Past and present mesophotic coral ecosystems as a predictor for survival of coral reefs in an era of climate change

Project Information

Mesophotic

Grant agreement ID: 796025

DOI 10.3030/796025

Project closed

EC signature date 19 March 2018

Start date 1 October 2018

End date 30 September 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 269 634,60

EU contribution € 269 634,60

Coordinated by

BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY
Israel

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

A unique reproductive strategy in the mushroom coral Fungia fungites

Author(s): 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
Published in: Coral Reefs, 2020, ISSN 0722-4028
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-020-02004-7

Symbiodiniaceae conduct under natural bleaching stress during advanced gametogenesis stages of a mesophotic coral

Author(s): Gal Eyal; Gal Eyal; Lee Eyal-Shaham; Yossi Loya
Published in: Coral Reefs, 2021, ISSN 0722-4028
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-021-02082-1

Mesophotic Ecosystems: The Link between Shallow and Deep-Sea Habitats

Author(s): Gal Eyal, Hudson T. Pinheiro
Published in: Diversity, Issue 12/11, 2020, Page(s) 411, ISSN 1424-2818
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/d12110411

Fine‑scale heterogeneity reveals disproportionate thermal stress and coral mortality in thermally variable reef habitats during a marine heatwave

Author(s): Brown, Kristen; Eyal, Gal; Dove, Sophie; Barott, Katie
Published in: Coral Reefs, 2022, ISSN 0722-4028
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-022-02328-6

Repeatable Semantic Reef-Mapping through Photogrammetry and Label-Augmentation

Author(s): Matan Yuval, Iñigo Alonso, Gal Eyal, Dan Tchernov, Yossi Loya, Ana C. Murillo, Tali Treibitz
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 13/4, 2021, Page(s) 659, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs13040659

Experimental evidence of temperature-induced bleaching in two fluorescence morphs of a Red Sea mesophotic coral

Author(s): Or Ben-Zvi, Eyal Ofer, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Published in: Coral Reefs, 2020, ISSN 0722-4028
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-020-02027-0

Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef Are Understudied and Underexplored

Author(s): Gal Eyal, Jack H. Laverick, Pim Bongaerts, Oren Levy, John M. Pandolfi
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 8, 2021, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers in Marine Sciences
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.622856

A ubiquitous subcuticular bacterial symbiont of a coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish, in the Indo-Pacific

Author(s): Naohisa Wada, Hideaki Yuasa, Rei Kajitani, Yasuhiro Gotoh, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Dai Yoshimura, Atsushi Toyoda, Sen-Lin Tang, Yukihiro Higashimura, Hugh Sweatman, Zac Forsman, Omri Bronstein, Gal Eyal, Nalinee Thongtham, Takehiko Itoh, Tetsuya Hayashi, Nina Yasuda
Published in: Microbiome, Issue 8/1, 2020, Page(s) 123, ISSN 2049-2618
Publisher: BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-020-00880-3

Selective Deep Water Coral Bleaching Occurs Through Depth Isolation

Author(s): Gal Eyal; Jack H. Laverick; Or Ben-Zvi; Kristen T. Brown; Netanel Kramer; Raz Tamir; Yoav Lindemann; Oren Levy; John M. Pandolfi
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, 2022, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4071689

Photoacclimation and induction of light-enhanced calcification in the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa

Author(s): Gal Eyal, Itay Cohen, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Or Ben-Zvi, Yaron Tikochinski, Yossi Loya
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 6/2, 2019, Page(s) 180527, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180527

Upper mesophotic depths in the coral reefs of Eilat, Red Sea, offer suitable refuge grounds for coral settlement

Author(s): Netanel Kramer, Gal Eyal, Raz Tamir, Yossi Loya
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-38795-1

Response of fluorescence morphs of the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa to ultra-violet radiation

Author(s): Or Ben-Zvi, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41710-3

Ecological insights from environmental disturbances in mesophotic coral ecosystems

Author(s): Hudson T. Pinheiro, Gal Eyal, Bart Shepherd, Luiz A. Rocha
Published in: Ecosphere, Issue 10/4, 2019, Page(s) e02666, ISSN 2150-8925
Publisher: esa
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2666

Light environment drives the shallow‐to‐mesophotic coral community transition

Author(s): Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Netanel Kramer, Jack H. Laverick, Yossi Loya
Published in: Ecosphere, Issue 10/9, 2019, ISSN 2150-8925
Publisher: Ecosphere
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2839

CoralSeg: Learning coral segmentation from sparse annotations

Author(s): Iñigo Alonso, Matan Yuval, Gal Eyal, Tali Treibitz, Ana C. Murillo
Published in: Journal of Field Robotics, 2019, ISSN 1556-4959
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21915

Effects of Light Pollution on the Early Life Stages of the Most Abundant Northern Red Sea Coral

Author(s): Tamir, Eyal, Cohen, Loya
Published in: Microorganisms, Issue 8/2, 2020, Page(s) 193, ISSN 2076-2607
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8020193

Photophysiology of a mesophotic coral 3 years after transplantation to a shallow environment

Author(s): 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
Published in: Coral Reefs, 2020, ISSN 0722-4028
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-020-01910-0

A generalized light‐driven model of community transitions along coral reef depth gradients

Author(s): Jack H. Laverick, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2020, ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13140

Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems in the Eastern Tropical Pacific: The current state of knowledge and the spatial variability of their depth boundaries.

Author(s): Miguel Ángel Pérez-Castro; Nadine Schubert; Gabriela Ang-Montes de Oca; Gerardo Esteban Leyte-Morales; Gal Eyal; Gal Eyal; Gustavo Hinojosa-Arango
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, 2022, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150576

Coral Morphology Portrays the Spatial Distribution and Population Size-Structure Along a 5–100 m Depth Gradient

Author(s): Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, Issue 7, 2020, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Front. Mar. Sci.
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00615

Reciprocal-transplantation between shallow and mesophotic stony corals

Author(s): Raz Tamir, Or Ben-Zvi, Gal Eyal, Netanel Kramer, Yossi Loya
Published in: Marine Environmental Research, Issue 161, 2020, Page(s) 105035, ISSN 0141-1136
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105035

Book chapters (2)

Coral Sclerochronology: Similarities and Differences in the Coral Isotopic Signatures Between Mesophotic and Shallow-Water Reefs

Author(s): Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Takaaki K. Watanabe, Atsuko Yamazaki, Shiori Yoneta, Kohki Sowa, Frederic Sinniger, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya, Saki Harii
Published in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems, Issue 12, 2019, Page(s) 667-681, ISBN 978-3-319-92734-3
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92735-0_36

Key Questions for Research and Conservation of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems and Temperate Mesophotic Ecosystems

Author(s): Joseph A. Turner, Dominic A. Andradi-Brown, Andrea Gori, Pim Bongaerts, Heidi L. Burdett, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Christian R. Voolstra, David K. Weinstein, Tom C.L. Bridge, Federica Costantini, Erika Gress, Jack Laverick, Yossi Loya, Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley, Sergio Rossi, Michelle L. Taylor, Nuria Viladrich, Joshua D. Voss, Joel Williams, Lucy C. Woodall, Gal Eyal
Published in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems, Issue 12, 2019, Page(s) 989-1003, ISBN 978-3-319-92734-3
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92735-0_52