Publications
66. Yebra, M., et al. (2024) Globe-LFMC 2.0. An enhanced and updated database for Live Fuel Moisture Content research. Scientific Data 11:332. [link]
65. Lavi, R., Bar-Massada, A., Dovrat, G. (2024) Utilizing treated wastewater for pasture irrigation: effects on productivity, plant community structure and soil
properties. Grass and Forage Science. In press. [link]
64. Burton, A.C., Beirne, C., Gaynor, K., Sun, C., Granados, A., Kays, R. et al. (2024) Mammal responses to pandemic-related changes in human activity are
shaped by landscape and diet. Nature Ecology and Evolution. In press. [link]
63. Ochoa, C., Bar-Massada, A., Chuvieco, E. (2024) A European-scale analysis reveals the complex roles of anthropogenic and climatic factors in driving the
initiation of large wildfires. Science of the Total Environment 917:170443 [link]
62. Denneboom, D., Bar-Massada, A., Shwartz, A. (2023) Wildlife mortality risk posed by high and low traffic roads. Conservation Biology, 38:e14159. [link]
61. Tikotzki, I., Bar-Massada, A., Levin, N. (2023) A geographically flexible approach for mapping the Wildland-Urban Interface integrating fire activity data.
Frontiers in Environmental Science 11:1231490. [link]
60. Schug, F., Bar-Massada, A., Carlson, A., Cox, H., Hawbaker, T.J., Helmers, D., Hostert, P., Kaim, D., Kasraee, N.K., Martinuzzi, S., Mockrin, M.H., Pfoch, K.A.,
Radeloff, V.C. (2023) The global Wildland-Urban Interface. Nature 621:94-99. [link]
59. Bar-Massada, A., Alcasena, F., Schug, F., Radeloff, V.C. (2023) The Wildland – Urban Interface in Europe: spatial patterns and associations with
socioeconomic and demographic variables. Landscape and Urban Planning 235:7459. [link]
58. Yuval, M., Pearl, N., Tchernov, D., Loya, Y., Bar-Massada, A., Treibitz, T. (2023) Assessment of storm impact on coral reef structural complexity. Science of
the Total Environment 891:164493. [link]
57. Chuvieco, E., Yebra, M., Martino, S., Thonicke, K., Gómez-Giménez, M., San-Miguel, J., Oom, D., Velea, R., Mouillot, F., Molina, J.R., Miranda, A.I., Lopes, D.,
Salis, M., Bugaric, M., Sofiev, M., Kadantsev, E., Gitas, I.Z., Stavrakoudis, D., Eftychidis, G., Bar-Massada, A., Neidermeier, A., Pampanoni, V., Pettinari, M.L.,
Arrogante-Funes, F., Ochoa, C., Moreira, B., Viegas, D. (2023) Towards an Integrated Approach to Wildfire Risk Assessment: When, Where, What and How
May the Landscapes Burn. Fire 6:215. [link]
56. Talbi, R., Gavish, Y., Izhaki, I., Bar-Massada, A. (2023) When a pest-control species becomes a pest: a shift in the foraging habitat of cattle egret (Bubulcus
ibis) and the threat to grazed natural ecosystems. Biological Conservation 282:110067. [link]
55. Guk, E., Bar-Massada, A., Levin, N. (2023) Constructing a comprehensive national wildfire database from incomplete sources: Israel as a case study. Fire
6:131. [link]
54. Gavish, Y., Wood, E.M., Martinuzzi, S., Pidgeon, A.M., Bar-Massada, A. (2021) Effects of bird species-level environmental preference on landscape-level
richness-heterogeneity relationships. Basic and Applied Ecology 56: 1-13. [link]
53. Bar-Massada, A. (2021) A comparative analysis of two major approaches for mapping the Wildland-Urban Interface: a case study in California. Land
10:679. [link]
52. Bates, A.E., Primack, R.B., PAN-Environment Working Group (2021) Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the
environment. Biological Conservation 263:1090175 [link]
51. Gerovichev, A., Sviri, A., Winter, V., Bar-Massada, A., Keasar, T., Keasar, C. (2021) High throughput data acquisition and deep learning for insect
ecoinformatics. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:600931. [link]
