Book Chapters
Turner, Joseph A., Andradi-Brown, Dominic A., Gori, Andrea, Bongaerts, Pim, Burdett, Heidi L., Ferrier-Pages, Christine, Voolstra, Christian R., Weinstein, David K., Bridge, Tom C. L., Costantini, Federica, Gress, Erika, Laverick, Jack, Loya, Yossi, Goodbody-Gringley, Gretchen, Rossi, Sergio, Taylor, Michelle L., Viladrich, Nuria, Voss, Joshua D., Williams, Joel, Woodall, Lucy C. and Eyal, Gal (2019). Key questions for research and conservation of mesophotic coral ecosystems and temperate mesophotic ecosystems. Mesophotic coral ecosystems. (pp. 989-1003) edited by Yossi Loya, Kimberly A. Puglise and Tom C.L. Bridge. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-92735-0_52
Eyal, Gal, Tamir, Raz, Kramer, Netanel, Eyal-Shaham, Lee and Loya, Yossi (2019). The Red Sea: Israel. Mesophotic coral ecosystems. (pp. 199-214) edited by Yossi Loya, Kimberly A. Puglise and Tom C.L. Bridge. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-92735-0_11
Watanabe, Tsuyoshi, Watanabe, Takaaki K., Yamazaki, Atsuko, Yoneta, Shiori, Sowa, Kohki, Sinniger, Frederic, Eyal, Gal, Loya, Yossi and Harii, Saki (2019). Coral sclerochronology: similarities and differences in the coral isotopic signatures between mesophotic and shallow-water reefs. Mesophotic coral ecosystems. (pp. 667-681) edited by Yossi Loya, Kimberly A. Puglise and Tom C.L. Bridge. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-92735-0_36
Journal Articles
Capel, K. C. C., Ayalon, I., Simon-Blecher, N., Zweifler Zvifler, A., Benichou, IC J., Eyal, G., Avisar, D., Roth, J., Bongaerts, P. and Levy, O. (2025). Depth-structured lineages in the coral Stylophora pistillata of the Northern Red Sea. npj Biodiversity, 4 (1) 13. doi: 10.1038/s44185-025-00083-9
Grinham, Alistair, Costantini, Tony, Deering, Nathaniel, Jackson, Cameron, Klein, Carissa, Lovelock, Catherine, Pandolfi, John, Eyal, Gal, Linde, Michael, Dunbabin, Matthew, Duncan, Brendon, Hutley, Nicholas, Byrne, Ilha, Wilson, Craig and Albert, Simon (2024). Nitrogen loading resulting from major floods and sediment resuspension to a large coastal embayment. Science of the Total Environment, 918 170646, 170646. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170646
Wiedenmann, Jörg, D’Angelo, Cecilia, Mardones, M. Loreto, Moore, Shona, Benkwitt, Cassandra E., Graham, Nicholas A. J., Hambach, Bastian, Wilson, Paul A., Vanstone, James, Eyal, Gal, Ben-Zvi, Or, Loya, Yossi and Genin, Amatzia (2023). Author Correction: Reef-building corals farm and feed on their photosynthetic symbionts. Nature, 621 (7980), E44-E44. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06584-6
Wiedenmann, Jörg, D’Angelo, Cecilia, Mardones, M. Loreto, Moore, Shona, Benkwitt, Cassandra E., Graham, Nicholas A. J., Hambach, Bastian, Wilson, Paul A., Vanstone, James, Eyal, Gal, Ben-Zvi, Or, Loya, Yossi and Genin, Amatzia (2023). Reef-building corals farm and feed on their photosynthetic symbionts. Nature, 620 (7976), 1018-1024. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06442-5
Gijsbers, J. C., Englebert, N., Prata, K. E., Pichon, M., Dinesen, Z., Brunner, R., Eyal, G., González-Zapata, F. L., Kahng, S. E., Latijnhouwers, K. R. W., Muir, P., Radice, V. Z., Sánchez, J. A., Vermeij, M. J. A., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Jacobs, S. J. and Bongaerts, P. (2023). Global phylogenomic assessment of Leptoseris and Agaricia reveals substantial undescribed diversity at mesophotic depths. BMC Biology, 21 (1) 147, 1-15. doi: 10.1186/s12915-023-01630-1
Grinblat, Mila, Eyal-Shaham, Lee, Eyal, Gal, Ben-Zvi, Or, Harii, Saki, Morita, Masaya, Sakai, Kazuhiko, Hirose, Mamiko, Miller, David J. and Loya, Yossi (2023). Energy allocation trade-offs as a function of age in fungiid corals. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10 1113987, 1-13. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1113987
