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Lab publications 

For Oded's publications prior to 2018, see here

PDF versions of published writings are provided as reprints – one copy only for your personal use.

  1. Vardi, R., A. Soriano-Redondo, J.S. Gutierrez, L. Dylewski, Z. Jagiello, P. Mikula. O. Berger-Tal, D.T. Blumstein, I. Jaric and V. Sbragaglia. (2024). Leveraging social media and other online data to study animal behavior. PLoS Biology, 22:e3002793. [pdf reprint]  

  2. Sabo, A.N., O. Berger-Tal, D.T. Blumstein, A.L. Greggor & J.P. Swaddle. (2024). Conservation practitioners’ and researchers’ needs for bridging the knowledge-action gap. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 5:1415127. [pdf reprint]

  3. Zukerman, Y., A. Arnon, U. Roll, & O. Berger-Tal (2024). Avoiding visitors to a protected area increases predation risk for the endangered mountain gazelle. People & Nature, 6:1581-1591. [pdf reprint]

  4. Berger-Tal, O., B.B.M. Wong, C.A. Adams, D.T. Blumstein, U. Candolin, M.J. Gibson, M. Lagisz, B. Macura, C.J. Price, B.J. Putman, L. Snijders, & S. Nakagawa (2024). Leveraging AI to improve evidence synthesis in conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 39:548-557. [pdf reprint]

  5. Oswald, K., O. Berger-Tal & U. Roll (2024). Small-scale land-use changes reduce breeding success in a desert-living cooperative breeding bird. Behavioral Ecology, 35:arae023. [pdf reprint]

  6. Reznikov, K., R. Efrat, O. Berger-Tal, & N. Sapir (2024). The spatiotemporal properties of artificial feeding schemes influence the post-fledgling movement of Egyptian vultures. Ornithological Applications, duae010. [pdf reprint]

  7. Zukerman, Y. & O. Berger-Tal. (2024). Exposure of Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) to humans reduces their behavioral responses to potential threats. People & Nature, 6:562-572. [pdf reprint]

  8. Lehnardt, Y., J.R. Barber & O. Berger-Tal. (2024). Effects of wind turbine noise on songbird behavior during nonbreeding season. Conservation Biology, 38:e14188. [pdf reprint]

  9. Efrat, R., O. Hatzofe, T. Mueller, N. Sapir & O. Berger-Tal. (2023). Early and accumulated experiences shape migration and flight in Egyptian vultures. Current Biology, 33:1-7. [pdf reprint]

  10. Segev, N., E. Groner, A. Bouskila, & O. Berger-Tal. (2023). Can microhabitat preferences of ground-dwelling insects be a good indicator for terrestrial ecosystem recovery after an oil-spill? Journal of Insect Conservation, 27:947-959. [pdf reprint]

  11. Lehnardt, Y., T. Klein, J.R. Barber & O. Berger-Tal. (2023). Experimentally broadcasted wind-turbine sound drastically alters songbirds’ habitat selection and vocal communication in a natural environment. Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023. [pdf reprint]

  12. Gofer, S., T. Nassi, O. Berger-Tal & A. Bouskila. (2023). Thermal conditions determine lizards' response to oil contamination in a desert habitat, iScience, 26:107411. [pdf reprint]

  13. van Dooren, T., C.J. Price, P.B. Banks, O. Berger-Tal, M. Chrulew, J. Johnson, G. Lajeunesse, K.E. Lynch, C. McArthur, F.C.G. Pitcher, C.C. St. Claire, G. Ward-Fear, S. Widin, B.B.M. Wong & D.T. Blumstein. (2023). The ethics of intervening in animal behavior for conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 38:822-830. Winner of the Elsevier ATLAS award. [pdf reprint]

  14. Hertel, A.G., R. Efrat, K. Reznikov, N. Sapir, O. Berger-Tal & T. Mueller. (2023). Time constraints may pace the ontogeny of movement behavior. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290:20222429. [pdf reprint]

  15. Teff-Seker, Y., O. Berger-Tal, Y. Lehnardt & N. Teschner. (2022). Noise pollution from wind turbines and its effects on wildlife: a cross-national analysis of current policies and planning regulations. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 168:112801. [pdf reprint]

