Restoration and Rehabilitation of Desert Ecosystems - Session 2
Convener: Oded Berger-Tal, BIDR
Deserts ecosystems contain some of the most unique biomes and species on Earth, making their conservation a high priority. However, decades of treating deserts as “non-important” wastelands have led to many large-scale human disturbances in desert environments. These include open mining, oil and toxic waste pollution, failed agricultural attempts, off-road vehicle use, and grazing by non-native herbivores. Depending on their type and severity, these disturbances can reduce the abundance of native species, alter soil properties, diminish ecosystem services for humans, and create hazards to humans such as blowing dust from eroded soils
The extreme environmental conditions that characterize deserts’ environments pose unique challenges to the restoration and rehabilitation of desert ecosystems. In this double session we will present and discuss the challenges, successes and failures of restoration projects in desert environments from two complementary perspectives: projects concentrating on restoring and rehabilitating desert species (session 1), and projects concentrating at restoring and rehabilitating desert biomes (session 2).
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- Restoration and Rehabilitation of Desert Ecosystems - Session 2
1. Prof. Matthew Bowker
Establishing Biocrusts to Rehabilitate Drylands: Some Obstacles and Possible Paths Forward
Northern Arizona University, USA
- Restoration and Rehabilitation of Desert Ecosystems - Session 2
2. Dr. Tal Polak
In Situ Soil Bioremediation to Counter Oil Spill in a Hyper-arid Nature Reserve
Israeli Nature and Park Authority, Israel
- Restoration and Rehabilitation of Desert Ecosystems - Session 2
3. Prof. Merav Seifan
Between a Wild Ass and a Hard Place – The Combined Effect of Large Herbivores and Arid Conditions on the Composition of Desert Vegetation
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- Restoration and Rehabilitation of Desert Ecosystems - Session 2
4. Prof. Yaron Ziv
Studying Reclamation-Oriented Mining of Phosphate in the Negev Desert
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- Restoration and Rehabilitation of Desert Ecosystems - Session 2
5. Dr. Ilan Stavi
Geodiversity Enhances Resilience of Dryland Ecosystems to Climatic Change
Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Israel