A5106303147- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Marine and fisheries research
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Image Processing Techniques and Applications
Tel Aviv University
2024
National Insurance Institute of Israel
2024
University of Haifa
2020-2023
University of Tirana
2022
Ruppin Academic Center
2012
The Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring (MEDLEM) database contains over 3000 records (more than 4000 individuals) of large elasmobranch species from 20 different countries around the and Black seas, observed 1666 to 2017. main included in archive are devil fish (1 813 individuals), basking shark (939 blue (585 great white (337 individuals).In last decades other such as shortfin mako (166 spiny butterfly ray (138) thresher (174 were reported with an increasing frequency. This was...
The expansion of the world's merchant fleet poses a great threat to ocean's biodiversity. Collisions between ships and marine megafauna can have population-level consequences for vulnerable species. Endangered whale shark (Rhincodon typus), shares circumglobal distribution with this expanding tracking movement pathways has shown that large vessel collisions pose major However, it is not yet known whether they are also at risk within aggregation sites, where up 400 individuals gather feed on...
Growing human use of the marine environment increases proximity humans to wildlife and thus likely human-wildlife interactions. Such interactions influence perceptions nature promote or undermine conservation. Despite their importance, are rarely considered in ecosystem-based spatial planning (MSP). Ideally, these should be identified management (EBM), which is often purported basis for MSP. We used Marxan software data from a citizen science project documenting location, species, age, sex,...
Abstract Stingrays and guitarfish are globally threatened by overexploitation, particularly so in the Mediterranean Sea. Nevertheless, very little information is known about their ecology, behaviour, taxonomy Mediterranean, especially Levant, where water temperature, salinity, impact of invasive species relatively high. Although it has been suggested that some may aggregate this not formally documented scale phenomenon, taxonomic composition, temporal dynamics unknown. Visual surveys were...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 590:145-154 (2018) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12478 Seasonal aggregations of sharks near coastal power plants in Israel: an emerging phenomenon Adi Barash1,2,*, Renanel Pickholtz3, Eliezer Pickholtz4, Leon Blaustein1, Gil Rilov2,5 1Institute Evolution and Department Evolutionary & Environmental...
The blackchin guitarfish Glaucostegus cemiculus has suffered severe declines and regional extirpation throughout its known distributions. While this species relative, the common Rhinobatos rhinobatos , have been described in Mediterranean Sea with co-occurring habitat ranges, no research recorded existence or extent of these two separate populations along Israeli coastal waters. Along a particular coast Israel, Ma’agan Michael, fishermen reported annual observations juvenile between June to...
Global warming raises seawater temperatures and creates changes which have been found to affect the movement of large migrating marine species. Understanding thermal niches species could prove essential anticipate how future climate will alter migrations, conservation efforts change accordingly. Orot Rabin power station in Hadera, Israel uses cool its turbine releases warm water back into Mediterranean Sea. As a result, area with artificially elevated is created around effluent. Every winter...
Chondrichthyans are apex predators influencing the trophic web through a top-down process thus their depletion will affect remaining biota. Notwithstanding that, research on chondrichthyans is sparse or data-limited in several biogeographic areas worldwide, including Levantine Sea. We revise and update knowledge of Cyprus based bibliographic review that gains information retrieved from peer-reviewed grey literature, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (135 records at least 18 species)...
Accurate checklists of species are essential for evaluating their conservation status and understanding more about distribution, biology ecology and, therefore, the first step in order to effectively protect them. According existing literature, Greek seas rich chondrichthyan biodiversity herein, we update most recent checklist country regarding that present waters, correct unvalidated miscellaneous sightings observations provide guidelines future research improve conservation. In total, 330...
Two species of carcharhinid sharks aggregate every winter at the warm water effluent a coastal power plant on Israeli Mediterranean coast. The two (Carcharhinus obscurus and Carcharhinus plumbeus) cooccur in highly confined area for several months year are associated with around hot effluent. Niche partitioning has recently been suggested as mechanism that enables coexistence similar shark by resource partitioning, spatial temporal partitioning. In this study, we used acoustic telemetry to...
This contribution aims to increase the information of MEDLEM (Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring) program, presenting results analyzes on data collected and acquired in last 5 years (from 2017 2022). There are a further 989 records, relating 35 taxa from 17 countries representative almost all GSAs Mediterranean. The most frequent species reported is sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus, 31,5% records), followed by bluntnose sixgill (Hexanchus griseus, 20,5% records). New other rare...
Chondrichthyans are considered a highly threatened marine species, due both to the intense fishing pressure they have experienced in world’s Oceans over several decades, and other threats, such as habitat loss, climate change pollution. A rapid decline their populations could trigger significant negative changes ecosystems, highlighting need for improved conservation measures. This study analyzes current state of this group waters Montenegro (in southeastern Adriatic Sea). The first national...
This paper presents the novel task of bluespotted ribbontail (BR) ray (Taeniura lymma) recognition using deep learning based computer vision methods to enable identification specific individuals this species. Mapping in relation location and time will allow marine researchers understand their movement patterns, habitat choice, life span, size population more – data which could monitoring establishing a tailor-made conservation plan for Our work is pioneer on problem. We give detailed...