Dror Hawlena

About Dror Hawlena

Dror Hawlena, With an exceptional h-index of 22 and a recent h-index of 18 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializes in the field of Functional Ecology, Predator-Prey Interactions, Above-Belowground Interactions, Behavioral Ecology, Desert Ecosystems.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Climate dependence of the macrofaunal effect on litter decomposition—A global meta‐regression analysis

‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet

Top-down effects of crust-eating macro-arthropods on biocrust microtopography and carbon cycling

In the land of the blind: Exceptional subterranean speciation of cryptic troglobitic spiders of the genus Tegenaria (Araneae: Agelenidae) in Israel

Lizards exploit the changing optics of developing chromatophore cells to switch defensive colors during ontogeny

Prudent burrow-site selection in a landscape of fear

Differential climate dependence of microbial, mesofaunal and macrofaunal litter decomposition across a Mediterranean to hyper-arid aridity gradient

Multi-elemental consumer-driven nutrient cycling when predators feed on different prey

Dror Hawlena Information

University

Position

Associate Professor The

Citations(all)

3022

Citations(since 2020)

1398

Cited By

2192

hIndex(all)

22

hIndex(since 2020)

18

i10Index(all)

36

i10Index(since 2020)

28

Email

University Profile Page

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Dror Hawlena Skills & Research Interests

Functional Ecology

Predator-Prey Interactions

Above-Belowground Interactions

Behavioral Ecology

Desert Ecosystems

Top articles of Dror Hawlena

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Climate dependence of the macrofaunal effect on litter decomposition—A global meta‐regression analysis

Ecology Letters

Nevo Sagi

Dror Hawlena

2024/1

‘Dust you shall eat’: The complex nutritional and functional considerations underlying a simple diet

Ecology Letters

Moshe Zaguri

Irit Mogilevsky

David Raubenheimer

Dror Hawlena

2024/4

Top-down effects of crust-eating macro-arthropods on biocrust microtopography and carbon cycling

Nevo Sagi

Amir Sagy

Vincent Felde

Dror Hawlena

2024/3/7

In the land of the blind: Exceptional subterranean speciation of cryptic troglobitic spiders of the genus Tegenaria (Araneae: Agelenidae) in Israel

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Shlomi Aharon

Jesús A Ballesteros

Guilherme Gainett

Dror Hawlena

Prashant P Sharma

...

2023/6/1

Lizards exploit the changing optics of developing chromatophore cells to switch defensive colors during ontogeny

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Gan Zhang

Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada

Topaz Halperin

Avital Wagner

Michal Shemesh

...

2023/5/2

Prudent burrow-site selection in a landscape of fear

Biology Letters

Viraj R. Torsekar

Aparna Lajmi

Dror Hawlena

2023

Differential climate dependence of microbial, mesofaunal and macrofaunal litter decomposition across a Mediterranean to hyper-arid aridity gradient

EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts

Nevo Sagi

Viraj Torsekar

J Alfred Daniel

Efrat Gavish-Regev

Dror Hawlena

2023/5

Multi-elemental consumer-driven nutrient cycling when predators feed on different prey

Oecologia

Colton Herzog

Jacob T Reeves

Yetkin Ipek

Andrea Jilling

Dror Hawlena

...

2023/8

Predation risk regulates prey assortative mating by reducing the expected reproductive value of mates

Ecology

Viraj R Torsekar

Moshe Zaguri

Dror Hawlena

2023/2

Fear of predators alters herbivore regulation of soil microbial community function

Ecology and Evolution

Wei Tian

Dror Hawlena

Jordi F Pagès

Zhiwei Zhong

Deli Wang

2023/7

Contrasting responses to aridity by different-sized decomposers cause similar decomposition rates across a precipitation gradient

bioRxiv

Viraj Torsekar

Nevo Sagi

J Alfred Daniel

Yael Hawlena

Efrat Gavish-Regev

...

2023/6/5

Top-down effects on biological soil crust function

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Shelby Rinehart

Dror Hawlena

2022/10/1

Methodological limitations and conceptual implications of nutritional estimations

Oikos

Moshe Zaguri

Shani Kandel

Noa Lavie

Dror Hawlena

2022/7

Ecosystem engineering by desert macro-detritivores facilitates microbial litter decomposition

EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts

Nevo Sagi

Moshe Zaguri

Dror Hawlena

2022/5

Snail Mucus Increases the CO2 Efflux of Biological Soil Crusts

Ecosystems

S Rinehart

ND Shamir Weller

D Hawlena

2022/4

Ontogenetic color switching in lizards as a by-product of guanine cell development

bioRxiv

Gan Zhang

Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada

Michal Shemesh

Avital Wagner

Alexander Upcher

...

2022/1/12

The Middle Eastern Cousin: Comparative Venomics of Daboia palaestinae and Daboia russelii

Toxins

RR Senji Laxme

Suyog Khochare

Saurabh Attarde

Navneet Kaur

Priyanka Jaikumar

...

2022/11

Arthropods as the engine of nutrient cycling in arid ecosystems

Nevo Sagi

Dror Hawlena

2021/8/14

Soil CO2 influx in drylands: A conceptual framework and empirical examination

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Nevo Sagi

Moshe Zaguri

Dror Hawlena

2021/5/1

Protein quantification in ecological studies: a literature review and empirical comparisons of standard methodologies

Moshe Zaguri

Shani Kandel

Shelby A Rinehart

Viraj R Torsekar

Dror Hawlena

2021/7

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