Roi Maor

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew · Science

1: Determining the harvest location of timber is crucial to enforcing international regulations designed to tackle illegal logging and associated trade in forest products. However, complex supply chains obscure harvest sources, which often leaves paper-based traceability systems as the sole tool for demonstrating provenance, despite its vulnerabili...

Background: In recent decades, a decrease of passerine densities was documented in Mediterranean shrublands. At the same time, a widespread encroachment of Aleppo pines (Pinus halepensis) to Mediterranean shrubland occurred. Such changes in vegetation structure may affect passerine predator assemblage and densities, and in turn impact passerine de...

Background In recent decades, a decrease of passerine densities was documented in Mediterranean shrublands. At the same time, a widespread encroachment of Aleppo pines ( Pinus halepensis ) to Mediterranean shrubland occurred. Such changes in vegetation structure may affect passerine predator assemblage and densities, and in turn impact passerine de...

Background In recent decades, a decrease of passerine densities was documented in Mediterranean shrublands. At the same time, a widespread encroachment of Aleppo pines ( Pinus halepensis ) to Mediterranean shrubland occurred. Such changes in vegetation structure may affect passerine predator assemblage and densities, and in turn impact passerine de...

Background In recent decates, a decrease of passerine densities was documented in Mediterenean shrublands. At the same time, a widspread encroachment of Aleppo pines (Pinus halepensis) to Mediterranean shrubland occurred. Such changes in vegetation structure may effect passerine predator assemblage and densities, and in turn impact passerine densit...

Landscape conversion to agriculture is the primary cause for habitat loss worldwide. As partial mitigation, agricultural landscapes may be designated as ecological corridors due to their presumed habitability and per-meability to wildlife. Behavioral changes following anthropogenic disturbance can affect species' spatio-temporal activity patterns a...

Most modern mammals, including strictly diurnal species, exhibit sensory adaptations to nocturnal activity that are thought to be the result of a prolonged nocturnal phase or ‘bottleneck’ during early mammalian evolution. Nocturnality may have allowed mammals to avoid antagonistic interactions with diurnal dinosaurs during the Mesozoic. However, un...

A talk given a the American Society of Mammalogy 2017 meeting

Most modern mammals, including strictly diurnal species, exhibit sensory adaptations to nocturnal activity, thought to be the result of a prolonged nocturnal phase or ‘bottleneck’ during early mammalian evolution. Nocturnality may have allowed mammals to avoid antagonistic interactions with diurnal dinosaurs during the Mesozoic. However, understand...