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Recent Publications

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2023

Quantifying Attributes of Boring Bivalve Populations in Corals Using Micro-Computed Tomography (2024). Front. Mar. Sci. 11:1407537. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1407537

​Netanel Kramer, Tal Amit, Noga Gavrieli, Maya Gross, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Yossi Loya

Reproductive ecology of fire corals in the northern Red Sea. Coral Reefs (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02565-x

Lachan Roth, Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya

Coral Hosts Provide More than Shelter to Boring Bivalves (2024). Ecology e4376. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4376

Tal Amit, Peter G. Beninger, Gitai Yahel, Yossi Loya

  • 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

Energy allocation trade-offs as a function of age in fungiid corals. Front. Mar. Sci. (2023) 10:1113987.
doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1113987

Mila Grinblat, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Gal Eyal, Or Ben-Zvi, Saki Harii, Masya Morita, Kazuhiko Sakai, Mamiko Hirose, David J. Miller, Yossi Loya 

Feeding on the smallest cells: an in situ study of picoplankton capture by bivalve molluscs from oligotrophic waters. Front. Mar. Sci. (2023) 10:1184773. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1184773

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

Morpho-functional traits of the coral Stylophora pistillata enhance light capture for photosynthesis at mesophotic depths. Nature Communications, 5, 861 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03829-4

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

Coral fluorescence: a prey-lure in deep habitats. Commun Biol 5, 537 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03460-3

Or Ben-Zvi, Yoav Lindemann, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya

Soft coral reproductive phenology along a depth gradient: Can “going deeper” provide a viable refuge? (2022). Ecology. e3760. 
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3760

Ronen Liberman, Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya, Yehuda Benayahu

Growth and survival dynamics of mesophotic coral juveniles in shallow reefs (2022) Marine Ecology Progress Series 682:237-242
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13956

Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya

Efficient light-harvesting of mesophotic corals is facilitated by coral optical traits (2021) Functional Ecology, 00, 1-13
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13948

Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Or Ben-Zvi, Steven L. Jacques, Yossi Loya, Daniel Wangpraseurt

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

Symbiodiniaceae conduct under natural bleaching stress during advanced gametogenesis stages of a mesophotic coral (2021) Coral Reefs 40, 959–964. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02082-1

Gal Eyal, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Yossi Loya

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

Mesophotic reef geomorphology categorization, habitat identification, and relationships with surface cover and terrace formation in the Gulf of Aqaba (2021) Geomorphology 107548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107548

David K. Weinstein, Raz Tamir, Netanel Kramer, Gal Eyal, Igal Berenshtein, Yonathan Shaked, Yossi Loya, Adi Torfstein

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

Experimental evidence of temperature-induced bleaching in two fluorescence morphs of a Red Sea mesophotic coral (2021) Coral Reefs 40(1):187-99
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-02027-0

Or Ben-Zvi, Eyal Ofer, Gal Eyal, 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

Reciprocal-transplantation between shallow and mesophotic stony corals (2020), Marine Environmental Research 105035.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105035

Raz TamirOr Ben-ZviGal EyalNetanel KramerYossi 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

Breakdown in spawning synchrony: A silent threat to coral persistence (2019) Science 365 (6457):1002-1007
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax0110

Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya

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

Mass medusae release and temporal reproductive segregation among the three Red Sea fire coral species (2019) Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 100(2):1-3
https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1508

Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya

Response of fluorescence morphs of the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa to ultra-violet radiation (2019) Scientific Reports 9(1):1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41710-3

Or Ben-Zvi, Gal Eyal, 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

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