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    Ecosystem changes drive modifications to fish diets and trophic interactions in Lake Kinneret, Israel

    The Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) ecosystem has undergone physical and biological changes over the past 25 years, including a shift from a dinoflagellate Peridinium gatunense)-dominated system to one in which Cy...

    Jamie Aaron Shapiro, Ehud Spanier, Gideon Gal in Hydrobiologia (2022)

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    Stormwater systems as a source of marine debris: a case study from the Mediterranean coast of Israel

    Drainage (or stormwater) systems are a potential source of marine debris. Approximately 67 km (33%) of the land along the Mediterranean coast of Israel is considered urban, covered by concrete and asphalt. The...

    Galia Pasternak, Christine A. Ribic, Ehud Spanier in Journal of Coastal Conservation (2021)

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    Population genetic parameters of the emerging corallivorous snail Drupella cornus in the northern Gulf of Eilat and Tanzanian coastlines based on mitochondrial COI gene sequences

    The genetic diversity and population genetic structures of Drupella cornus populations from six localities in the northern Gulf of Eilat (GOE) and five localities in Tanzania (269 individuals) were investigated u...

    Nsajigwa E. J. Mbije, Jacob Douek, Ehud Spanier, Baruch Rinkevich in Marine Biodiversity (2019)

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    The invasive venomous striped eel catfish Plotosus lineatus in the Levant: possible mechanisms facilitating its rapid invasional success

    The venomous striped eel catfish Plotosus lineatus was first recorded in the Mediterranean in 2002. Within 1–3 years, it has spread throughout the entire Israeli coast. We have studied its spatiot...

    Dor Edelist, Daniel Golani, Gil Rilov, Ehud Spanier in Marine Biology (2012)

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    δ15N as a natural tracer of particulate nitrogen effluents released from marine aquaculture

    The flow of particulate nitrogen from marine net pen fish farm effluents to the surrounding biofouling community was quantified by means of stable isotopes of nitrogen. Plastic mesh substrates were deployed at...

    Sonja Lojen, Ehud Spanier, Anat Tsemel, Timor Katz, Noa Eden in Marine Biology (2005)

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    Damage Control in the Coastal Zone: Improving Water Quality by Harvesting Aquaculture-Derived Nutrients

    There is a clear relationship between nutrient enrichment and the eventual deterioration of coastal water quality (eutrophication). Eutrophication occurs when the rate of nutrient supply exceeds its transforma...

    Dror L. Angel, Timor Katz, Noa Eden in Strategic Management of Marine Ecosystems (2005)

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    In situ biofiltration: a means to limit the dispersal of effluents from marine finfish cage aquaculture

    Net pen fish farms generally enrich the surrounding waters and the underlying sediments with nutrients and organic matter, and these loadings can cause a variety of environmental problems, such as algal blooms...

    Dror L. Angel, Noa Eden, Stephen Breitstein, Amir Yurman, Timor Katz in Hydrobiologia (2002)

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    Artificial Reefs off the Mediterranean Coast of Israel

    The south-eastern region has been shown to be the most oligotrophic part of the Mediterranean Sea (see Kimor and Wood, 1975; Lakkis and Lakkis, 1980; Kimor, 1983), which is generally considered to be the most ...

    Ehud Spanier in Artificial Reefs in European Seas (2000)