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List of works by Tamar Dayan

Activity patterns of rodents: the physiological ecology of biological rhythms

scholarly article published in 'Biological Rhythm Research' on 2008

Adaptive thermoregulation in golden spiny mice: the influence of season and food availability on body temperature.

scientific article published on March 2011

Area, isolation and body size evolution in insular carnivores.

scientific article published in November 2005

BODY MASS OF LATE QUATERNARY MAMMALS

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Biogeographical patterns in the Western Palearctic: the fasting-endurance hypothesis and the status of Murphy's rule

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Biophysical modeling of the temporal niche: from first principles to the evolution of activity patterns

scientific article published on 25 April 2012

Body size of insular carnivores: little support for the island rule

scientific article published on 9 March 2004

Book Reviews

COEXISTING POPULATIONS OF ACOMYS CAHIRINUS AND A. RUSSATUS: A PRELIMINARY REPORT

scientific article

Character Displacement and Release in the Small Indian Mongoose, Herpestes javanicus

scientific article (publication date: August 2000)

Characteristics of the introduced fish fauna of Israel

scholarly article by Uri Roll et al published 16 January 2007 in Biological Invasions

Chronobiology by moonlight

scientific article

Community-wide character displacement in the presence of clines: a test of Holarctic weasel guilds

scientific article

Ecological and histological aspects of tail loss in spiny mice (Rodentia: Muridae, Acomys) with a review of its occurrence in rodents

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Effect of artificial night lighting on temporally partitioned spiny mice

article by Shay Rotics et al published 16 February 2011 in Journal of Mammalogy

FOCUS: on the use of the petrous bone for estimating cranial abundance in fossil assemblages

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Fitness effects of interspecific competition between two species of desert rodents

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Food, Economy, and Culture at Tel Dor, Israel: A Diachronic Study of Faunal Remains from 15 Centuries of Occupation

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Foraging Activity Pattern Is Shaped by Water Loss Rates in a Diurnal Desert Rodent.

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

Foraging sequence, energy intake and torpor: an individual-based field study of energy balancing in desert golden spiny mice

scientific article published on 21 August 2012

Gazelle exploitation in the early Neolithic site of Motza, Israel: the last of the gazelle hunters in the southern Levant

scholarly article by Lidar Sapir-Hen et al published July 2009 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Global change and carnivore body size: data are stasis

article by Shai Meiri et al published March 2009 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Human Hunting and Nascent Animal Management at Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic Yiftah'el, Israel

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Increased songbird nest depredation due to Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) encroachment in Mediterranean shrubland

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Insular carnivore biogeography: island area and mammalian optimal body size.

scientific article published on 8 March 2005

Interbasin water transfer for the rehabilitation of a transboundary Mediterranean stream: An economic analysis

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Interspecific competition and torpor in golden spiny mice: two sides of the energy-acquisition coin

scientific article published on 29 June 2011

Interspecific displacement mechanisms by the invasive little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata

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Life on the edge: carnivore body size variation is all over the place

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2009)

Light masking in the field: an experiment with nocturnal and diurnal spiny mice under semi-natural field conditions

scientific article published on February 2011

Micromammal taphonomy of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel: distinguishing cultural from natural depositional agents in the Late Natufian

scholarly article by Lior Weissbrod et al published January 2005 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Non-indigenous insect species in Israel and adjacent areas

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Non-indigenous land and freshwater gastropods in Israel

Non-indigenous terrestrial vertebrates in Israel and adjacent areas

scholarly article by Uri Roll et al published 5 September 2007 in Biological Invasions

ON THE POPULATION ECOLOGY OF THE BUSHY-TAILED JIRD (SEKEETAMYS CALURUS) AT EN GEDI

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On Desert Rodents, Favored States, and Unresolved Issues: Scaling Up and Down Regional Assemblages and Local Communities

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

On the role of phylogeny in determining activity patterns of rodents

scholarly article published in 'Evolutionary Ecology' on 2006

On the validity of Bergmann's rule

Opportunism or aquatic specialization? Evidence of freshwater fish exploitation at Ohalo II- A waterlogged Upper Paleolithic site.

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

PREDICTING THE SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF A REINTRODUCED POPULATION: THE PERSIAN FALLOW DEER

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Partitioning of Time as an Ecological Resource

scientific article published in "Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics" on 2003

Predictive modelling in paleoenvironmental reconstruction: The micromammals of Manot Cave, Israel

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Priority Questions and Horizon Scanning for Conservation: A Comparative Study

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Reliability of a higher-taxon approach to richness, rarity, and composition assessments at the local scale

scientific article published on December 2007

Saproxylic beetle assemblages of three managed oak woodlands in the Eastern Mediterranean

scientific article published on 01 March 2013

Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time

scientific article published on 19 April 2004

Temporal niche expansion in mammals from a nocturnal ancestor after dinosaur extinction

scientific article published on 06 November 2017

Testing the use of multivariate inter-site taphonomic comparisons: the faunal analysis of Hefzibah in its Epipalaeolithic cultural context

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The Epipalaeolithic Faunal Sequence in Israel: A View from Neve David

scholarly article by Guy Bar-Oz et al published January 1999 in Journal of Archaeological Science

The Natufian economy at el-Wad Terrace with special reference to gazelle exploitation patterns

The dietary basis for temporal partitioning: food habits of coexisting Acomys species

scientific article (publication date: 12 October 1999)

The effect of the lunar cycle on fecal cortisol metabolite levels and foraging ecology of nocturnally and diurnally active spiny mice

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The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals

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The interplay between genetic and environmental effects on colony insularity in the clonal invasive little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata

scientific article published in 2009

The little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata: a new invasive species in the Middle East and its impact on the local arthropod fauna

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The pet and horticultural trades as introduction and dispersal agents of non-indigenous freshwater molluscs

scientific article published on 04 October 2017

The relationship between the golden spiny mouse circadian system and its diurnal activity: an experimental field enclosures and laboratory study

scientific article (publication date: 2007)

The role of regulatory decision-making on non-indigenous species introductions

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Time and ecological resilience: can diurnal animals compensate for climate change by shifting to nocturnal activity?

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Understanding faunal contexts of a complex Tell: Tel Dor, Israel, as a case study

scholarly article by Lidar Sapir-Hen et al published March 2012 in Journal of Archaeological Science

VARIABILITY AND SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM IN CARNIVORES: TESTING THE NICHE VARIATION HYPOTHESIS

scientific article published in 2005

WEASELS FROM THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD OF ISRAEL

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WEASELS FROM THE IRON AGE OF ISRAEL: A BIOGEOGRAPHIC NOTE

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Wet sieving a complex tell : Implications for retrieval protocols and studies of animal economy in historical periods

What determines prey selection in owls? Roles of prey traits, prey class, environmental variables, and taxonomic specialization.

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Ya'ar Bar'am—An old Quercus calliprinos forest of high nature conservation valuein the Mediterranean region of Israel

scholarly article by Christina Westphal et al published 16 October 2009 in Israel Journal of Plant Sciences

“After 20 Years”: A Taphonomic Re-evaluation of Nahal Hadera V, an Epipalaeolithic Site on the Israeli Coastal Plain

scholarly article by Guy Bar-Oz & Tamar Dayan published February 2002 in Journal of Archaeological Science