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Mesophotic SIGNED

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

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Project "Mesophotic" data sheet

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Coordinator
BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY 

Organization address
address: BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
city: RAMAT GAN
postcode: 52900
website: www.biu.ac.il

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 Coordinator Country Israel [IL]
 Total cost 269˙634 €
 EC max contribution 269˙634 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-GF
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-10-01   to  2021-09-30

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IL (RAMAT GAN) coordinator 269˙634.00
2    THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND AU (BRISBANE) partner 0.00

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 Project objective

Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (MCEs) are characterized by the presence of light-dependent corals, found at depths ranging from 30 m to 150 m in tropical and subtropical regions. These coral communities create massive coral reef structures with diverse but characteristic morphologies and geochemical signatures, which may serve as indicators for sea-level and water composition. In many localities, MCEs are linked physically, and possibly also biologically, to their shallow-water counterparts. Therefore, they have the potential to act as refugia for shallow reefs with a source of propagules, contributing to the resilience of shallower reefs. The prevailing view is that shallow corals are a good indicator of past sea-level and can predict the history of polar ice cap volumes, seawater composition, global temperature, and many other climatic and environmental parameters. Accordingly, sea-level changes have been at the forefront of paleoclimate research on corals for decades, and play a critical role in efforts to predict future sea-level rise in a warming world. However, in recent years, the new discoveries of MCE communities question the assumption that reef corals equate with shallow water, mainly because MCEs extend depth ranges of many corals. In this proposal, I will investigate past and modern MCEs to compare the biodiversity, community composition and geochemical properties of shallow reefs and MCEs. The main goal is to discover community structure dynamics over space and time for improved prediction of the Deep Reef Refugia Hypothesis (DRRH) in an era of global climate change. The uniqueness and advantages of this proposal are largely achieved due to the combination of geology, ecology and molecular approaches. The integrated database is expected to provide a major step forward towards recognizing selection forces that are shaping coral population structure, and through this understanding the potential of MCEs in serving as “lifeboats” for the world’s coral reefs.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2020 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
Photophysiology of a mesophotic coral 3 years after transplantation to a shallow environment
published pages: , ISSN: 0722-4028, DOI: 10.1007/s00338-020-01910-0
Coral Reefs 2020-03-11
2020 Tamir, Eyal, Cohen, Loya
Effects of Light Pollution on the Early Life Stages of the Most Abundant Northern Red Sea Coral
published pages: 193, ISSN: 2076-2607, DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8020193
Microorganisms 8/2 2020-02-13
2019 Iñigo Alonso, Matan Yuval, Gal Eyal, Tali Treibitz, Ana C. Murillo
CoralSeg: Learning coral segmentation from sparse annotations
published pages: , ISSN: 1556-4959, DOI: 10.1002/rob.21915
Journal of Field Robotics 2019-10-29
2019 Hudson T. Pinheiro, Gal Eyal, Bart Shepherd, Luiz A. Rocha
Ecological insights from environmental disturbances in mesophotic coral ecosystems
published pages: e02666, ISSN: 2150-8925, DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2666
Ecosphere 10/4 2019-06-06
2019 Or Ben-Zvi, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya
Response of fluorescence morphs of the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa to ultra-violet radiation
published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41710-3
Scientific Reports 9/1 2019-04-13
2019 Gal Eyal, Itay Cohen, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Or Ben-Zvi, Yaron Tikochinski, Yossi Loya
Photoacclimation and induction of light-enhanced calcification in the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa
published pages: 180527, ISSN: 2054-5703, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180527
Royal Society Open Science 6/2 2019-03-20
2019 Netanel Kramer, Gal Eyal, Raz Tamir, Yossi Loya
Upper mesophotic depths in the coral reefs of Eilat, Red Sea, offer suitable refuge grounds for coral settlement
published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-38795-1
Scientific Reports 9/1 2019-03-12

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