Pérez-Castro, Miguel Ángel, Eyal, Gal, Leyte-Morales, Gerardo Esteban, Hinojosa-Arango, Gustavo and Enríquez, Susana (2023). Benthic characterization of mesophotic communities based on optical depths in the Southern Mexican Pacific Coast (Oaxaca). Diversity, 15 (4) 531, 531. doi: 10.3390/d15040531
Brown, Kristen T., Eyal, Gal, Dove, Sophie G. and Barott, Katie L. (2022). Fine-scale heterogeneity reveals disproportionate thermal stress and coral mortality in thermally variable reef habitats during a marine heatwave. Coral Reefs, 42 (1), 131-142. doi: 10.1007/s00338-022-02328-6
Eyal, Gal, Laverick, Jack H., Ben-Zvi, Or, Brown, Kristen T., Kramer, Netanel, Tamir, Raz, Lindemann, Yoav, Levy, Oren and Pandolfi, John M. (2022). Selective deep water coral bleaching occurs through depth isolation. Science of the Total Environment, 844 157180, 157180. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157180
Rinsky, Mieka, Weizman, Eviatar, Ben-Asher, Hiba Waldman, Eyal, Gal, Zhu, Bokai and Levy, Oren (2022). Temporal gene expression patterns in the coral Euphyllia paradivisa reveal the complexity of biological clocks in the cnidarian-algal symbiosis. Science Advances, 8 (37) eabo6467, 1-15. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abo6467
Hammerman, Nicholas M., Roff, George, Lybolt, Tracy, Eyal, Gal and Pandolfi, John M. (2022). Unraveling Moreton Bay reef history: an urban high-latitude setting for coral development. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10 884850, 1-15. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.884850
Ben-Zvi, Or, Lindemann, Yoav, Eyal, Gal and Loya, Yossi (2022). Coral fluorescence: a prey-lure in deep habitats. Communications Biology, 5 (1) 537, 1-8. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03460-3
Pérez-Castro, Miguel Ángel, Schubert, Nadine, Ang-Montes de Oca, Gabriela, Leyte-Morales, Gerardo Esteban, Eyal, Gal and Hinojosa-Arango, Gustavo (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 (Pt 2) 150576, 150576. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150576
Kramer, Netanel, Eyal, Gal, Tamir, Raz and Loya, Yossi (2022). Growth and survival dynamics of mesophotic coral juveniles in shallow reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 682, 237-242. doi: 10.3354/meps13956
Hammerman, Nicholas M., Roff, George, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Leonard, Nicole, Staples, Timothy L., Eyal, Gal, Rossbach, Susann, Havlik, Michelle N., Saderne, Vincent, Zhao, Jian-xin, Duarte, Carlos M. and Pandolfi, John M. (2021). Reef accumulation is decoupled from recent degradation in the central and southern Red Sea. Science of the Total Environment, 809 151176, 1. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151176
Yuasa, Hideaki, Kajitani, Rei, Nakamura, Yuta, Takahashi, Kazuki, Okuno, Miki, Kobayashi, Fumiya, Shinoda, Takahiro, Toyoda, Atsushi, Suzuki, Yutaka, Thongtham, Nalinee, Forsman, Zac, Bronstein, Omri, Seveso, Davide, Montalbetti, Enrico, Taquet, Coralie, Eyal, Gal, Yasuda, Nina and Itoh, Takehiko (2021). Elucidation of the speciation history of three sister species of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster spp.) based on genomic analysis. DNA Research, 28 (4) dsab012. doi: 10.1093/dnares/dsab012
Weinstein, David K., Tamir, Raz, Kramer, Netanel, Eyal, Gal, Berenshtein, Igal, Shaked, Yonathan, Loya, Yossi and Torfstein, Adi (2021). Mesophotic reef geomorphology categorization, habitat identification, and relationships with surface cover and terrace formation in the Gulf of Aqaba. Geomorphology, 379 107548, 107548. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107548
Ben-Zvi, Or, Wangpraseurt, Daniel, Bronstein, Omri, Eyal, Gal and Loya, Yossi (2021). Photosynthesis and bio-optical properties of fluorescent mesophotic corals. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 651601. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.651601
Bongaerts, Pim, Cooke, Ira R., Ying, Hua, Wels, Dagmar, den Haan, Stijn , Hernandez-Agreda, Alejandra, Brunner, Christopher A., Dove, Sophie, Englebert, Norbert, Eyal, Gal, Forêt, Sylvain, Grinblat, Mila, Hay, Kyra B., Harii, Saki, Hayward, David C., Lin, Yu, Mihaljević, Morana, Moya, Aurelie, Muir, Paul, Sinniger, Frederic, Smallhorn-West, Patrick, Torda, Gergely, Ragan, Mark A., van Oppen, Madeleine J.H. and Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove (2021). Morphological stasis masks ecologically divergent coral species on tropical reefs. Current Biology, 31 (11), 1-13+. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.028
Eyal, Gal, Eyal-Shaham, Lee and Loya, Yossi (2021). Symbiodiniaceae conduct under natural bleaching stress during advanced gametogenesis stages of a mesophotic coral. Coral Reefs, 40 (3), 959-964. doi: 10.1007/s00338-021-02082-1
Eyal, Gal, Laverick, Jack H., Bongaerts, Pim, Levy, Oren and Pandolfi, John M. (2021). Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef Are Understudied and Underexplored. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 622856. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.622856
Yuval, Matan, Alonso, Inigo, Eyal, Gal, Tchernov, Dan, Loya, Yossi, Murillo, Ana C. and Treibitz, Tali (2021). Repeatable semantic reef-mapping through photogrammetry and label-augmentation. Remote Sensing, 13 (4) 659, 659-19. doi: 10.3390/rs13040659
Baird, Andrew H., Guest, James R., Edwards, Alasdair J., Bauman, Andrew G., Bouwmeester, Jessica, Mera, Hanaka, Abrego, David, Alvarez-Noriega, Mariana, Babcock, Russel C., Barbosa, Miguel B., Bonito, Victor, Burt, John, Cabaitan, Patrick C., Chang, Ching-Fong, Chavanich, Suchana, Chen, Chaolun A., Chen, Chieh-Jhen, Chen, Wei-Jen, Chung, Fung-Chen, Connolly, Sean R., Cumbo, Vivian R., Dornelas, Maria, Doropoulos, Christopher, Eyal, Gal, Eyal-Shaham, Lee, Fadli, Nur, Figueiredo, Joana, Flot, Jean-Francois, Gan, Sze-Hoon ... Yusuf, Syafyudin (2021). An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database. Scientific Data, 8 (1) 35, 35. doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-00793-8
Ben-Zvi, Or, Ofer, Eyal, Eyal, Gal and Loya, Yossi (2020). Experimental evidence of temperature-induced bleaching in two fluorescence morphs of a Red Sea mesophotic coral. Coral Reefs, 40 (1), 187-199. doi: 10.1007/s00338-020-02027-0
Eyal, Gal and Pinheiro, Hudson T. (2020). Mesophotic ecosystems: the link between shallow and deep-sea habitats. Diversity, 12 (11) 411, 411-4. doi: 10.3390/d12110411
Tamir, Raz, Ben-Zvi, Or, Eyal, Gal, Kramer, Netanel and Loya, Yossi (2020). Reciprocal-transplantation between shallow and mesophotic stony corals. Marine Environmental Research, 161 105035, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105035
Eyal-Shaham, Lee, Eyal, Gal, Ben-Zvi, Or, Sakai, Kazuhiko, Harii, Saki, Sinniger, Frederic, Hirose, Mamiko, Cabaitan, Patrick, Bronstein, Omri, Feldman, Bar, Shlesinger, Tom, Levy, Oren and Loya, Yossi (2020). A unique reproductive strategy in the mushroom coral Fungia fungites. Coral Reefs, 39 (6), 1793-1804. doi: 10.1007/s00338-020-02004-7
Wada, Naohisa, Yuasa, Hideaki, Kajitani, Rei, Gotoh, Yasuhiro, Ogura, Yoshitoshi, Yoshimura, Dai, Toyoda, Atsushi, Tang, Sen-Lin, Higashimura, Yukihiro, Sweatman, Hugh, Forsman, Zac, Bronstein, Omri, Eyal, Gal, Thongtham, Nalinee, Itoh, Takehiko, Hayashi, Tetsuya and Yasuda, Nina (2020). A ubiquitous subcuticular bacterial symbiont of a coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish, in the Indo-Pacific. Microbiome, 8 (1) 123, 1-14. doi: 10.1186/s40168-020-00880-3
Kramer, Netanel, Tamir, Raz, Eyal, Gal and Loya, Yossi (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
Laverick, Jack H., Tamir, Raz, Eyal, Gal and Loya, Yossi (2020). A generalized light-driven model of community transitions along coral reef depth gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29 (9) geb.13140, 1554-1564. doi: 10.1111/geb.13140
Meron, Dalit, Maor-landaw, Keren, Eyal, Gal, Elifantz, Hila, Banin, Ehud, Loya, Yossi and Levy, Oren (2020). The complexity of the holobiont in the red sea coral Euphyllia paradivisa under heat stress. Microorganisms, 8 (3) 372, 372. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8030372
Tamir, Raz, Eyal, Gal, Cohen, Itay and Loya, Yossi (2020). Effects of light pollution on the early life stages of the most abundant northern red sea coral. Microorganisms, 8 (2) 193, 1-6. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms8020193
Ben-Zvi, Or, Tamir, Raz, Keren, Nir, Tchernov, Dan, Berman-Frank, Ilana, Kolodny, Yuval, Benaltabet, Tal, Bavli, Harel, Friedman, Mor, Glanz-Idan, Noga, Traugott, Hadar, Loya, Yossi and Eyal, Gal (2020). Photophysiology of a mesophotic coral 3 years after transplantation to a shallow environment. Coral Reefs, 39 (4), 903-913. doi: 10.1007/s00338-020-01910-0
Bongaerts, Pim, Perez-Rosales, Gonzalo, Radice, Veronica Z., Eyal, Gal, Gori, Andrea, Gress, Erika, Hammerman, Nicholas M., Hernandez-Agreda, Alejandra, Laverick, Jack, Muir, Paul, Pinheiro, Hudson, Pyle, Richard L., Rocha, Luiz, Turner, Joseph A. and Booker, Ryan (2019). Mesophotic.org: a repository for scientific information on mesophotic ecosystems. Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2019. doi: 10.1093/database/baz140
Alonso, Iñigo, Yuval, Matan, Eyal, Gal, Treibitz, Tali and Murillo, Ana C. (2019). CoralSeg: learning coral segmentation from sparse annotations. Journal of Field Robotics, 36 (8) rob.21915, 1456-1477. doi: 10.1002/rob.21915
Kramer, Netanel, Eyal, Gal, Tamir, Raz and Loya, Yossi (2019). Upper mesophotic depths in the coral reefs of Eilat, Red Sea, offer suitable refuge grounds for coral settlement. Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 2263, 2263. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-38795-1
Tamir, Raz, Eyal, Gal, Kramer, Netanel, Laverick, Jack H. and Loya, Yossi (2019). Light environment drives the shallow-to-mesophotic coral community transition. Ecosphere, 10 (9) e02839. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2839
Meron, Dalit, Maor-Landaw, Keren, Weizman, Eviatar, Ben-Asher, Hiba Waldman, Eyal, Gal, Banin, Ehud, Loya, Yossi and Levy, Oren (2019). The Algal Symbiont Modifies the Transcriptome of the Scleractinian Coral Euphyllia paradivisa during Heat Stress. Microorganisms, 7 (8) 256, 256. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms7080256
Pinheiro, Hudson T., Eyal, Gal, Shepherd, Bart and Rocha, Luiz A. (2019). Ecological insights from environmental disturbances in mesophotic coral ecosystems. Ecosphere, 10 (4) e02666, e02666. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2666
Ben-Zvi, Or, Eyal, Gal and Loya, Yossi (2019). Response of fluorescence morphs of the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa to ultra-violet radiation. Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 5245, 5245. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41710-3
Eyal-Shaham, Lee, Eyal, Gal, Sakai, Kazuhiko, Nozawa, Yoko, Harii, Saki, Sinniger, Frederic, Bronstein, Omri, Ben-Zvi, Or, Shlesinger, Tom and Loya, Yossi (2019). Repetitive sex change in the stony coral Herpolitha limax across a wide geographic range. Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 2936. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-37619-y
Eyal, Gal, Cohen, Itay, Eyal-Shaham, Lee, Ben-Zvi, Or, Tikochinski, Yaron and Loya, Yossi (2019). Photoacclimation and induction of light-enhanced calcification in the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa. Royal Society Open Science, 6 (2) 180527, 180527. doi: 10.1098/rsos.180527
Lindemann, Yoav, Eyal, Gal and Genin, Amatzia (2019). Intense capture of swarming pteropods by large-polyp corals. Galaxea: Journal of Coral Reef Studies, 21 (1), 9-10. doi: 10.3755/galaxea.21.1_9
Andradi-Brown, Dominic A., Vermeij, Mark J. A., Slattery, Marc, Lesser, Michael, Bejarano, Ivonne, Appeldoorn, Richard, Goodbody-Gringley, Gretchen, Chequer, Alex D., Pitt, Joanna M., Eddy, Corey, Smith, Struan R., Brokovich, Eran, Pinheiro, Hudson T., Jessup, M. Elliott, Shepherd, Bart, Rocha, Luiz A., Curtis-Quick, Jocelyn, Eyal, Gal, Noyes, Timothy J., Rogers, Alex D. and Exton, Dan A. (2017). Large-scale invasion of western Atlantic mesophotic reefs by lionfish potentially undermines culling-based management. Biological Invasions, 19 (3), 939-954. doi: 10.1007/s10530-016-1358-0
Hume, Benjamin C. C., Voolstra, Christian R., Arif, Chatchanit, D'Angelo, Cecilia, Burt, John A., Eyal, Gal, Loya, Yossi and Wiedenmann, Joerg (2016). Ancestral genetic diversity associated with the rapid spread of stress-tolerant coral symbionts in response to Holocene climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 (16), 4416-4421. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1601910113
Beijbom, Oscar, Treibitz, Tali, Kline, David I., Eyal, Gal, Khen, Adi, Neal, Benjamin, Loya, Yossi, Mitchell, B. Greg and Kriegman, David (2016). Improving automated annotation of benthic survey images using wide-band fluorescence. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) 23166. doi: 10.1038/srep23166
Eyal, Gal, Eyal-Shaham, Lee, Cohen, Itay, Tamir, Raz, Ben-Zvi, Or, Sinniger, Frederic and Loya, Yossi (2016). Euphyllia paradivisa, a successful mesophotic coral in the northern Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, Red Sea. Coral Reefs, 35 (1), 91-102. doi: 10.1007/s00338-015-1372-1
Loya, Yossi, Eyal, Gal, Treibitz, Tali, Lesser, Michael P. and Appeldoorn, Richard (2016). Theme section on mesophotic coral ecosystems: advances in knowledge and future perspectives. Coral Reefs, 35 (1), 1-9. doi: 10.1007/s00338-016-1410-7
Eyal-Shaham, Lee, Eyal, Gal, Tamir, Raz and Loya, Yossi (2016). Reproduction, abundance and survivorship of two Alveopora spp. in the mesophotic reefs of Eilat, Red Sea. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) 20964. doi: 10.1038/srep20964
Ben-Zvi, Or, Eyal, Gal and Loya, Yossi (2015). Light-dependent fluorescence in the coral Galaxea fascicularis. Hydrobiologia, 759 (1), 15-26. doi: 10.1007/s10750-014-2063-6
Eyal, Gal, Wiedenmann, Joerg, Grinblat, Mila, D'Angelo, Cecilia, Kramarsky-Winter, Esti, Treibitz, Tali, Ben-Zvi, Or, Shaked, Yonathan, Smith, Tyler B., Harii, Saki, Denis, Vianney, Noyes, Tim, Tamir, Raz and Loya, Yossi (2015). Spectral diversity and regulation of coral fluorescence in a mesophotic reef habitat in the Red Sea. PLoS One, 10 (6) e0128697. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128697
Lavy, Adi, Eyal, Gal, Neal, Benjamin, Keren, Ray, Loya, Yossi and Ilan, Micha (2015). A quick, easy and non-intrusive method for underwater volume and surface area evaluation of benthic organisms by 3D computer modelling. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6 (5), 521-531. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12331
Katz, T., Ginat, H., Eyal, G., Steiner, Z., Braun, Y., Shalev, S. and Goodman-Tchernov, B. N. (2015). Desert flash floods form hyperpycnal flows in the coral-rich Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 417, 87-98. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.02.025
Eyal, G., Eyal-Shaham, L. and Loya, Y. (2011). "Teeth-anchorage": sleeping behavior of a Red Sea filefish on a branching coral. Coral Reefs, 30 (3), 707-707. doi: 10.1007/s00338-011-0766-y
Pasternak, Galia, Ziv, Roni, Eyal, Gal, Shefer, Sigal, Mienis, Henk K., Rittner, Oz and Galil, Bella S. (2011). On the population of Chromodoris annulata Eliot, 1904 (Mollusca: Opistobranchia: Chromodorididae) off the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Aquatic Invasions, 6, S91-S93. doi: 10.3391/ai.2011.6.s1.021
Conference Paper
Amosy, Ohad, Eyal, Gal and Chechik, Gal (2024). Late to the party? On-demand unlabeled personalized federated learning. 2024 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa, HI, United States, 3-8 January 2024. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/wacv57701.2024.00218