50. Denneboom, D., Bar-Massada, A., Shwartz, A. (2021) Factors affecting usage of crossing structures by wildlife – a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Science of the Total Environment 777:146061. [link]
49. Bar-Massada, A., Lebrija-Trejos, E. (2021) Spatial and temporal dynamics of live fuel moisture content in eastern Mediterranean woodlands are driven by an
interaction between climate and community structure. International Journal of Wildland Fire 30:190-196. [link]
48. Bar-Massada, A., Sviri, A. (2020) Utilizing Vegetation and Environmental New Micro Spacecraft (VENµS) data to estimate live fuel moisture content in Israel's
Mediterranean ecosystems. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing 13:3204-3212. [link]
47. Friedemann, G., Leshem, Y., McClain K.M., Bohrer, G., Bar-Massada, A., Izhaki, I. (2020) Poleward non-breeding migration of a breeding population:
Challenging the traditional perspective of avian migration. Journal of Avian Biology 51:e02362. [link]
46. Shen, G., Yan, E., Bar-Massada, A., Zhang, J., Liu, H., Wang, X. (2019) Species with moderate intraspecific trait variability are locally abundant within an
environmentally heterogeneous subtropical forest. Oecologia 190:629-637. [link]
45. Bernheim, M., Shanas,U., Bar-Massada, A. (2019) Soil type impacts macrohabitat selection and spatiotemporal activity patterns of Testudo graeca in an
eastern mediterranean ecosystem. Copeia 107:332-340. [link]
44. Milavski, R., Ne’eman, G., Bar-Massada, A., Ben-Shlomo, R. (2019) The genetic composition of Aleppo pine at Mt. Carmel, as a basis for conservation policy.
Ecology & Environment 1:38-45 (in Hebrew).
43. Bar-Massada, A., Ives, A.R., Butsic, V. (2019) A mathematical partitioning of the effects of habitat loss and habitat degradation on species abundance.
Landscape Ecology 34:9-15. [link]
42. Pereira, J.M.C., Alexandre, P.M., Campagnolo, M.L., Bar-Massada, A., Radeloff, V.C., Silva, P.C. (2018). Defining and mapping the wildland-urban interface in
Portugal. In: Advances in Forest Fire Research 2018. Viegas, D.X. (ed.). Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
41. Shamoon, H., Cain, S., Shanas, U., Bar-Massada, A., Shapira, I. (2018) Spatio-temporal activity patterns of mammals in an agro-ecological mosaic with
seasonal recreation activities. European Journal of Wildlife Research 64:35. [link]
40. Bar-Massada, A., Yang, Q., Shen, G., Wang, X. (2018) Tree species co-occurrence patterns change across grains: insights from a subtropical forest. Ecosphere
e02213. [link]
39. Radeloff, V.C., Helmers, D.P., Kramer, H.A., Mockrin, M.H., Alexandre, P.M., Bar-Massada, A., Butsic, V., Hawbaker, T.J., Martinuzzi, S., Syphard, A.D.,
Stewart, S.I. (2018) Rapid growth of the U.S. Wildland Urban Interface raises wildfire risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115:3314-3319.
[link]
38. Friedemann, G., Leshem, Y., Kerem, L., Bar-Massada, A., Izhaki, I. (2017) Nest site characteristics, breeding success and competitive interactions between
two recently sympatric apex predators. Ibis 159:812-827. [link]
37. Carmel, Y., Suprunenko, Y., Kunin, W., Kent, R., Belmaker, J., Bar-Massada, A., Cornell, S.J. (2017) Using exclusion rate to unify niche and neutral perspectives
on coexistence. Oikos 126:1451-1458. [link]
36. Bar-Massada, A., Belmaker, J. (2017) Non-stationarity in the co-occurrence patterns of species across environmental gradients. Journal of Ecology
105:391-399. [link]
35. Bar-Massada, A., Hadar, L. (2017) Grazing and temporal turnover in herbaceous communities in a Mediterranean landscape. Journal of Vegetation Science
28:270-280. [link]
34. Kishinevsky, M., Keasar, T., Bar-Massada, A. (2017) Parasitoid abundance on plants: effects of host abundance, plant species and plant flowering state.
