Recent Publications

• Jackson, M.A., S.S. Bleicher. 2024. Meta-analysis reveals behavioral plasticity, not agonistic behavior, facilitates invasion of brown anoles (Anolis sagrei) and replacement of green anoles (Anolis carolinensis). Diversity (in press).
• Human-wildlife conflicts and sensory disinformation, a review of evolutionary trajectories caused by human land-management and rapidly expanding urban landscapes. Journal of Urban Ecology (in press).
• Bleicher, S.S. and Dickman, C.R. 2020. On the landscape of fear: Shelters affect foraging by dunnarts (Marsupialia, Sminthopsis spp.) in a sandridge desert environment. J. Mammal., 101: 281–290.
• Bleicher, S.S., Kotler, B.P., Shalev, O., Austin, D., Embar, K., Brown, J.S., et al. 2018. Divergent behavior amid convergent evolution: A case of four desert rodents learning to respond to known and novel vipers. PLoS One, 13: 1–17.
• Bleicher, S.S., Brown, J.S., Embar, K. and Kotler, B.P. 2016. Novel predator recognition by Allenby’s gerbil (Gerbillus andersoni allenbyi): do gerbils learn to respond to a snake that can “see” in the dark? Isr. J. Ecol. Evol., 62: 178–185.

Degrees

Ph.D.: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Biological Sciences. 2014. Chicago, IL, USA M.Sc.: Dryland Ecology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Desert Studies. 2012. Beersheva, Israel B.S.: Environmental Sciences, Roc

Classes Taught

Investigating Nature

Areas of Expertise

Behavioral ecology, Invasive species biology, Urban ecology, Evolutionary Game Theory, Community and Population Biology, Optimal Foraging