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Ehud Spanier is a researcher affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel, specializing in Environmental Science with a focus on ecological and marine studies. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Archeology, Environmental Chemistry, and Aquatic Science.

Spanier's research covers a range of topics primarily centered on marine and coastal environments. Key areas include crustacean biology and ecology, coral and marine ecosystem studies, marine and fisheries research, marine ecology with emphasis on invasive species, maritime and coastal archaeology, fish biology and ecology, and coastal and marine dynamics.

The scientist has contributed multiple papers to prominent journals. Notable recent publications authored by Spanier include:

  • "Key Environmental Impacts along the Mediterranean Coast of Israel in the Last 100 Years" (2022), Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
  • "Marine protected areas - a review of their potential effects on lobster population size & structure and fisheries management" (2024), Fisheries Research

Spanier often collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Dov Zviely, Jason S. Goldstein, Menashe Bitan, Tamar Guy-Haim, and Anastasiia Iakovleva.

Most of Spanier's work has been published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, with additional contributions appearing in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Mediterranean Marine Science, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and Fisheries Research.

Best Publications

  • Maritime Hunter-Gatherers: Ecology and Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]

    David R. Yesner;William S. Ayres;David L. Carlson;Richard S. Davis

  • Restructuring the Sea: profound shifts in the world's most invaded marine ecosystem

    Dor Edelist;Gil Rilov;Daniel Golani;James T. Carlton

  • The Scyphomedusae of the Mediterranean coast of Israel, including two Lessepsian migrants new to the Mediterranean

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  • Fish Processing During the Early Holocene: A Taphonomic Case Study from Coastal Israel

    I. Zohar;T. Dayan;E. Galili;E. Spanier

  • Gregariousness and sociality in spiny lobsters: implications for den habitation

    Richard K. Zimmer-Faust;Ehud Spanier

  • Sources, composition and spatial distribution of marine debris along the Mediterranean coast of Israel.

    Galia Pasternak;Dov Zviely;Christine A. Ribic;Asaf Ariel

  • Lessepsian migration: a continuous biogeographical process

    Ehud Spanier;Bella S Galil

  • Aspects of species recognition by sound in four species of damselfishes, genus Eupomacentrus (Pisces: Pomacentridae).

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  • Heavy metal levels in bottlenose and striped dolphins off the Mediterranean coast of Israel.

    Mia Roditi-Elasar;Dan Kerem;Hava Hornung;Nurit Kress

  • Shelter preferences in the Mediterranean slipper lobster: effects of physical properties

    E. Spanier;G. Almog-Shtayer

  • Behavior of juvenile American lobsters, Homarus americanus, under predation risk

    E. Spanier;T. P. McKenzie;J. S. Cobb;M. Clancy

  • The influence of caged mariculture on the early development of sublittoral fouling communities: a pan-European study

    E.J. Cook;K.D. Black;M.D.J. Sayer;C.J. Cromey

  • Offense versus defense: responses of three morphological types of lobsters to predation

    Diana E. Barshaw;Kari L. Lavalli;Ehud Spanier

  • In situ biofiltration: a means to limit the dispersal of effluents from marine finfish cage aquaculture

    Dror L. Angel;Noa Eden;Stephen Breitstein;Amir Yurman

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of catch and discards of the Israeli Mediterranean trawl fishery in the early 1990s: ecological and conservation perspectives

    Dor Edelist;Oren Sonin;Daniel Golani;Gil Rilov

  • Some physical properties of shelter that influence den preference in spiny lobsters

    Ehud Spanier;Richard K. Zimmer-Faust

  • The Glycymeris query along the coast and shallow shelf of Israel, southeast Mediterranean

    D. Sivan;M. Potasman;A. Almogi-Labin;D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer

  • Seasonality and shelter selection by the slipper lobster Scyllarides latus in the southeastern Mediterranean

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  • THE USE OF DISTRESS CALLS TO REPEL NIGHT HERONS (NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX) FROM FISH PONDS

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  • An application of artificial reefs to reduce organic enrichment caused by net-cage fish farming: preliminary results

    Dror L. Angel;Ehud Spanier

  • Ciguatoxin-like substances in edible fish on the eastern Mediterranean

    Yedidia Bentur;Ehud Spanier

  • A concise review of lobster utilization by worldwide human populations from prehistory to the modern era

    Ehud Spanier;Kari L. Lavalli;Jason S. Goldstein;Jason S. Goldstein;Johan C. Groeneveld

  • δ15N as a natural tracer of particulate nitrogen effluents released from marine aquaculture

    Sonja Lojen;Ehud Spanier;Anat Tsemel;Timor Katz

  • Swimming of the Mediterranean slipper lobster

    Ehud Spanier;Daniel Weihs;Galit Almog-Shtayer

  • The Biology and Fisheries of the Slipper Lobster

    Kari L. Lavalli;Ehud Spanier

Frequent Co-Authors

Dror L. Angel
Dror L. Angel University of Haifa
Alenka Malej
Alenka Malej National Institute of Biology
Daniel Golani
Daniel Golani Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gil Rilov
Gil Rilov Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Manolis Tsapakis
Manolis Tsapakis University of Crete
Baruch Rinkevich
Baruch Rinkevich Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Bella S. Galil
Bella S. Galil Tel Aviv University
Ioannis Karakassis
Ioannis Karakassis University of Crete
Christine A. Ribic
Christine A. Ribic University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tamar Dayan
Tamar Dayan Steinhardt Museum of Natural History

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