination of branch hierarchies, New Phytologist 160: 111-118. PDF
Sher, A., Goldberg, D., Novoplansky, A. (2004) The effect of mean and variance in resource supply on
survival of annuals from Mediterranean and desert environments. Oecologia 141: 353-362. PDF
Chesson, P., Gebauer, R. L.
E., Sher, A., Schwinning,
S., Wiegand, K., Ernest, M. S. K., Huntly, N., Novoplansky, A., and Weltzin,
J. F. (2004) Resource pulses, species interactions and diversity maintenance in
arid and semi-arid environments, Oecologia
141: 236-253. PDF
Gruntman, M. and Novoplansky, A. (2004) Physiologically-mediated
self/nonself discrimination in roots, Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences USA 101: 3863-3867. PDF
Shilo-Volin, H., A. Novoplansky, D. Goldberg and R. Turkington (2005) Density regulation in annual plant communities
under variable resource levels, Oikos 108:
241-252. PDF
Falik, O., Reides, P., Gersani, M. and Novoplansky, A. (2005) Root navigation by
self inhibition, Plant Cell & Environment 28: 562-569. PDF
Lortie, C. J., Ellis, E., Novoplansky, A. and Turkington, R. (2005)
Implications of spatial pattern of local density on community-level
interactions, Oikos 109: 495-502. PDF
Herben, T. and Novoplansky, A. (2008) Implications of self/nonself
discrimination for spatial patterning of clonal plants, Evolutionary Ecology,
22:
331-350.
Novoplansky, A.
(2009) Picking battles wisely: plant behaviour under
competition. Plant, cell & environment 32: 726-41.
Shemesh, H., Arbiv, A., Gersani, M., Ovadia, O. and Novoplansky, A. (2010) The Effects of
Nutrient Dynamics on Root Patch Choice. PLoS
ONE 5(5): e10824.
Herben, T. and Novoplansky, A. (2010) Fight
or flight: plastic behavior under self-generated heterogeneity, Evolutionary
Ecology 24: 1521-1536.
Gruntman,
M. and Novoplansky, A. (2011) Implications of local-scale productivity on
compensative regeneration in a semi-arid grassland, Journal of Arid
Environments, 75: 279-283.
Shemesh, H. Rosen,
R. Tunes, G., Novoplansky, A. and Ovadia, O. (2011) The effect of steepness of temporal resource gradients on
spatial root allocation. Plant Signaling and behavior 6: 1356-1360.
Gruntman, M. Shirata, C. and Novoplansky, A. (2011) Plasticity
in apical dominance and damage tolerance under variable resource availability
in Medicago truncatula.
Plant Ecology 212: 1537-1548.
Shemesh
H., Ovadia O. and Novoplansky, A. Context-dependent
responses to herbivore saliva. (2011), Plant Ecology
213: 167-174.
Gruntman,
M. and Novoplansky, A. (2011) Ontogenetic contingency of tolerance mechanisms
in response to apical damage. Annals of Botany 108: 965-973.
Falik, O.,
Mordoch, Y., Quansah, L., Fait, A. and Novoplansky,
A. (2011) Rumor has it...: relay communication of stress cues in plants, PLoS ONE, e23625 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023625.
Falik, O.,
Mordoch, Y., Ben-Natan, D., Vanunu,
M., Goldstein, O. and Ariel Novoplansky (2012) Plant responsiveness to
root-root communication of stress cues, Annals of Botany, 110: 271-80.
Arbiv, A., Khokhlova,
I.S., Ovadia, O., Novoplansky, A. and Krasnov, B.R. (2012) Use it or lose it: reproductive
implications of ecological specialization in a haematophagous
ectoparasite, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25:
1140–1148.
Shemesh, H. and
Novoplansky, A. Branching the risks: architectural
plasticity in the face of environmental uncertainty. Plant Biology, In press.
Prospective students
Students
interested in pursuing questions related to phenotypic plasticity,
communication, behavior, learning and memory in plants are welcome to contact
us for more details.
● Phenotypic plasticity in plants: consequences
of non-cognitive behavior, Sede-Boker,
1998
● Biodiversity in Drylands: towards a unified
framework and identification of research needs, 1999
● Camp Evolution, conference on sympatric speciation and
evolution of sex, 2005
● Physiological and ecological aspects of responses to internal and
environmental cues, XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna, 2005
● Camp Evolution II, workshop on Evolutionary and Ecological
Genomics, 2006
● Camp Evolution III, workshop on Human Evolutionary Genetics,
2007
● Evolution of Desert Environments, 2007
● Camp Evolution IV, Unsolved Problems in Evolutionary Biology,
2008
● TEDxJaffa A short popular talk on plant communication and
learning
● The New York Times Michael
Marder ponders about plant sentience
● Haaretz
Asaf Shtull-Trauring writes about plant communication
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