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

N Kramer, G Eyal, R Tamir, Y Loya - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
… We suggest that the upper mesophotic reefs of the GoE/A may serve as a larval sink, and …
suitable habitat for settlement, thus offering an optimistic outlook for the survival of these coral

Growth and survival dynamics of mesophotic coral juveniles in shallow reefs

N Kramer, G Eyal, R Tamir, Y Loya - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2022 - int-res.com
… 53: 457−481 Kramer N, Eyal G, Tamir R, Loya Y (2019) Upper mesophotic depths in the
coral reefs of Eilat, Red Sea, offer suitable refuge grounds for coral settlement. Sci Rep 9: 2263 …

Coral morphology portrays the spatial distribution and population size-structure along a 5–100 m depth gradient

N Kramer, R Tamir, G Eyal, Y Loya - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… serve as natural refuges for certain shallow-reef species and … These reefs are located at the
northern tip of the Red Sea, … structure data along the mesophotic depth slope; and therefore, …

The red sea: Israel

G Eyal, R Tamir, N Kramer, L Eyal-Shaham… - Mesophotic coral …, 2019 - Springer
… We provide a novel definition of the upper (30–80 m) and … The fringing coral reefs situated
on the upper part of the steeply … of Red Sea mesophotic benthic invertebrates on settlement

Sponge abundance and diversity patterns in the shallow and mesophotic reefs of the northern Red Sea

L Raijman-Nagar, L Goren, S Shefer… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
mesophotic coral ecosystem (MCE) as a potential refuge for … et al., 2019; Tamir et al., 2019).
As our current study surveyed only … conditions preventing vehicle settlement, we adjusted the …

Selective deep water coral bleaching occurs through depth isolation

…, JH Laverick, O Ben-Zvi, KT Brown, N Kramer… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
… northern Red Sea as a thermal refuge for shallow coral reefs, … mesophotic ecosystems to act
as a universal tropical refuge. … 2003–2019 and averaged those temperatures by depth bin to …

Ecophysiology of reef-building corals in the Red Sea

M Ziegler, A Roik, T Röthig, C Wild, N Rädecker… - Coral reefs of the Red …, 2019 - Springer
… , reef-building corals form the structural basis of coral reef … on coral holobiont physiology in
the Red Sea to provide … for Marine Sciences (IUI) south of Eilat, Israel, was founded in 1968 …

Light-harvesting in mesophotic corals is powered by a spatially efficient photosymbiotic system between coral host and microalgae

N Kramer, R Tamir, O Ben-Zvi, SL Jacques, Y Loya… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
provide fundamental insight into the energy efficiency and light-harvesting mechanisms
underlying the productivity of mesophotic coral reef … , from the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, the Red Sea. …

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

O Ben-Zvi, R Tamir, N Keren, D Tchernov… - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
… of a strictly mesophotic species from the Red Sea, Euphyllia … mesophotic in the GoE/A (Eyal
et al. 2016; Tamir et al. 2019), … However, we provide a novel example of the changes in …

Mesophotic reef geomorphology categorization, habitat identification, and relationships with surface cover and terrace formation in the Gulf of Aqaba

DK Weinstein, R Tamir, N Kramer, G Eyal… - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
… ecosystems (MCEs) that may serve as coral refuges for … average depth) ~53 km 2 area
northeast extension of the Red Sea, … com., 2019) often resulted in noisy raster creation using the …