Oren Kolodny

The double-edged sword of wildlife biodiversity in the agricultural matrix: a case study of reptiles in vineyards

This study examines how mechanical harvest in vineyards affects reptile biodiversity, finding that chameleons are attracted to grapes but killed before reproducing, highlighting ecological traps in agricultural landscapes.

Competition for resources can reshape the evolutionary properties of spatial structure

This study combines resource competition models with evolutionary graph theory to show that ecological competition can reverse the role of amplifier and suppressor networks for deleterious mutants.

Who is the host of the host-associated microbiome? Colony-level dynamics overshadow individual-level characteristics in the fur microbiome of a social mammal, the Egyptian fruit-bat

The study shows that colony-level dynamics, not individual-level changes, drive fur microbiome variation in Egyptian fruit bats, suggesting the colony as a biological unit for studying host-microbiome interactions.