Publications:

1. Belmaker J, Shashar N, Ziv Y (In prep) The effect of scale and species richness on the relationship between alpha, beta and gamma diversity at small spatial scales: a meta-analysis.

 

2. Belmaker J, Shashar N, Ziv Y (In prep) The consequences of small-scale isolation on the demography and habitat association of a coral reef fish

 

3. Belmaker J, Shashar N, Ziv Y (In prep) Geographical divergence in the relationshop between a fish and it obligate coral host

 

4. Rahmani M, Belmaker J, Shashar N. (Submitted) Small scale isolation and fish community structure- effects of intense predation. Cybium

 

5. Kiflawi M, Belmaker J, Brokowich E, Einbinder S, Holtzman R (2007) Diversity, diversification and sampling artefacts. Ecology (in press)

 

6. Belmaker J, Ben Moshe N, Ziv Y, Shashar N (2006) Determinants of the steep species-area relationship for coral reef fishes. Coral reefs (in press)

 

7. Kiflawi M, Belmaker J, Brokowich E, Einbinder S, Holtzman R (2006) The determinants of species richness of a relatively young coral-reef ichthyofauna. Journal of Biogeography 33(7): 1289-1294

 

8. Belmaker J, Shashar N, Ziv Y (2005) Effects of small-scale isolation and predation on fish diversity on experimental reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 289:273-283.

9. Abramsky Z, Rosenzweig ML, Belmaker J, Bar A (2004) The impact of long-term continuous risk of predation on two species of gerbils. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82:464-474

Abstracts:

 

Belmaker J (In press) Scale-dependence of the relationship between local and regional diversity: a meta-analysis on coral reef fishes. Israel Journal of Zoology

 

Belmaker J (2004) Isolation modifies the impact of piscivores on fish assemblages of small reefs. Israel Journal of Zoology 50:102

 

Altstein O, Lemberger V, Vidan E, Belmaker J, Shanni I, Sharir Y, Saltz D (2002) Possible impact of environmental stochasticity due to global warming on the sexually dimorphic Nubian ibex (Capra ibex nubiana) in the Negev highlands. Israel Journal of Zoology 48:162

 

Conferences and Workshops:

9.2006             International Society for Reef Studies European Meeting (Bremen, Germany)

 

12.2005           The 42nd annual meeting of the Zoological society of Israel (Rehovot, Israel).

 

6.2005             Summer course: Multivariate analysis of ecological data. Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

 

7.2004              The 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, Okinawa, Japan

6.2004              Uncertainty and Variability in Ecological Inference, Forecasting, and Decision Making - An Introduction to Modern Statistical Computation. Summer Institute at Duke University's Center on Global Change. Duke, North Carolina, USA.

12.2003            The 40th annual meeting of the Zoological society of Israel (Sde-Boker, Ben-Gurion University, Israel).

12.2003            The Red-Sea marine peace park international symposium: integration of marine science and resource management (Aqaba, Jordan).

12.2002            The 39th annual meeting of the Zoological society of Israel (Tel-Aviv, Israel).   

12.2000            The 37th annual meeting of the Zoological society of Israel (Beer-Sheva, Israel).