  16. Bar-Ziv, E., S. Picardi, A. Kaplan, T. Avgar & O. Berger-Tal. (2022). Sex differences dictate the movement patterns of striped hyenas, Hyaena hyaena, in a human-dominated landscape. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10:897132. [pdf reprint]

  17. Berger-Tal, O., D. Saltz, K.E. Moseby & P.J. Seddon. (2022). Editorial: animal behavior after translocation into novel environments. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 3:888125. [pdf reprint]

  18. Vardi, R. & O. Berger-Tal. (2022). Environmental variability as a predictor of behavioral flexibility in urban environments. Behavioral Ecology, 33:573-581. [pdf reprint]

  19. Avgar, T. & O. Berger-Tal. (2022). Biased learning as a simple adaptive foraging mechanism. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9:759133. [pdf reprint]

  20. Efrat R., O. Hatzofe, T. Miller, T. Mueller, N. Sapir & O. Berger-Tal. (2022). Postrelease survival of captive-bred Egyptian Vultures is similar to that of wild-hatched Egyptian Vultures and is not affected by release age or season. Ornithological Applications, 124:1-10. [pdf reprint]

  21. Zukerman, Y., Z. Sigal & O. Berger-Tal. (2021). COVID-19 restrictions in a nature reserve reveal the costs of human presence for the threatened Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9:751515. [pdf reprint]

  22. Maor-Cohen, M., S. Bar-David, A. Dolev, O. Berger-Tal, D. Saltz & O. Spiegel. (2021). Settling in: Reintroduced Persian fallow deer adjust the borders and habitats of their home-range during the first five years post release. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2:733703. [pdf reprint]

  23. Dulsat-Masvidal, M., R. Lourenco, S. Lacorte, M. D'Amico, T. Albayrak, J. Andevski, A. Aradis, E. Baltag, O. Berger-Tal, et al., (2021). A review of constraints and solutions for collecting raptor samples and contextual data for a European Raptor Biomonitoring Facility. Science of the Total Environment, 793:148599 [pdf reprint]

  24. Bates, A.E., R.B. Primack & Additional 338 authors (including four lab members) (2021). Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment. Biological Conservation, 263:109175 [pdf reprint]

  25. Greggor, A., Berger-Tal, O., Swaisgood, R.R., Cooke, S., DeVault, T., Fernandez-Juricic, E., Gienapp, A., Hall, S., Hostetter, C., Owen, M., Rankin, S., Ruppert, K., Swaddle, J. & Blumstein, D.T. (2021). Using Change models to envision better applications of animal behavior research in conservation management and beyond. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2:653056 [pdf reprint]

  26. Buechley, E., Oppel, S., Efrat, R., Phipps, L., Carbonell, I., Alvarez, E., Andreotti, A., Arkumarev, V., Berger-Tal, O., et al. (2021). Migration costs depend on age and geography in a soaring migratory bird. Journal of Animal Ecology , 90:1228-1238 [pdf reprint]

  27. Vardi, R., Berger-Tal, O. & Roll, U. (2021). iNaturalist insights illuminate COVID-19 effects on large mammals in urban centers. Biological Conservation, 254:108953 [pdf reprint]

  28. Efrat, R., Hatzofe, O., Miller, Y. & Berger-Tal, O. (2020). Determinants of survival in captive-bred Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus after their release to the wild. Conservation Science and Practice, 2:e308 [pdf reprint]

  29. Geffroy B., Sadoul, B., Putman, P.J., Berger-Tal, O., Garamszegi. L.Z., Moller, A.P & Blumstein, D.T. (2020). Evolutionary dynamics in the Anthropocene: life history and intensity of human contact shape antipredator responses. PLoS Biology, 18:e3000818 [pdf reprint]

  30. Greggor A., Berger-Tal, O. & Blumstein. D.T. (2020). The rules of attraction: the necessary role of animal cognition in explaining conservation failures and successes. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, 51:483-503 [pdf reprint].

  31. Efrat, R., Hatzofe, O. & Berger-Tal, O. (2020). Translating large-scale prioritization models for vultures to local-scale decision-making. Conservation Biology , 34:1305-1307 [pdf reprint].

