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Peer-reviewed publications supported by MSCA No. 796025 

  1. Gal Eyal, Itay Cohen, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Or Ben-Zvi, Yaron Tikochinski, Yossi Loya (2019) Photoacclimation and induction of light-enhanced calcification in the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa. Royal Society Open Sciences 6:180527. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180527

  2. Netanel Kramer, Gal Eyal, Raz Tamir, Yossi Loya (2019) Upper mesophotic depths in the coral reefs of Eilat, Red Sea, offer suitable refuge grounds for coral settlement. Scientific Reports 9:2263. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-38795-1

  3. Or Ben-Zvi, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya (2019) Response of fluorescence morphs of the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa to ultra-violet radiation. Scientific Reports 9:5245. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41710-3

  4. Hudson T Pinheiro, Gal Eyal, Bart Shepherd, Luiz A Rocha (2019) Ecological insights from environmental disturbances in mesophotic coral ecosystems. Ecosphere 10:e02666. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2666

  5. Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Netanel Kramer, Jack H. Laverick, Yossi Loya (2019) Light environment drives the shallow-to-mesophotic coral community transition. Ecosphere 10:e02839. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2839

  6. Inigo Alonso, Matan Yuval, Gal Eyal, Tali Treibitz, Ana C. Murillo (2019) CoralSeg: Learning Coral Segmentation from Sparse Annotations. Journal of Field Robotics 36:1–23. DOI: 10.1002/rob.21915 (PDF of accepted version)

  7. Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Itay Cohen, Yossi Loya (2020) Effects of light pollution on the early life stages of the most abundant northern Red Sea coral. Microorganisms 8:193. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8020193

  8. 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 (2020) Photophysiology of a mesophotic coral 3 years after transplantation to a shallow environment. Coral Reefs 39:903-913. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-020-01910-0 (PDF of accepted version)

  9. Raz Tamir, Or Ben-Zvi, Gal Eyal, Netanel Kramer, Yossi Loya (2020) Reciprocal-transplantation between shallow and mesophotic stony corals. Marine Environmental Research 161:105035. DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105035 (PDF of accepted version)

  10. Jack H. Laverick, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya (2020) A generalised light-driven model of community transitions along coral reef depth gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29:1554-1564. DOI: 10.1111/geb.13140 (Issue front Cover Image)

  11. Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya (2020) Coral morphology portrays the spatial distribution and population size-structure along a 5-100 m depth gradient. Frontiers in Marine Science 7:615. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00615

  12. Naohisa Wada, Hideaki Yuasa, Rei Kajitani, Yasuhiro Gotoh, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Dai Yoshimura, Atsushi Toyoda, Sen-Lin Tang, Yukihiro Higashimura, Hugh Sweatman, Zac Forman, Omri Bronstein, Gal Eyal, Nalinee Thongtham, Takehiko Itoh, Tetsuya Hayashi, Nina Yasuda (2020) A ubiquitous subcuticular bacterial symbiont of a coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish, in the Indo-PacificMicrobiome 8:123. DOI: 10.1186/s40168-020-00880-3

  13. 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 (2020) A unique reproductive strategy in the mushroom coral Fungia fungites. Coral Reefs 39:1793–1804. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-020-02004-7 (PDF of accepted version)

  14. Gal Eyal, Hudson T Pinheiro (2020) Mesophotic Ecosystems: The Link between Shallow and Deep-Sea Habitats. Diversity 12:411. DOI: 10.3390/d12110411

  15. Or Ben-Zvi, Eyal Ofer, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya (2021) Experimental evidence of temperature-induced bleaching in two fluorescence morphs of a Red Sea mesophotic coral. Coral Reefs 40:187-199. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-020-02027-0 (PDF of accepted version)

  16. Gal Eyal, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Yossi Loya (2021) Symbiodiniaceae conduct under natural bleaching stress during advanced gametogenesis stages of a mesophotic coral. Coral Reefs 40:959–964. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-021-02082-1 (Preprint of accepted version)

  17. Gal Eyal,  Jack H Laverick, Pim Bongaerts, Oren Levy, John M Pandolfi (2021) Mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef are understudied and underexploredFrontiers in Marine Science 8:622856. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.622856

  18. Miguel Ángel Pérez-Castro, Nadine Schubert, Gabriela Ang-Montes de Oca, Gerardo Esteban Leyte-Morales, Gal Eyal, Gustavo Hinojosa-Arango (2022) Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems in the Eastern Tropical Pacific: The current state of knowledge and the spatial variability of their depth boundaries. Science of The Total Environment 806:150576. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150576 (PDF of accepted version)

  19. Gal Eyal, Jack H Laverick, Or Ben-Zvi, Kristen T Brown, Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Yoav Lindemann, Oren Levy, John M Pandolfi (2022) Selective deep water coral bleaching occurs through depth isolation. Science of The Total Environment 844:157180. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157180 (PDF of accepted version)

  20. Kristen T Brown, Gal Eyal, Sophie G Dove, Katie L Barott (2022) Fine-scale heterogeneity reveals disproportionate thermal stress and coral mortality in thermally variable reef habitats during a marine heatwave. Coral Reefs. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-022-02328-6 (PDF of accepted version)

Peer-reviewed book chapters supported by MSCA No. 796025 

  1. Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Takaaki K Watanabe, Atsuko Yamazaki, Shiori Yoneta, Kohki Sowa, Frederic Sinniger, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya, Saki Harii (2019) Coral Sclerochronology: Similarities and Differences in the Coral Isotopic Signatures Between Mesophotic and Shallow-Water Reefs. In: Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL (Eds.) Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems. Coral Reefs of the World, vol 12. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92735-0_36

  2. Joseph A Turner, Dominic A Andradi-Brown, Andrea Gori, Pim Bongaerts, Heidi L Burdett, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Christian R Voolstra, David K Weinstein, Tom CL Bridge, Federica Costantini, Erika Gress, Jack Laverick, Yossi Loya, Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley, Sergio Rossi, Michelle L Taylor, Nuria Viladrich, Joshua Voss, Joel Williams, Lucy C Woodall, Gal Eyal (2019) Key questions for research and conservation of mesophotic coral ecosystems and temperate mesophotic ecosystems. In: Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL (Eds.) Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems. Coral Reefs of the World, vol 12. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92735-0_52

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