Recent Publications
2023
Assessment of storm impact on coral reef structural complexity (2023) 891, 164493
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164493
Matan Yuval, Naama Pearl, Dan Tchernov, Stephane Martinez, Yossi Loya, Avi Bar-Massada, Tali Treibitz
Light pollution alters the skeletal morphology of coral juveniles and impairs their light capture capacity. Marine Pollution Bulletin (2023) 193, 115212.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115212
Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Claudia Tatiana Galindo-Martínez, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Yossi Loya
Mila Grinblat, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Gal Eyal, Or Ben-Zvi, Saki Harii, Masya Morita, Kazuhiko Sakai, Mamiko Hirose, David J. Miller, Yossi Loya
Tal Amit, Raz Moskovich, Yuval Jacobi, Sandra E. Shumway, Evan J. Ward, Peter Beninger, Gitai Yahel, Yossi Loya
Coming of age: Annual onset of coral reproduction is determined by age rather than size. iScience, 26, 5 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106533
Hanna Rapuano, Tom Shlesinger, Lachan Roth, Omri Bronstein, Yossi Loya
2022
Netanel Kramer, Jiaao Guan, Shaochen Chen, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Yossi Loya
Emerging 3D technologies for future reformation of coral reefs: Enhancing biodiversity using biomimetic structures based on designs by nature. Science of the Total Environment, 830, 154749 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154749
2021
Biogeography, reproductive biology and phylogenetic divergence within the Fungiidae (mushroom corals) (2021) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 164:107265
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107265
Mila Grinblat, Ira Cooke, Tom Shlesinger, Or Ben-Zvi, Yossi Loya, David J. Miller, Peter F. Cowman
Who is smashing the reef at night? A nocturnal mystery (2021) The Scientific Naturalist
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3420
Tom Shlesinger, Derya Akkaynak, Yossi Loya
Photosynthesis and bio-optical properties of fluorescent mesophotic corals (2021) Frontiers in Marine Science 8:651601
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.651601
Or Ben-Zvi, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Omri Bronstein, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Depth-dependent parental effects create invisible barriers to coral dispersal (2021) Communications Biology 4:202
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01727-9
Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya
Repeatable semantic reef-mapping through photogrammetry and label-augmentation (2021) Remote Sensing 13(4), 659
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040659
Matan Yuval, Iñigo Alonso, Gal Eyal, Dan Tchernov, Yossi Loya, Ana C. Murillo, Tali Treibitz
An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database (2021) Scientific Data 8(35)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00793-8
Baird, A.H., Guest, J.R., Edwards, A.J. et al.
2020
A unique reproductive strategy in the mushroom coral Fungia fungites (2020) Coral Reefs
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-02004-7
Lee Eyal-Shaham, Gal Eyal, Or Ben-Zvi, Kazuhiko Sakai, Saki Harii, Frederic Sinniger, Mamiko Hirose, Patrick Cabaitan, Omri Bronstein, Bar Feldman, Tom Shlesinger, Oren Levy, Yossi Loya
Coral morphology portrays the spatial distribution and population size-structure along a 5-100 m depth gradient (2020) Frontiers in Marine Science 7:615
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00615
Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
A generalized light-driven model of community transitions along coral reef depth gradients (2020) Global Ecology and Biogeography
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13140
Jack H. Laverick, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Photophysiology of a mesophotic coral 3 years after transplantation to a shallow environment (2020), Coral Rees 1-11
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01910-0
Or Ben-Zvi, Raz Tamir, Nir Keren, Dan Tchernov, Ilana Berman-Frank, Yuval Kolodny, Tal Benaltabet, Harel Bavli, Mor Friedman, Noga Glanz-Idan, Hadar Traugott, Yossi Loya, Gal Eyal
Science, Diplomacy, and the Red Sea’s Unique Coral Reef: It’s Time for Action (2020) Frontiers in Marine Science 7:90
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00090
Karine Kleinhaus, Ali Al-Sawalmih, Daniel J Barshis, Amatzia Genin, Lola N Grace, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Yossi Loya, Anders Meibom, Eslam O Osman, Jean-Daniel Ruch, Yonathan Shaked, Christian R Voolstra, Assaf Zvuloni, Maoz Fine
Effects of Light Pollution on the Early Life Stages of the Most Abundant Northern Red Sea Coral (2020) Microorganisms 8(2):193
http://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8020193
Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Itay Cohen, Yossi Loya
2019
Light environment drives the shallow‐to‐mesophotic coral community transition (2019) Ecosphere 10(9):e02839
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2839
Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Netanel Kramer, Jack H Laverick, Yossi Loya
Upper mesophotic depths in the coral reefs of Eilat, Red Sea, offer suitable refuge grounds for coral settlement (2019) Scientific Reports 9(1):1-12
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38795-1
Netanel Kramer, Gal Eyal, Raz Tamir, Yossi Loya