  32. Vardi, R., Goulet, C.T., Matthews, G., Berger-Tal, O., Wong, B.B.M. & Chapple, D.G. (2020). Spatial learning in captive and wild-born lizards: heritability and environmental effects. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74:23 [pdf reprint]

  33. Lehnardt, Y.,  Wong, B.B.M. & Berger-Tal, O. (2019). Intraspecific variation in animal responses to anthropogenic noise through long-term monitoring. A comment on Harding et al.  Behavioral Ecology , 30:1514-1515 [pdf reprint].

  34. Phipps, W.L., Lopez-Lopez, P., Buechley, E., Oppel, S., Alvarez, E., Arkumarev, V., Bekmansurove, R., Berger-Tal, O., ... Efrat, R., et al. (2019). Spatial and temporal variability in migration of a soaring raptor across three continents. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution,  7:323 [pdf reprint]

  35. Berger-Tal O., Swaisgood, R.R. & Blumstein, D.T. (2019). Conservation translocations: A review of common difficulties and promising directions. Animal Conservation, 23:121-131 [pdf reprint]. 

  36. Segev, N., Gavish-Regev, E. & Berger-Tal, O. (2019) Sit-and-wait prey: first field observations of scorpions preying on antlions (Neuroptera). Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution, 66:57-62 [pdf reprint].  

  37. Berger-Tal, O. & Saltz, D. (2019). Invisible barriers generated by anthropogenic impacts on inter- and intra-specific interactions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374:20180049 [pdf reprint]. 

  38. Berger-Tal O., Wong, B.B.M., Candolin, U. & Barber, J. (2019). What evidence exists on the effects of anthropogenic noise on acoustic communication in animals? A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence, 8:18 [pdf reprint]. 

  39. Greggor, A.L., Blumstein, D.T., Wong, B.B.M. & Berger-Tal, O. (2019). Using animal behavior in conservation management: a series of systematic reviews and maps. Environmental Evidence, 8:23 [pdf reprint]. 

  40. Greenbaum, G., Fogarty, L., Colleran, H., Berger-Tal, O., Kolondy, O. & Creanza, N. (2019). Are both necessity and opportunity the mothers of innovations? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42:e199. 

  41. Berger-Tal, O., Greggor, A.L., Macura, B. Adams, C.A., Blumenthal, A., Bouskila, A., Candolin, U., Doran, C., Gotanda, K., Price, C., Putman, B., Segoli, M., Snijders, L.,  Wong, B.B.M. & Blumstein, D.T. (2018). Systematic evidence synthesis as part of a larger process: a response to comments on Berger-Tal et al. Behavioral Ecology, 30:14-15 [pdf reprint]. 

  42. Saltz D., Berger-Tal, O., Motro, U., Shkedy, Y.  & Raanan, N. (2018). Conservation implications of habituation in Nubian ibex in response to ecotourism. Animal Conservation, 22:220-227 [pdf reprint]. 

  43. Berger-Tal, O., Greggor, A.L., Macura, B. Adams, C.A., Blumenthal, A., Bouskila, A., Candolin, U., Doran, C., Gotanda, K., Price, C., Putman, B., Segoli, M., Snijders, L.,  Wong, B.B.M. & Blumstein, D.T. (2018). Systematic reviews and maps as tools for applying behavioral ecology to management and policy. Behavioral Ecology, 30:1-8 [pdf reprint].

  44. Roll, U. & Berger-Tal, O. (2018). Gritty until proven irritant. What makes a species invasive? Comment on Cassinello (2018). Conservation Letters, 
          11:e12597 [pdf reprint].

  45. Berger-Tal, O. & Lahoz-Monfort, J. (2018). Conservation technology: the next generation. Conservation Letters, 11:e12458 [pdf reprint]. 

  46. Roll, U., Iwamura, T. & Berger-Tal, O. (2018). National conservation science conferences as a means of bridging conservation science and practice. Conservation Biology, 32:1200-1202 [pdf reprint].

  47. Roll, U., Correia, R.A. & Berger-Tal, O. (2018). Using machine learning to disentangle homonyms in large text corpora. Conservation Biology, 32:716-724 [pdf reprint]. 




     
     

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