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Avigdor Abelson

Avigdor Abelson

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
3154
World Ranking
8153
National Ranking
45

Overview

Avigdor Abelson is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including ecology, oceanography, aquatic science, global and planetary change, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Abelson's work addresses topics related to coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, and seaweed-derived bioactive compounds. They also explore marine and fisheries research, coastal and marine management, algal biology and biofuel production, as well as protein hydrolysis and bioactive peptides.

The scientist has contributed to publications in various venues, with frequent appearances in Frontiers in Marine Science, Marine Drugs, Fishes, Preprints.org, and Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies.

  • Challenges for Restoration of Coastal Marine Ecosystems in the Anthropocene, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Enhancing Bioproducts in Seaweeds via Sustainable Aquaculture: Antioxidant and Sun-Protection Compounds, 2022, Marine Drugs
  • Enrichment of nutritional compounds in seaweeds via abiotic stressors in integrated aquaculture, 2022, Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies
  • Can wrecks serve as exploitable surrogate habitats for degraded natural reefs?, 2021, Marine Environmental Research
  • Editorial: Marine ecosystem restoration (MER) - a call for a more inclusive paradigm, 2023, Frontiers in Marine Science

Their frequent coauthors include Doron Yehoshua Ashkenazi, Shoshana Ben-Valid, Eitan Salomon, Álvaro Israel, and C.A. Sánchez-Caballero, each collaborating on multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Settlement of Marine Organisms in Flow

    Avigdor Abelson;Mark Denny

  • Collapse of the echinoid Paracentrotus lividus populations in the Eastern Mediterranean—result of climate change?

    Erez Yeruham;Gil Rilov;Muki Shpigel;Avigdor Abelson

  • Flow patterns induced by substrata and body morphologies of benthic organisms, and their roles in determining availability of food particles

    Avigdor Abelson;Touvia Miloh;Yossi Loya

  • Challenges for Restoration of Coastal Marine Ecosystems in the Anthropocene

    Avigdor Abelson;Daniel C. Reed;Graham J. Edgar;Carter S. Smith

  • Upgrading Marine Ecosystem Restoration Using Ecological‐Social Concepts

    Avigdor Abelson;Benjamin S. Halpern;Daniel C. Reed;Robert J. Orth

  • Marine molluscs and fish as biomarkers of pollution stress in littoral regions of the Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea and North Sea

    Vladimir Bresler;Vera Bissinger;Avigdor Abelson;Halim Dizer

  • Single step production of bioethanol from the seaweed Ulva rigida using sonication

    Leor Korzen;Indra Neel Pulidindi;Indra Neel Pulidindi;Alvaro Israel;Avigdor Abelson

  • Comparison of the development of coral and fish communities on rock-aggregated artificial reefs in Eilat, Red Sea

    Avigdor Abelson;Yehiam Shlesinger

  • The Life of a Sponge in a Sandy Lagoon

    Micha Ilan;Avigdor Abelson

  • Red to Mediterranean Sea bioinvasion: natural drift through the Suez Canal, or anthropogenic transport?

    Sigal Shefer;Avigdor Abelson;Ofer Mokady;Eli Geffen

  • Coral recruitment to the reefs of Eilat, Red Sea: temporal and spatial variation, and possible effects of anthropogenic disturbances.

    Avigdor Abelson;Ronen Olinky;Steve Gaines

  • Growth, protein and carbohydrate contents in Ulva rigida and Gracilaria bursa-pastoris integrated with an offshore fish farm

    Leor Korzen;Leor Korzen;Avigdor Abelson;Alvaro Israel

  • Hydrodynamic impediments to settlement of marine propagules. and adhesive-filament solutions

    Avigdor Abelson;Daniel Weihs;Yossi Loya

  • How Plastic Can Phenotypic Plasticity Be? The Branching Coral Stylophora pistillata as a Model System

    Lee Shaish;Lee Shaish;Avigdor Abelson;Baruch Rinkevich

  • SETTLEMENT IN FLOW: UPSTREAM EXPLORATION OF SUBSTRATA BY WEAKLY SWIMMING LARVAE

    Avigdor Abelson

  • Marine molluscs in environmental monitoring

    Tamar Feldstein;Yoel Kashman;Avigdor Abelson;Lev Fishelson

  • A novel two‐stage seaweed integrated multi‐trophic aquaculture

    Doron Yehoshua Ashkenazi;Doron Yehoshua Ashkenazi;Alvaro Israel;Avigdor Abelson

  • Expanding marine protected areas to include degraded coral reefs

    A. Abelson;P.A. Nelson;G.J. Edgar;N. Shashar

  • Mass Transport from Pollution Sources to Remote Coral Reefs in Eilat (Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea)

    Avigdor Abelson;Boris Shteinman;Maoz Fine;Semion Kaganovsky

  • Ocean warming and tropical invaders erode the performance of a key herbivore.

    E. Yeruham;E. Yeruham;M. Shpigel;A. Abelson;G. Rilov;G. Rilov

  • Macroalgae in the coral reefs of Eilat (Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea) as a possible indicator of reef degradation.

    Karnit Bahartan;Mohammad Zibdah;Yousef Ahmed;Alvaro Israel

Frequent Co-Authors

Aharon Gedanken
Aharon Gedanken Bar-Ilan University
Yossi Loya
Yossi Loya Tel Aviv University
Yair Achituv
Yair Achituv Bar-Ilan University
Gil Rilov
Gil Rilov Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Giacomo Bernardi
Giacomo Bernardi University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael W. Beck
Michael W. Beck University of California, Santa Cruz
Nadav Shashar
Nadav Shashar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Jonathan Belmaker
Jonathan Belmaker Tel Aviv University
Graham J. Edgar
Graham J. Edgar University of Tasmania
Laura Airoldi
Laura Airoldi University of Padua

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