Papers
2024
The paper below is the one I talked about at AGU 2024. At the moment, it has not yet been processed by bioRxiv, but it should be online soon.
Erez Feuer, Yakir Preisler, Dan Yakir and Yair Mau. Dry Heatwaves Alone Do Not Reduce Tree Resilience, but Their Compounding with Soil Drought Does. bioRxiv, 2024.
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doi = {not available},
url = {https://doi.org/not available},
year = {2024},
volume = {not available},
number = {not available},
author = {Erez Feuer and Yakir Preisler and Dan Yakir and Yair Mau},
title = {Dry Heatwaves Alone Do Not Reduce Tree Resilience, but Their Compounding with Soil Drought Does},
journal = {bioRxiv},
}Laura Rez, Justine Missik, Gil Bohrer and Yair Mau. Stem water content is crucial to support fruit tree functioning during heatwaves in a Mediterranean climate. bioRxiv, 2024.
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doi = {10.1101/2024.09.29.615635},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615635},
year = {2024},
volume = {not available},
number = {not available},
author = {Laura Rez and Justine Missik and Gil Bohrer and Yair Mau},
title = {Stem water content is crucial to support fruit tree functioning during heatwaves in a Mediterranean climate},
journal = {bioRxiv},
}Isaac Kramer, Nadav Peleg and Yair Mau. Climate Change Shifts Risk of Soil Salinity and Land Degradation in Water-Scarce Regions. Agricultural Water Management, accepted for publication, 2024.
PDF@article{kramer2024climate,
doi = {not available},
url = {https://doi.org/not available},
year = {2024},
volume = {not available},
number = {not available},
author = {Isaac Kramer and Nadav Peleg and Yair Mau},
title = {Climate Change Shifts Risk of Soil Salinity and Land Degradation in Water-Scarce Regions},
journal = {Agricultural Water Management},
}Nurit Goldberg-Yehuda, Uri Nachshon, Shmuel Assouline and Yair Mau. The effect of mechanical compaction on the soil water retention curve: Insights from a rapid image analysis of micro-CT scanning. Catena, 2024.
PDF@article{goldberg2024effect,
doi = {10.1016/j.catena.2024.108068},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2024.108068},
year = {2024},
volume = {242},
number = {not available},
pages={108068},
author = {Goldberg-Yehuda, Nurit and Nachshon, Uri and Assouline, Shmuel and Mau, Yair},
title = {The effect of mechanical compaction on the soil water retention curve: Insights from a rapid image analysis of micro-CT scanning},
journal = {Catena},
}Mantova et al.. Monitoring urban trees across the world. Report from the Urban Trees Ecophysiology Network UTEN inaugural workshop. New Phytologist, 2024.
PDF@article{mantova2024monitoring,
title = {Monitoring urban trees across the world. Report from the Urban Trees Ecophysiology Network (<scp>UTEN</scp>) inaugural workshop: The Urban Trees Ecophysiology Network inaugural workshop, Georgia Center at the University of Georgia, Athens, United States, March 2023},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.19621},
DOI = {10.1111/nph.19621},
journal = {New Phytologist},
publisher = {Wiley},
author = {Mantova, Marylou and Johnson, Daniel M. and Antebi, Jonathan and Beery, Sara and Blumstein, Meghan and Cohen, Ron and Defavari, Felipe and Feng, Xue and Feuer, Erez and Gersony, Jess and Hammond, William M. and John, Grace and Marchin, Renée M. and Mau, Yair and Miller, Bill and Nibbelink, Clara and Ossola, Alessandro and Paquette, Alain and Rademacher, Tim and Rissanen, Kaisa and Shemesh‐Mayer, Einat and Skelton, Robert and Wilkening, Jean V. and Preisler, Yakir},
year = {2024},
}2023
Isaac Kramer and Yair Mau. Review: Modeling the Effects of Salinity and Sodicity in Agricultural Systems. Water Resources Research, 2023.
PDF@article{kramer2022effects,
doi = {10.1029/2023WR034750},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR034750},
year = {2023},
volume = {59},
number = {6},
author = {Isaac Kramer and Yair Mau},
title = {Review: Modeling the Effects of Salinity and Sodicity in Agricultural Systems},
journal = {Water Resources Research},
}2022
Isaac Kramer, Yaara Tsairi, Michael Buchdahl Roth, Alon Tal, and Yair Mau. Effects of population growth on Israel’s demand for desalinated water. npj Clean Water, 2022.
