Dubinin, Moshe Vladislav, Yagil Osem, Dan Yakir, and Tarin Paz-Kagan. Linking between Water Use Efficiency and Leaf Area Index Along an Aridity Gradient in Dryland Forests. 2022. 
https://ssrn.com/abstract=4124944
 

Grünzweig, J., Hasson, O., Burrows, L., Navon, Y., Klein, T., and Osem, Y. Saving forests from climate change – can livestock grazing reduce the vulnerability of trees to drought?, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-9367.
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9367
 

 Houminer, Naomi, Joseph Riov, Menachem Moshelion, Yagil Osem, and Rakefet David-Schwartz. Comparison of Morphological and Physiological Traits between Pinus brutia, Pinus halepensis, and Their Vigorous F1 Hybrids. Forests 13, no. 9 (2022): 1477.  https://doi.org/10.3390/f13091477
 

Neta Manela, Hagai Shemesh, Yagil Osem, Yohay Carmel, Chanoch Soref, Anat Tsafrir, Ofer Ovadia. Seasonal fires shape the germinable soil seed bank community in eastern Mediterranean woodlands. Journal of Plant Ecology 15:1 (2022): 13–25.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtab070
 

Stavi, Ilan, Hezi Yizhaq, Yagil Osem, and Eli Argaman. Positive impacts of livestock and wild ungulate routes on functioning of dryland ecosystems. Ecology and evolution 11, no. 20 (2021): 13684-13691. 
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8147
 

Zangy, Ela, Jaime Kigel, Shabtai Cohen, Yossef Moshe, Mor Ashkenazi, Ori Fragman-Sapir, and Yagil Osem. Understory plant diversity under variable overstory cover in Mediterranean forests at different spatial scales. Forest Ecology and Management 494 (2021): 119319.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119319
 

Livne-Luzon, Stav, Hagai Shemesh, Yagil Osem, Yohay Carmel, Hen Migael, Yael Avidan, Anat Tsafrir, Sydney I. Glassman, Thomas D. Bruns, and Ofer Ovadia. High resilience of the mycorrhizal community to prescribed seasonal burnings in eastern Mediterranean woodlands. Mycorrhiza 31, no. 2 (2021): 203-216.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-020-01010-5
 

Dovrat, Guy, Ehud Meron, Moshe Shachak, Yosef Moshe, and Yagil Osem. The relationship between species diversity and functional diversity along aridity gradients in semi-arid rangeland. Journal of Arid Environments 195 (2021): 104632.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104632
 

 Sheffer, E., Cooper, A., Perevolotsky, A. et al. Consequences of pine colonization in dry oak woodlands: effects on water stress. Eur J Forest Res 139 (2020): 817–828.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-020-01287-3
 

Väänänen, Päivi J., Yagil Osem, Shabtai Cohen, and José M. Grünzweig. Differential drought resistance strategies of co-existing woodland species enduring the long rainless Eastern Mediterranean summer. Tree Physiology 40, no. 3 (2020): 305-320.
https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpz130
 

Dovrat, Guy, Ehud Meron, Moshe Shachak, Carly Golodets, and Yagil Osem. Plant size is related to biomass partitioning and stress resistance in water-limited annual plant communities. Journal of Arid Environments 165 (2019): 1-9.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.04.006
 

Tsafrir, Anat, Yagil Osem, Hagai Shemesh, Yohay Carmel, Chanoch Soref, and Ofer Ovadia. Fire season modifies the perennial plant community composition through a differential effect on obligate seeders in eastern Mediterranean woodlands. Applied Vegetation Science 22, no. 1 (2019): 115-126.
https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12408
 

Dovrat, Guy, Ehud Meron, Moshe Shachak, Carly Golodets, and Yagil Osem. The relative contributions of functional diversity and functional identity to ecosystem function in water‐limited environments. Journal of Vegetation Science 30, no. 3 (2019): 427-437.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12745
 

Grünzweig, José, Päivi Väänänen, Shabtai Cohen, Yael Navon, and Yagil Osem. Differential drought resistance strategies of co-existing woodland species enduring the long rainless Eastern Mediterranean summer. In Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 21. 2019.
https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpz130
 

Gliksman, Daniel, Sabine Haenel, Yagil Osem, Dan Yakir, Ela Zangy, Yakir Preisler, and José M. Grünzweig. Litter decomposition in Mediterranean pine forests is enhanced by reduced canopy cover. Plant and soil 422, no. 1 (2018): 317-329.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-017-3366-y
 

Osem, Yagil, Tom Fogel, Yossi Moshe, Mor Ashkenazi, and Shlomo Brant. Understory structure and function following release from cattle grazing and overstory thinning in Mediterranean conifer plantations. Annals of forest science 74, no. 1 (2017): 1-11.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-017-0622-5
 

Helman, David, Yagil Osem, Dan Yakir, and Itamar M. Lensky. Relationships between climate, topography, water use and productivity in two key Mediterranean forest types with different water-use strategies. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 232 (2017): 319-330.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.08.018
 

Helman, David, Itamar M. Lensky, Dan Yakir, and Yagil Osem. Forests growing under dry conditions have higher hydrological resilience to drought than do more humid forests. Global Change Biology 23, no. 7 (2017): 2801-2817.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13551
 

Calev, Ailon, Chanoch Zoref, Moshe Tzukerman, Yosef Moshe, Ela Zangy, and Yagil Osem. High-intensity thinning treatments in mature Pinus halepensis plantations experiencing prolonged drought. European journal of forest research 135, no. 3 (2016): 551-563.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-016-0954-y