Arthropod Plant Interactions 11:155-161. [link]
33. Bashan, D., Bar-Massada, A. (2017) Regeneration dynamics of woody vegetation in a Mediterranean landscape under different disturbance-based
management treatments. Applied Vegetation Science 20:106-114. [link]
32. Arganaraz, J., Radeloff, V.C., Bar-Massada, A., Gavier-Pozarro, G.I., Scavuzzo, C.M., Bellis, L.M. (2017) Assessing wildfire exposure in the wildland-urban
interface areas of the mountains of central Argentina. Journal of Environmental Management 196:499-510. [link]
31. Butsic, V., Syphard, A.D., Keeley, J., Bar-Massada, A. (2017) Can private land conservation reduce wildfire risk to homes? A case study in San Diego County,
California. Landscape and Urban Planning 157:161-169. [link]
30. Friedemann, G., Leshem, Y., Kerem, L., Shacham, B., Bar-Massada, A., Mcclain, K., Bohrer, G., Izhaki, I. (2016) Multidimensional differentiation in foraging
resource use during breeding of two sympatric top predators. Scientific Reports 6:35031. [link]
29. Syphard, A.D., Butsic, V., Bar-Massada, A., Keeley, J., Tracey, J., Fisher, R. (2016) Setting priorities for private land conservation in fire-prone landscapes: Are
fire risk reduction and biodiversity conservation competing or compatible objectives? Ecology and Society 21:2. [link]
28. Alexandre, P.M., Stewart, S.I., Keuler, N.S., Clayton, M.K., Mockrin, M.H., Bar-Massada, A., Syphard, A.D., Radeloff, V.C. (2016) Factors related to building loss
due to wildfires in the conterminous United States. Ecological Applications 36:2323-2338. [link]
27. Alexandre, P.M., Stewart, S.I., Mockrin, M.H., Keuler, N.S., Syphard, A.D., Bar-Massada, A., Clayton, M.K., Radeloff, V.C. (2016) The relative impacts of vegetation, topography, and spatial arrangement on building loss to wildfires in case studies of California and Colorado. Landscape Ecology 31:415-430.[link]
26. Bar-Massada, A. (2015) Complex relationships between species niches and environmental heterogeneity affect species co-occurrence patterns in modelled
and real communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282:20150927. [link]
25. Bar-Massada, A. (2015) Immigration rates and species niche characteristics affect the relationship between species richness and habitat heterogeneity in
modeled meta-communities. PeerJ 3:e832. [link]
24. Orrock, J.L., Borer, E.T., Brudvig, L.A., Firn, J., MacDougall, A.S., Melbourne, B.A., Yang, L.H., Baker, D.V., Bar-Massada, A., Crawley, M.J., Damschen, E.I.,
Davies, K.F., Gruner, D.S., Kay, A.D., Lind, E., McCulley, R.L., Seabloom, E.W. (2015) A continent-wide study reveals clear relationships between regional abiotic conditions and post-dispersal seed predation. Journal of Biogeography 42:662-670. [link]
23. Samuni-Blank, M., Izhaki, I., Laviad, S., Bar-Massada, A., Halpern, M. (2014) The role of abiotic environmental conditions, geographical distance and
herbivory in shaping bacterial community composition in floral nectar. PLoS ONE 9(6):e99107. [link]
22. Kent, R., Bar-Massada, A., Carmel, Y. (2014) Bird and mammal species composition in distinct geographic regions and their relationships with environmental factors across multiple spatial scales. Ecology and Evolution 4:1963-1971. [link]
21. Bar-Massada, A., Kent, R., Carmel, Y. (2014) Environmental heterogeneity affects the location of modeled communities along the niche-neutrality
continuum. Proceedings of the Royal Society - B 281:20133249. [link]
20. Bar-Massada, A., Radeloff, V.C., Stewart, S.I. (2014) Biotic and abiotic effects of human settlements in the wildland–urban interface. BioScience 64:429-437.