PDF@article{kramer2022effects,
doi = {10.1038/s41545-022-00215-9},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-022-00215-9},
year = {2022},
author = {Isaac Kramer and Yaara Tsairi and Michael Buchdahl Roth and Alon Tal and Yair Mau},
title = {Effects of population growth on Israel’s demand for desalinated water},
journal = {npj Clean Water},
}Isaac Kramer, Yuval Bayer, and Yair Mau. The Sustainability of Treated Wastewater Irrigation: The Impact of Hysteresis on Saturated Soil Hydraulic Conductivity. Water Resources Research, 2022.
PDF@article{kramer2022sustainability,
doi = {10.1029/2021WR031307},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031307},
year = {2022},
author = {Isaac Kramer and Yuval Bayer and Yair Mau},
title = {The Sustainability of Treated Wastewater Irrigation: The Impact of Hysteresis on Saturated Soil Hydraulic Conductivity},
journal = {Water Resources Research},
}Taiwo Adeyemo, Isaac Kramer, Guy J. Levy, and Yair Mau. Salinity and sodicity can cause hysteresis in soil hydraulic conductivity. Geoderma, 2022.
PDF@article{adeyemo2022salinity,
doi = {10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.115765},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.115765},
year = {2022},
month = may,
publisher = {Elsevier {BV}},
volume = {413},
pages = {115765},
author = {Taiwo Adeyemo and Isaac Kramer and Guy J. Levy and Yair Mau},
title = {Salinity and sodicity can cause hysteresis in soil hydraulic conductivity},
journal = {Geoderma}
}Nurit Goldberg Yehuda, Shmuel Assouline, Yair Mau, and Uri Nachshon. Compaction effects on evaporation and salt precipitation in drying porous media. HESS, 2022.
PDF@article{goldberg2022compaction,
title={Compaction effects on evaporation and salt precipitation in drying porous media},
author={Goldberg-Yehuda, Nurit and Assouline, Shmuel and Mau, Yair and Nachshon, Uri},
journal={Hydrology and Earth System Sciences},
volume={26},
number={9},
pages={2499--2517},
year={2022},
publisher={Copernicus GmbH}
}2021
Yuval R. Zelnik, Yair Mau, Moshe Shachak, and Ehud Meron. High-integrity human intervention in ecosystems: Tracking self-organization modes. PLOS Computational Biology, 2021.
PDF@article{zelnik2021high,
doi = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009427},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009427},
year = {2021},
author = {Yuval R. Zelnik and Yair Mau and Moshe Shachak and Ehud Meron},
title = {High-integrity human intervention in ecosystems: Tracking self-organization modes},
journal = {PLOS Computational Biology},
volume = {17},
number = {9},
pages = {e1009427}
}Isaac Kramer, Yuval Bayer, Taiwo Adeyemo, and Yair Mau. Hysteresis in soil hydraulic conductivity as driven by salinity and sodicity: a modeling framework. HESS, 2021.
PDF Github@article{kramer2020hysteresis,
doi = {10.5194/hess-25-1993-2021},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1993-2021},
year = {2021},
author = {Isaac Kramer and Yuval Bayer and Taiwo Adeyemo and Yair Mau},
title = {Hysteresis in soil hydraulic conductivity as driven by salinity and sodicity: a modeling framework},
journal = {Hydrology and Earth System Sciences},
volume={25},
number={4},
pages={1993--2008}
}2020
Isaac Kramer and Yair Mau. Soil degradation risks assessed by the SOTE model for salinity and sodicity. Water Resources Research, 2020.
PDF Github@article{kramer2020soil,
doi = {10.1029/2020WR027456},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027456},
year = {2020},
publisher = {Wiley},
volume = {56},
number = {10},
author = {Isaac Kramer and Yair Mau},
title = {Soil degradation risks assessed by the SOTE model for salinity and sodicity},
journal = {Water Resources Research}
}Xing Chen, Mukesh Kumar, Daniel de B. Richter, and Yair Mau. Impact of gully incision on hillslope hydrology. Hydrological Processes, 2020.
