Cheng, Jin, Shi, Jun, Shangguan, Fa-Zhi, Dafni, Amots, Deng, Zhen-Hai, Luo, Yi-Bo
Background and Aims The study of specialized interactions between species is crucial to our understanding of processes in evolutionary ecology due to their profound effect on life cycles and...
Hypothesis Plant coloration undermines herbivorous insect camouflage (2008)
Simcha Lev-yadun, Amots Dafni, Moshe A. Flaishman, Moshe Inbar, Ido Izhaki, Gadi Katzir
The main point of our hypothesis ‘‘coloration undermines camouflage’ ’ is that many color patterns in plants undermine the camouflage of invertebrate herbivores, especially insects, thus...
Wind-Dragged Corolla Enhances Self-Pollination: A New Mechanism of Delayed Self-Pollination (2007)
Qu, Rongming, Li, Xiaojie, Luo, Yibo, Dong, Ming, Xu, Huanli, Chen, Xuan, ...
Background and Aims Delayed self-pollination is a mechanism that allows animal-pollinated plants to outcross while ensuring seed production in the absence of pollinators. This study aims to explore a...
Rodríguez-Riaño, Tomás, Dafni, Amots
Background and Aims Intermediate individuals (perfect flowers with very high degree of pollen abortion) in a gynodioecious plant species are very rare. A study is made of male–female relationships...
Abstract Tree worship is very common worldwide. This field study surveys the ceremonies and customs related to sacred trees in present-day Israel; it includes the results of interviews with 98...
The supernatural characters and powers of sacred trees in the Holy Land (2007)
Abstract This article surveys the beliefs concerning the supernatural characteristics and powers of sacred trees in Israel; it is based on a field study as well as a survey of the literature and...
Ritual plants of Muslim graveyards in northern Israel (2006)
Dafni, Amots, Lev, Efraim, Beckmann, Sabine, Eichberger, Christian
Abstract This article surveys the botanical composition of 40 Muslim graveyards in northern Israel, accompanied by an ethnobotanical study of the folkloristic traditions of the use of these plants in...
Abstract This article contains the reasons for the establishment of sacred trees in Israel based on a field study. It includes 97 interviews with Muslim and Druze informants. While Muslims (Arabs and...
RODRÍGUEZ-RIAÑO, TOMÁS, DAFNI, AMOTS
• Background and Aims Intermediate individuals (perfect flowers with very high degree of pollen abortion) in a gynodioecious plant species are very rare. A study is made of male-female...
RODRÍGUEZ-RIAÑO, TOMÁS, DAFNI, AMOTS
• Background and Aims Intermediate individuals (perfect flowers with very high degree of pollen abortion) in a gynodioecious plant species are very rare. A study is made of male-female...
RODRÍGUEZ-RIAÑO, TOMÁS, DAFNI, AMOTS
• Background and Aims Intermediate individuals (perfect flowers with very high degree of pollen abortion) in a gynodioecious plant species are very rare. A study is made of male-female...
RODRÍGUEZ-RIAÑO, TOMÁS, DAFNI, AMOTS
• Background and Aims Intermediate individuals (perfect flowers with very high degree of pollen abortion) in a gynodioecious plant species are very rare. A study is made of male-female...
The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel (2005)
Dafni, Amots, Levy, Shay, Lev, Efraim
Abstract This article surveys the ethnobotany of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. in the Middle East from various aspects: historical, religious, philological, literary, linguistic, as well as...
Why Are Rags Tied To the Sacred Trees of the Holy Land?1 (2002)
A field study to survey the custom of tying rags on sacred trees in the northern part of Israel was carried out during 2000–2001. It included 60 interviewees: 24 Druze, 18 Moslem Arabs, 12 Moslem...
The Doctrine of Signatures in Present-Day Israel1 (2002)
Some evidence of the existence of an ancient pharmacological theory—the Doctrine of Signatures—has been found in the folk medicine of Israel. The research reported 14 plants with folk medicinal...
The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel
Dafni, Amots, Levy, Shay, Lev, Efraim
This article surveys the ethnobotany of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. in the Middle East from various aspects: historical, religious, philological, literary, linguistic, as well as...
On the typology and the worship status of sacred trees with a special reference to the Middle East
This article contains the reasons for the establishment of sacred trees in Israel based on a field study. It includes 97 interviews with Muslim and Druze informants. While Muslims (Arabs and...
Ritual plants of Muslim graveyards in northern Israel
Dafni, Amots, Lev, Efraim, Beckmann, Sabine, Eichberger, Christian
This article surveys the botanical composition of 40 Muslim graveyards in northern Israel, accompanied by an ethnobotanical study of the folkloristic traditions of the use of these plants in...
The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel
Dafni, Amots, Levy, Shay, Lev, Efraim
This article surveys the ethnobotany of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. in the Middle East from various aspects: historical, religious, philological, literary, linguistic, as well as...
On the typology and the worship status of sacred trees with a special reference to the Middle East
This article contains the reasons for the establishment of sacred trees in Israel based on a field study. It includes 97 interviews with Muslim and Druze informants. While Muslims (Arabs and...
Ritual plants of Muslim graveyards in northern Israel
Dafni, Amots, Lev, Efraim, Beckmann, Sabine, Eichberger, Christian
This article surveys the botanical composition of 40 Muslim graveyards in northern Israel, accompanied by an ethnobotanical study of the folkloristic traditions of the use of these plants in...
The supernatural characters and powers of sacred trees in the Holy Land
This article surveys the beliefs concerning the supernatural characteristics and powers of sacred trees in Israel; it is based on a field study as well as a survey of the literature and includes 118...
Rituals, ceremonies and customs related to sacred trees with a special reference to the Middle East
Tree worship is very common worldwide. This field study surveys the ceremonies and customs related to sacred trees in present-day Israel; it includes the results of interviews with 98 informants in...
Red Anemone Guild Flowers as Focal Places for Mating and Feeding of Mediterranean Glaphyrid Beetles
Tamar Keasar, Ally R. Harari, Guido Sabatinelli, Denis Keith, Amots Dafni, Ofrit Shavit, ...
Several species of glaphyrid beetles forage and mate on Mediterranean red flowers. In red anemones and poppies in Israel, female beetles occupy only bowl-shaped a subset of the flowers, do not...