[link]
19. Bar-Massada, A., Wood, E. (2014) The richness - heterogeneity relationship differs between heterogeneity measures within and among habitats. Ecography
37:528-535. (Editor's Choice) [link]
18. Syphard, A.D., Bar Massada, A., Butsic, V., Keeley, J.E. (2013) Land use planning and wildfire: Development policies influence future probability of housing
loss. PLoS ONE 8(8): e71708. [pdf]
17. Bar-Massada, A., Stewart, S.I., Hammer, R., Mockrin, M.M., Radeloff, V.C. (2013) Using structure locations as a basis for mapping the Wildland Urban Interface. Journal of Environmental Management 128:540-547. [pdf]
16. Carmel, Y., Kent, R., Bar Massada, A., Blank, L., Liberzon, J., Nezer, O., Federman, R. (2013) Trends in Ecological research during the last three decades – a systematic review. PLoS ONE 8(4): e59813. [pdf]
15. Bar Massada, A., Syphard, A.D., Stewart, S.I., Radeloff, V.C. (2013) Wildfire ignition modeling: a comparative study in the Huron-Manistee National Forest,
Michigan, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire 22:174-183. [pdf]
14. Bar Massada, A., Hawbaker, T.J., Radeloff, V.C., Stewart, S.I. (2012) Combining satellite-based fire observations and ground-based lightning detections to
identify lightning fires across the conterminous USA. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing 5:1438-1447. [pdf]
13. Syphard, A.D., Keeley, J.E., Bar Massada, A., Brennan, T., Radeloff, V.C. (2012) Housing arrangement and location determine the likelihood of housing loss due to wildfire. PLoS ONE, 7(3): e33954. [pdf]
12. Bar-Massada, A., Wood, E.M., Pidgeon, A.M., Radeloff, V.C. (2012) Complex effects of scale on the relationships of landscape pattern versus avian species richness and community structure in a woodland savanna mosaic. Ecography 35:393-411. [pdf]
11. Bar Massada, A., Kent, R., Blank, L., Carmel, Y., Perevolotsky, A., Hadar, L. (2012) Automated segmentation of vegetation structure units in a Mediterranean
landscape. International Journal of Remote Sensing 33:346-364. [pdf]
10. Kent R., Bar Massada, A., Carmel, Y. (2011) Multiscale analyses of mammal species composition – environment relationships in the contiguous USA. PloS
ONE, 6(9): e25440. [pdf]
9. Gabay, O., Perevolotsky, A., Bar Massada, A., Carmel, Y., Shachak, M. (2011) Differential effects of goat browsing on herbaceous plant community in a
two-phase mosaic. Plant Ecology 212:1643:1653. [pdf]
8. Bar Massada, A., Syphard, A.D., Radeloff, V.C., Hawbaker, T.J., Stewart, S.I. (2011) Effects of ignition location models on the burn patterns of simulated
wildfires. Environmental Modelling and Software 26:583-592. [pdf]
7. Bar Massada, A., Radeloff, V.C., Stewart, S.I. (2011) Allocating fuel breaks to optimally protect structures in the wildland-urban interface. International Journal
of Wildland Fire 20:59-68. [pdf]
6. Bar Massada, A., Radeloff, V.C. (2010) Two multi-scale contextual approaches for mapping spatial pattern. Landscape Ecology 25:711-725. [pdf]
5. Bar Massada, A., Radeloff, V.C., Stewart, S.I., Hawbaker, T.J. (2009) Wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface: a simulation study in northwestern
Wisconsin. Forest Ecology and Management 258:1990-1999. [pdf]
4. Bar Massada, A., Carmel, Y., Koniak, G., Noy-Meir, I. (2009) The effects of disturbance based management on the dynamics of Mediterranean vegetation: a
hierarchical and spatially explicit modeling approach. Ecological Modelling 220:2525-2535. [pdf]
3. Bar Massada, A., Gabay, O., Perevolotsky, A., Carmel, Y. (2008) Quantifying the effect of grazing and shrub-clearing on small scale spatial pattern of
vegetation. Landscape Ecology 23:327-339. [pdf]
2. Bar Massada, A., Carmel, Y. (2008) Incorporating output variance in local sensitivity analysis for stochastic models. Ecological Modelling 213:463-467. [pdf]
1. Bar Massada, A., Carmel, Y., Even-Tzur, G., Grunzweig, J.M., Yakir, D. (2006) Assessment of temporal changes in above-ground forest tree biomass using
aerial photographs and allometric equations. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:2585-2594. [pdf]
65. Lavi, R., Bar-Massada, A., Dovrat, G. (2024) Utilizing treated wastewater for pasture irrigation: effects on productivity, plant community structure and soil
properties. Grass and Forage Science. In press. [link]
64. Burton, A.C., Beirne, C., Gaynor, K., Sun, C., Granados, A., Kays, R. et al. (2024) Mammal responses to pandemic-related changes in human activity are
shaped by landscape and diet. Nature Ecology and Evolution. In press. [link]
63. Ochoa, C., Bar-Massada, A., Chuvieco, E. (2024) A European-scale analysis reveals the complex roles of anthropogenic and climatic factors in driving the
initiation of large wildfires. Science of the Total Environment 917:170443 [link]
62. Denneboom, D., Bar-Massada, A., Shwartz, A. (2023) Wildlife mortality risk posed by high and low traffic roads. Conservation Biology, 38:e14159. [link]
61. Tikotzki, I., Bar-Massada, A., Levin, N. (2023) A geographically flexible approach for mapping the Wildland-Urban Interface integrating fire activity data.