PDF@article{chen2020impact,
doi = {10.1002/hyp.13845},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13845},
year = {2020},
publisher = {Wiley},
volume = {34},
number = {19},
pages = {3848--3866},
author = {Xing Chen and Mukesh Kumar and Daniel B. Richter and Yair Mau},
title = {Impact of gully incision on hillslope hydrology},
journal = {Hydrological Processes}
}Avigail Kaner, Yakir Preisler, José M. Grünzweig, and Yair Mau. Internal water storage buffering maintains plant function under drought as described by a general hydraulic model. bioRxiv, 2020.
PDF@article{kaner2020internal,
doi = {10.1101/2020.02.11.943563},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.11.943563},
year = {2020},
publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
volume = {},
number = {},
pages = {},
author = {Avigail Kaner and Yakir Preisler and Jos{\'{e}} M Gr\"{u}nzweig and Yair Mau},
title = {Internal water storage buffering maintains plant function under drought as described by a general hydraulic model},
journal = {}
}2016
Yair Mau and Amilcare Porporato. Optimal control solutions to sodic soil reclamation. Advances in Water Resources, 2016.
PDF2015
Amilcare Porporato, Xue Feng, Stefano Manzoni, Yair Mau, Anthony J. Parolari, and Giulia Vico. Ecohydrological modeling in agroecosystems: Examples and challenges. Water Resources Research, 2015.
PDF@article{porporato2015ecohydrological,
doi = {10.1002/2015wr017289},
year = {2015},
publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
author = {Amilcare Porporato and Xue Feng and Stefano Manzoni and Yair Mau and Anthony J. Parolari and Giulia Vico},
title = {Ecohydrological modeling in agroecosystems: Examples and challenges},
journal = {Water Resources Research},
volume = {51},
number = {7},
pages = {5081--5099}
}Yair Mau and Amilcare Porporato. A dynamical system approach to soil salinity and sodicity. Advances in Water Resources, 2015.
PDFYair Mau, Lev Haim, and Ehud Meron. Reversing desertification as a spatial resonance problem. Physical Review E, 2015.
PDF2014
Yair Mau, Xue Feng, and Amilcare Porporato. Multiplicative jump processes and applications to leaching of salt and contaminants in the soil. Physical Review E, 2014.
PDF@article{mau2014multiplicative,
title={Multiplicative jump processes and applications to leaching of salt and contaminants in the soil},
author={Yair Mau and Xue Feng and Amilcare Porporato},
journal={Physical Review E},
volume={90},
number={5},
pages={052128},
year={2014},
publisher={APS},
doi = {10.1103/physreve.90.052128},
}Lev Haim, Yair Mau, and Ehud Meron. Spatial forcing of pattern-forming systems that lack inversion symmetry. Physical Review E, 2014.
PDF2013
Yair Mau, Lev Haim, Aric Hagberg, and Ehud Meron. Competing resonances in spatially forced pattern-forming systems. Physical Review E, 2013.
PDF@article{mau2013competing,
title={Competing resonances in spatially forced pattern-forming systems},
author={Yair Mau and Lev Haim and Aric Hagberg and Ehud Meron},
journal={Physical Review E},
volume={88},
number={3},
pages={032917},
year={2013},
publisher={APS},
doi = {10.1103/physreve.88.032917},
}2012
Yair Mau, Aric Hagberg, and Ehud Meron. Spatial periodic forcing can displace patterns it is intended to control. Physical Review Letters, 2012.
PDF@article{mau2012spatial,
title={Spatial periodic forcing can displace patterns it is intended to control},
author={Yair Mau and Aric Hagberg and Ehud Meron},
journal={Physical Review Letters},
volume={109},
number={3},
pages={034102},
year={2012},
publisher={APS},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.109.034102},
}2009
Yair Mau, Aric Hagberg, and Ehud Meron. Dual-mode spiral vortices. Physical Review E, 2009.
PDFTheses
PhD Thesis
MSc Thesis
Yair Mau. Localized Spatial Structures in Non-Equilibrium Systems. Advisor: Prof. Ehud Meron. MSc Thesis, Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Neveg, Israel, 2009.
The most important thing about an equation is all the quantities that don’t appear in it; once we know what the essentials are, figuring out how they depend on each other is often the easier part.
— Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm
— Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm