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Moshe Shachak
Moshe Shachak (born Moshe Charshak; 1936) is an ecologist at the Ben Gurion University. Shachak’s research focuses on ecosystem engineers, organisms that modulate the abiotic environment. Most of his studies were conducted in arid and semi arid ecosystems. Major contributions Shachak was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. In his early career, he studied desert animals and eco-hydrological processes in small desert watershed. Together with colleges he showed that herbivory of snails on cyanobacteria living inside rocks has major impacts of weathering of that rocky desert.Shachak M., Jones C. G., & Granot Y. (1987) Herbiovory in rocks and the weathering of a desert. Science 236(4805):1098-1099 This effect was found to be similar in magnitude to aeolian deposition in that area. A follow-up study showed that this herbivory has a fertilization effect which is about 11% of the nitrogen input in that system. These findings, led to the development of the concept of ecosystem engineers together ...
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Ecologist
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Ecologists
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Academic Staff Of Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev
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