Frontiers in Environmental Science 11:1231490. [link]
60. Schug, F., Bar-Massada, A., Carlson, A., Cox, H., Hawbaker, T.J., Helmers, D., Hostert, P., Kaim, D., Kasraee, N.K., Martinuzzi, S., Mockrin, M.H., Pfoch, K.A.,
Radeloff, V.C. (2023) The global Wildland-Urban Interface. Nature 621:94-99. [link]
59. Bar-Massada, A., Alcasena, F., Schug, F., Radeloff, V.C. (2023) The Wildland – Urban Interface in Europe: spatial patterns and associations with
socioeconomic and demographic variables. Landscape and Urban Planning 235:7459. [link]
58. Yuval, M., Pearl, N., Tchernov, D., Loya, Y., Bar-Massada, A., Treibitz, T. (2023) Assessment of storm impact on coral reef structural complexity. Science of
the Total Environment 891:164493. [link]
57. Chuvieco, E., Yebra, M., Martino, S., Thonicke, K., Gómez-Giménez, M., San-Miguel, J., Oom, D., Velea, R., Mouillot, F., Molina, J.R., Miranda, A.I., Lopes, D.,
Salis, M., Bugaric, M., Sofiev, M., Kadantsev, E., Gitas, I.Z., Stavrakoudis, D., Eftychidis, G., Bar-Massada, A., Neidermeier, A., Pampanoni, V., Pettinari, M.L.,
Arrogante-Funes, F., Ochoa, C., Moreira, B., Viegas, D. (2023) Towards an Integrated Approach to Wildfire Risk Assessment: When, Where, What and How
May the Landscapes Burn. Fire 6:215. [link]
56. Talbi, R., Gavish, Y., Izhaki, I., Bar-Massada, A. (2023) When a pest-control species becomes a pest: a shift in the foraging habitat of cattle egret (Bubulcus
ibis) and the threat to grazed natural ecosystems. Biological Conservation 282:110067. [link]
55. Guk, E., Bar-Massada, A., Levin, N. (2023) Constructing a comprehensive national wildfire database from incomplete sources: Israel as a case study. Fire
6:131. [link]
54. Gavish, Y., Wood, E.M., Martinuzzi, S., Pidgeon, A.M., Bar-Massada, A. (2021) Effects of bird species-level environmental preference on landscape-level
richness-heterogeneity relationships. Basic and Applied Ecology 56: 1-13. [link]
53. Bar-Massada, A. (2021) A comparative analysis of two major approaches for mapping the Wildland-Urban Interface: a case study in California. Land
10:679. [link]
52. Bates, A.E., Primack, R.B., PAN-Environment Working Group (2021) Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the
environment. Biological Conservation 263:1090175 [link]
51. Gerovichev, A., Sviri, A., Winter, V., Bar-Massada, A., Keasar, T., Keasar, C. (2021) High throughput data acquisition and deep learning for insect
ecoinformatics. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:600931. [link]
50. Denneboom, D., Bar-Massada, A., Shwartz, A. (2021) Factors affecting usage of crossing structures by wildlife – a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Science of the Total Environment 777:146061. [link]
49. Bar-Massada, A., Lebrija-Trejos, E. (2021) Spatial and temporal dynamics of live fuel moisture content in eastern Mediterranean woodlands are driven by an
interaction between climate and community structure. International Journal of Wildland Fire 30:190-196. [link]
48. Bar-Massada, A., Sviri, A. (2020) Utilizing Vegetation and Environmental New Micro Spacecraft (VENµS) data to estimate live fuel moisture content in Israel's
Mediterranean ecosystems. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing 13:3204-3212. [link]
47. Friedemann, G., Leshem, Y., McClain K.M., Bohrer, G., Bar-Massada, A., Izhaki, I. (2020) Poleward non-breeding migration of a breeding population:
Challenging the traditional perspective of avian migration. Journal of Avian Biology 51:e02362. [link]
46. Shen, G., Yan, E., Bar-Massada, A., Zhang, J., Liu, H., Wang, X. (2019) Species with moderate intraspecific trait variability are locally abundant within an
environmentally heterogeneous subtropical forest. Oecologia 190:629-637. [link]
45. Bernheim, M., Shanas,U., Bar-Massada, A. (2019) Soil type impacts macrohabitat selection and spatiotemporal activity patterns of Testudo graeca in an
eastern mediterranean ecosystem. Copeia 107:332-340. [link]
44. Milavski, R., Ne’eman, G., Bar-Massada, A., Ben-Shlomo, R. (2019) The genetic composition of Aleppo pine at Mt. Carmel, as a basis for conservation policy.
Ecology & Environment 1:38-45 (in Hebrew).
43. Bar-Massada, A., Ives, A.R., Butsic, V. (2019) A mathematical partitioning of the effects of habitat loss and habitat degradation on species abundance.
Landscape Ecology 34:9-15. [link]
42. Pereira, J.M.C., Alexandre, P.M., Campagnolo, M.L., Bar-Massada, A., Radeloff, V.C., Silva, P.C. (2018). Defining and mapping the wildland-urban interface in
Portugal. In: Advances in Forest Fire Research 2018. Viegas, D.X. (ed.). Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
41. Shamoon, H., Cain, S., Shanas, U., Bar-Massada, A., Shapira, I. (2018) Spatio-temporal activity patterns of mammals in an agro-ecological mosaic with
seasonal recreation activities. European Journal of Wildlife Research 64:35. [link]
40. Bar-Massada, A., Yang, Q., Shen, G., Wang, X. (2018) Tree species co-occurrence patterns change across grains: insights from a subtropical forest. Ecosphere
e02213. [link]
39. Radeloff, V.C., Helmers, D.P., Kramer, H.A., Mockrin, M.H., Alexandre, P.M., Bar-Massada, A., Butsic, V., Hawbaker, T.J., Martinuzzi, S., Syphard, A.D.,
Stewart, S.I. (2018) Rapid growth of the U.S. Wildland Urban Interface raises wildfire risk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115:3314-3319.
[link]
38. Friedemann, G., Leshem, Y., Kerem, L., Bar-Massada, A., Izhaki, I. (2017) Nest site characteristics, breeding success and competitive interactions between
two recently sympatric apex predators. Ibis 159:812-827. [link]
37. Carmel, Y., Suprunenko, Y., Kunin, W., Kent, R., Belmaker, J., Bar-Massada, A., Cornell, S.J. (2017) Using exclusion rate to unify niche and neutral perspectives
on coexistence. Oikos 126:1451-1458. [link]
36. Bar-Massada, A., Belmaker, J. (2017) Non-stationarity in the co-occurrence patterns of species across environmental gradients. Journal of Ecology
105:391-399. [link]
35. Bar-Massada, A., Hadar, L. (2017) Grazing and temporal turnover in herbaceous communities in a Mediterranean landscape. Journal of Vegetation Science
28:270-280. [link]
34. Kishinevsky, M., Keasar, T., Bar-Massada, A. (2017) Parasitoid abundance on plants: effects of host abundance, plant species and plant flowering state.
Arthropod Plant Interactions 11:155-161. [link]
33. Bashan, D., Bar-Massada, A. (2017) Regeneration dynamics of woody vegetation in a Mediterranean landscape under different disturbance-based
management treatments. Applied Vegetation Science 20:106-114. [link]
32. Arganaraz, J., Radeloff, V.C., Bar-Massada, A., Gavier-Pozarro, G.I., Scavuzzo, C.M., Bellis, L.M. (2017) Assessing wildfire exposure in the wildland-urban
interface areas of the mountains of central Argentina. Journal of Environmental Management 196:499-510. [link]
31. Butsic, V., Syphard, A.D., Keeley, J., Bar-Massada, A. (2017) Can private land conservation reduce wildfire risk to homes? A case study in San Diego County,
California. Landscape and Urban Planning 157:161-169. [link]
30. Friedemann, G., Leshem, Y., Kerem, L., Shacham, B., Bar-Massada, A., Mcclain, K., Bohrer, G., Izhaki, I. (2016) Multidimensional differentiation in foraging
resource use during breeding of two sympatric top predators. Scientific Reports 6:35031. [link]
29. Syphard, A.D., Butsic, V., Bar-Massada, A., Keeley, J., Tracey, J., Fisher, R. (2016) Setting priorities for private land conservation in fire-prone landscapes: Are
fire risk reduction and biodiversity conservation competing or compatible objectives? Ecology and Society 21:2. [link]
28. Alexandre, P.M., Stewart, S.I., Keuler, N.S., Clayton, M.K., Mockrin, M.H., Bar-Massada, A., Syphard, A.D., Radeloff, V.C. (2016) Factors related to building loss
due to wildfires in the conterminous United States. Ecological Applications 36:2323-2338. [link]
27. Alexandre, P.M., Stewart, S.I., Mockrin, M.H., Keuler, N.S., Syphard, A.D., Bar-Massada, A., Clayton, M.K., Radeloff, V.C. (2016) The relative impacts of vegetation, topography, and spatial arrangement on building loss to wildfires in case studies of California and Colorado. Landscape Ecology 31:415-430.[link]
26. Bar-Massada, A. (2015) Complex relationships between species niches and environmental heterogeneity affect species co-occurrence patterns in modelled
and real communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282:20150927. [link]
25. Bar-Massada, A. (2015) Immigration rates and species niche characteristics affect the relationship between species richness and habitat heterogeneity in
modeled meta-communities. PeerJ 3:e832. [link]
24. Orrock, J.L., Borer, E.T., Brudvig, L.A., Firn, J., MacDougall, A.S., Melbourne, B.A., Yang, L.H., Baker, D.V., Bar-Massada, A., Crawley, M.J., Damschen, E.I.,
Davies, K.F., Gruner, D.S., Kay, A.D., Lind, E., McCulley, R.L., Seabloom, E.W. (2015) A continent-wide study reveals clear relationships between regional abiotic conditions and post-dispersal seed predation. Journal of Biogeography 42:662-670. [link]
23. Samuni-Blank, M., Izhaki, I., Laviad, S., Bar-Massada, A., Halpern, M. (2014) The role of abiotic environmental conditions, geographical distance and
herbivory in shaping bacterial community composition in floral nectar. PLoS ONE 9(6):e99107. [link]
22. Kent, R., Bar-Massada, A., Carmel, Y. (2014) Bird and mammal species composition in distinct geographic regions and their relationships with environmental factors across multiple spatial scales. Ecology and Evolution 4:1963-1971. [link]
21. Bar-Massada, A., Kent, R., Carmel, Y. (2014) Environmental heterogeneity affects the location of modeled communities along the niche-neutrality
continuum. Proceedings of the Royal Society - B 281:20133249. [link]
20. Bar-Massada, A., Radeloff, V.C., Stewart, S.I. (2014) Biotic and abiotic effects of human settlements in the wildland–urban interface. BioScience 64:429-437.
[link]
19. Bar-Massada, A., Wood, E. (2014) The richness - heterogeneity relationship differs between heterogeneity measures within and among habitats. Ecography
37:528-535. (Editor's Choice) [link]
18. Syphard, A.D., Bar Massada, A., Butsic, V., Keeley, J.E. (2013) Land use planning and wildfire: Development policies influence future probability of housing
loss. PLoS ONE 8(8): e71708. [pdf]
17. Bar-Massada, A., Stewart, S.I., Hammer, R., Mockrin, M.M., Radeloff, V.C. (2013) Using structure locations as a basis for mapping the Wildland Urban Interface. Journal of Environmental Management 128:540-547. [pdf]
16. Carmel, Y., Kent, R., Bar Massada, A., Blank, L., Liberzon, J., Nezer, O., Federman, R. (2013) Trends in Ecological research during the last three decades – a systematic review. PLoS ONE 8(4): e59813. [pdf]
15. Bar Massada, A., Syphard, A.D., Stewart, S.I., Radeloff, V.C. (2013) Wildfire ignition modeling: a comparative study in the Huron-Manistee National Forest,
Michigan, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire 22:174-183. [pdf]
14. Bar Massada, A., Hawbaker, T.J., Radeloff, V.C., Stewart, S.I. (2012) Combining satellite-based fire observations and ground-based lightning detections to
identify lightning fires across the conterminous USA. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing 5:1438-1447. [pdf]
13. Syphard, A.D., Keeley, J.E., Bar Massada, A., Brennan, T., Radeloff, V.C. (2012) Housing arrangement and location determine the likelihood of housing loss due to wildfire. PLoS ONE, 7(3): e33954. [pdf]
12. Bar-Massada, A., Wood, E.M., Pidgeon, A.M., Radeloff, V.C. (2012) Complex effects of scale on the relationships of landscape pattern versus avian species richness and community structure in a woodland savanna mosaic. Ecography 35:393-411. [pdf]
11. Bar Massada, A., Kent, R., Blank, L., Carmel, Y., Perevolotsky, A., Hadar, L. (2012) Automated segmentation of vegetation structure units in a Mediterranean
landscape. International Journal of Remote Sensing 33:346-364. [pdf]
10. Kent R., Bar Massada, A., Carmel, Y. (2011) Multiscale analyses of mammal species composition – environment relationships in the contiguous USA. PloS
ONE, 6(9): e25440. [pdf]
9. Gabay, O., Perevolotsky, A., Bar Massada, A., Carmel, Y., Shachak, M. (2011) Differential effects of goat browsing on herbaceous plant community in a
two-phase mosaic. Plant Ecology 212:1643:1653. [pdf]
8. Bar Massada, A., Syphard, A.D., Radeloff, V.C., Hawbaker, T.J., Stewart, S.I. (2011) Effects of ignition location models on the burn patterns of simulated
wildfires. Environmental Modelling and Software 26:583-592. [pdf]
7. Bar Massada, A., Radeloff, V.C., Stewart, S.I. (2011) Allocating fuel breaks to optimally protect structures in the wildland-urban interface. International Journal
of Wildland Fire 20:59-68. [pdf]
6. Bar Massada, A., Radeloff, V.C. (2010) Two multi-scale contextual approaches for mapping spatial pattern. Landscape Ecology 25:711-725. [pdf]
5. Bar Massada, A., Radeloff, V.C., Stewart, S.I., Hawbaker, T.J. (2009) Wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface: a simulation study in northwestern
Wisconsin. Forest Ecology and Management 258:1990-1999. [pdf]
4. Bar Massada, A., Carmel, Y., Koniak, G., Noy-Meir, I. (2009) The effects of disturbance based management on the dynamics of Mediterranean vegetation: a
hierarchical and spatially explicit modeling approach. Ecological Modelling 220:2525-2535. [pdf]
3. Bar Massada, A., Gabay, O., Perevolotsky, A., Carmel, Y. (2008) Quantifying the effect of grazing and shrub-clearing on small scale spatial pattern of
vegetation. Landscape Ecology 23:327-339. [pdf]
2. Bar Massada, A., Carmel, Y. (2008) Incorporating output variance in local sensitivity analysis for stochastic models. Ecological Modelling 213:463-467. [pdf]
1. Bar Massada, A., Carmel, Y., Even-Tzur, G., Grunzweig, J.M., Yakir, D. (2006) Assessment of temporal changes in above-ground forest tree biomass using
aerial photographs and allometric equations. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:2585-2594. [pdf]