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Amatzia Genin is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and focuses their research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their scholarly output spans several subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics addressed in their work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine and fisheries research, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, Marine and coastal plant biology, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

Genin has published in a variety of scientific venues, with frequent contributions to Frontiers in Marine Science, the Journal of Experimental Biology, Coral Reefs, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Genin include:

  • Rapid onsets of warming events trigger mass mortality of coral reef fish, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Reef-building corals farm and feed on their photosynthetic symbionts, 2023, Nature
  • Science, Diplomacy, and the Red Sea's Unique Coral Reef: It's Time for Action, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • The potential role of turbulence in modulating the migration of demersal zooplankton, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • In situ three-dimensional video tracking of tagged individuals within site-attached social groups of coral-reef fish, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography Methods

Their frequent co-authors include Kota Ishikawa, Heng Wu, Satoshi Mitarai, Yossi Loya, and Dmitri Churilov.

Genin's research features a concentration on marine ecosystems and organismal interactions within these environments, often addressing complex ecological dynamics and environmental changes.

Best Publications

  • Bio-physical coupling in the formation of zooplankton and fish aggregations over abrupt topographies

    Amatzia Genin

  • Corals on seamount peaks provide evidence of current acceleration over deep-sea topography

    Amatzia Genin;Paul K. Dayton;Peter F. Lonsdale;Fred N. Spiess

  • Vertical mixing and coral death in the Red Sea following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo

    A. Genin;B. Lazar;S. Brenner

  • A Review of the Effects of Seamounts on Biological Processes

    George W. Boehlert;Amatzia Genin

  • In situ feeding and element removal in the symbiont-bearing sponge Theonella swinhoei: Bulk DOC is the major source for carbon

    Gitai Yahel;Jonathan H. Sharp;Dominique Marie;Clivia Häse

  • Swimming against the flow: a mechanism of zooplankton aggregation

    Amatzia Genin;Jules S. Jaffe;Ruth Reef;Claudio Richter

  • A coral reef refuge in the Red Sea.

    Maoz Fine;Hezi Gildor;Amatzia Genin

  • Flow enhances photosynthesis in marine benthic autotrophs by increasing the efflux of oxygen from the organism to the water

    Tali Mass;Amatzia Genin;Uri Shavit;Mor Grinstein

  • Boundary layer turbulence and flow structure over a fringing coral reef

    Matthew A. Reidenbach;Stephen G. Monismith;Jeffrey R. Koseff;Gitai Yahel

  • Flow-dependent herbivory and growth in zooxanthellae-free soft corals

    Katharina E. Fabricius;Amatzia Genin;Yehuda Benayahu

  • Dynamics of temperature and chlorophyll structures above a seamount: an oceanic experiment

    Amatzia Genin;George W. Boehlert

  • Phytoplankton distribution and grazing near coral reefs

    Gitai Yahel;Anton F. Post;Katharina Fabricius;Dominique Marie

  • Interactions of migrating zooplankton with shallow topography: predation by rockfishes and intensification of patchiness

    Amatzia Genin;Loren Haury;Paul Greenblatt

  • Herbivory in asymbiotic soft corals.

    Katharina E. Fabricius;Yehuda Benayahu;Amatzia Genin

  • Rapid onsets of warming events trigger mass mortality of coral reef fish.

    Amatzia Genin;Liraz Levy;Galit Sharon;Dionysios E. Raitsos

  • The interplay between upwelling and deep convective mixing in determining the seasonal phytoplankton dynamics in the Gulf of Aqaba: Evidence from SeaWiFS and MODIS

    Rochelle G. Labiosa;Kevin R. Arrigo;Amatzia Genin;Stephen G. Monismith

  • Zooplanktivory by a nocturnal coral‐reef fish: Effects of light, flow, and prey density

    Roi Holzman;Amatzia Genin

  • Near- bottom depletion of zooplankton over coral reefs: I: diurnal dynamics and size distribution

    Ruthy Yahel;Ruthy Yahel;Gitai Yahel;Gitai Yahel;Amatzia Genin

  • Aeration of corals by sleep‐swimming fish

    Rotem Goldshmid;Roi Holzman;Daniel Weihs;Amatzia Genin

  • Seamount Plankton Dynamics

    Amatzia Genin;John F. Dower

  • Zooplankton patch dynamics: daily gap formation over abrupt topography

    Amatzia Genin;Charles Greene;Loren Haury;Peter Wiebe

  • Thermally Driven Exchanges between a Coral Reef and the Adjoining Ocean

    Stephen G. Monismith;Amatzia Genin;Matthew A. Reidenbach;Gitai Yahel

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen G. Monismith
Stephen G. Monismith Stanford University
Jeffrey R. Koseff
Jeffrey R. Koseff Stanford University
Fabien Lombard
Fabien Lombard Villefranche Oceanographic Laboratory
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Jacobs University
Dominique Marie
Dominique Marie Sorbonne University
Katharina Fabricius
Katharina Fabricius Australian Institute of Marine Science
Boaz Lazar
Boaz Lazar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yossi Loya
Yossi Loya Tel Aviv University
Yehuda Benayahu
Yehuda Benayahu Tel Aviv University
Anders Meibom
Anders Meibom École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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