Institute of Evolution and the Dept. of Evolutionary & Environmental Biology, University of Haifa

I have graduated from Leon Blaustein's lab and I am currently a postdoc at Jay Rosenheim's lab in UC Davis.

This webpage will continue to be updated with future publications resulting from my PhD work only. Please visit my page at Jay's lab website, too!

Temporary pools on Mt. Carmel serve as breeding sites and 
discrete larval habitats for the fire salamander

Risk of desiccation: salamander larvae dried to death on
 the bottom of a desiccated temporary pool

Risk of cannibalism: with the shortage of food characterizing
 temporary pools, salamander larvae often eat each other. 
Usually it is the early-deposited cohorts who cannibalize the
 smaller members of later cohorts

PHD DISSERTATION 

Sadeh A (2011) Life history strategies of organisms with complex life-cycles and temporary larval habitats: the fire salamander as a model. University of Haifa.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Sadeh A, Guterman H, Gersani M, Ovadia O (2009) Plastic bet-hedging in an amphicarpic annual: an integrated strategy under variable conditions.  Evolutionary Ecology 23:373-388

Sadeh A, Mangel M, Blaustein L (2009) Context-dependent reproductive habitat selection: the interactive roles of structural complexity and cannibalistic conspecifics. Ecology Letters, 12:1158-1164

Sadeh A, Truskanov N, Mangel M, Blaustein L (2011) Compensatory development and costs of plasticity: larval responses to desiccated conspecifics. PLoS ONE 6(1): e15602. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015602

Segev O, Mangel M, Wolf N, Sadeh A, Kershenbaum A, Blaustein L (2011) Spatio-temporal reproductive strategies in the fire salamander: a model and empirical test. Behavioral Ecology 22:670-678 

Sadeh A (in press) Kin-selective cannibalism and compensatory performance in larval salamander cohorts inhabiting temporary pools. Evolutionary Ecology Research [link]

Forthcoming manuscripts:

Sadeh A, Polevikov A, Mangel M, Blaustein L (under review) Intercohort interactions and size structure dynamics of fire salamander larvae in ephemeral pools: a mesocosm experiment.

Blank L, Sinai I, Peleg N, Segev O, Sadeh A, Bar-David S, Templeton AR, Merilä J, Blaustein L (under review) Population structure and genetic variation in contiguous and isolated periphery populations of the endangered fire salamander (Salamandra infraimmaculata).

Saward-Arav D, Sadeh A, Mangel M, Templeton AR, Blaustein L (under review) Effects of pool size and risk of predation on among-pool distribution of mosquito egg rafts: habitat preference or encounter rate?

Sadeh A, Mangel M, Blaustein L (in preperation) Ontogenetic loss of kin recognition across life stages: superoviposition behavior as a test.

CONFERENCES

Sadeh A, Guterman H (2006) Amphicarpic ratio response in Emex spinosa to intra-specific density and nutrient availability. Annual conference of the Israeli Society of Plant Sciences. Weizmann Institute, Israel (poster).

Sadeh A, Guterman H (2007) Plastic bet-hedging in an amphicarpic annual: an integrated strategy under variable conditions. Annual conference of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Weizmann Institute, Israel (poster).

Guterman H, Sadeh A (2007) Plastic bet-hedging in an amphicarpic annual: an integrated strategy under variable conditions. Ecological Society of America annual meeting. San Jose, CA (talk).

Sadeh A, Segev O, Hill N, Mangel M, Blaustein L (2007) Deposition of larvae by Salamandra salamandra: Managing risks of desiccation and competition. Ecological Society of America annual meeting. San Jose, CA (talk).

Bar-David S, Peleg N, Segev O, Hill N, Sadeh A, Templeton AR, Blaustein L (2007) Long-distance movements by fire salamanders: Integration of capture-recapture and genetic data and implications for conservation. Ecological Society of America annual meeting. San Jose, CA (talk).

Sadeh A, Mangel M, Blaustein L (2008) Larviposition responses by fire salamanders to structural complexity and risk of cannibalism. British Ecological Society annual meeting. Imperial College, UK (talk).

Sadeh A, Mangel M, Blaustein L (2009) Cannibalism, competition and the preference of larviposition habitat structural complexity in the fire salamander. Annual conference of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Weizmann Institute, Israel (talk).

Truskanov N, Blaustein L, Sadeh A (2010) Do tadpoles respond to historical death? The effects of desiccation cues on the Fire Salamander's larval development. Annual conference of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Ben-Gurion University, Israel (poster).

Sadeh A, Blaustein L, Mangel M (2010) Dynamic Ecology of the larval habitat in oviposition habitat selection theory. Annual conference of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Ben-Gurion University, Israel (talk).

Sadeh A, Truskanov N, Mangel M, Blaustein L (2010) Compensatory development and costs of plasticity: larval responses to desiccated conspecifics. Annual conference of the Israel Zoological Society. Hebrew University, Israel (talk).

Sadeh A, Polevikov A, Mangel M, Blaustein L (2011) Priority effects as a function of intercohort time interval: aggression and competition in the fire salamander. Annual conference of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Megiddo, Israel (talk).

PUBLIC MEDIA

Galileo, March 2011. The cost of accelerated development. (In Hebrew, featuring the study published in Sadeh et al. PLoS ONE 2011).

National Geographic: Israel, July 2011. The salamanders' Survivor. (In Hebrew, featuring the study published in Sadeh et al. PLoS ONE 2011).

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Community Ecology Laboratory (Room 240)
Institute of Evolution
Dept. of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology
Faculty of Natural Sciences 
University of Haifa, Haifa 31905
Israel
Phone #: +972-4-8240736

Last Updated: 6 May 2012

The website was constructed by the lab member, Asaf Sadeh