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Overview

Maoz Fine is affiliated with Bar-Ilan University in Israel and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses extensively on coral and marine ecosystems, with significant contributions in marine and coastal plant biology as well as marine and fisheries research.

The scientist's recent publications cover various aspects of coral thermal tolerance, physiology, and ecosystem dynamics. Notable papers include:

  • Contrasting heat stress response patterns of coral holobionts across the Red Sea suggest distinct mechanisms of thermal tolerance, 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • Fast and pervasive transcriptomic resilience and acclimation of extremely heat-tolerant coral holobionts from the northern Red Sea, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Remarkably high and consistent tolerance of a Red Sea coral to acute and chronic thermal stress exposures, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Intracellular competition for nitrogen controls dinoflagellate population density in corals, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Empirically derived thermal thresholds of four coral species along the Red Sea using a portable and standardized experimental approach, 2022, Coral Reefs

Maoz Fine frequently publishes in journals such as Limnology and Oceanography, Coral Reefs, Frontiers in Marine Science, Molecular Ecology, and Frontiers in Microbiology.

Their research spans several subfields, including ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, immunology, and biotechnology. Major themes in their work concentrate on coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, marine and fisheries research, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and marine sponges and natural products.

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Christian R. Voolstra, Guilhem Banc-Prandi, Renaud Grover, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, and Daniel J. Barshis.

Best Publications

  • Volcanic carbon dioxide vents show ecosystem effects of ocean acidification

    Jason M. Hall-Spencer;Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa;Sophie Martin;Emma Ransome

  • Coral and mollusc resistance to ocean acidification adversely affected by warming

    Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa;Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa;Fanny Houlbrèque;E. Tambutté;F. Boisson

  • Bacterial infection and coral bleaching

    A. Kushmaro;Y. Loya;M. Fine;E. Rosenberg

  • Scleractinian coral species survive and recover from decalcification.

    Maoz Fine;Dan Tchernov

  • Avoiding coral reef functional collapse requires local and global action

    Emma V. Kennedy;Chris T. Perry;Paul R. Halloran;Paul R. Halloran;Roberto Iglesias-Prieto

  • Bleaching of the coral Oculina patagonica by Vibrio AK-1

    A. Kushmaro;E. Rosenberg;M. Fine;Y. Loya

  • A coral reef refuge in the Red Sea.

    Maoz Fine;Hezi Gildor;Amatzia Genin

  • Endolithic algae: an alternative source of photoassimilates during coral bleaching.

    Maoz Fine;Yossi Loya

  • A coral oxygen isotope record from the northern Red Sea documenting NAO, ENSO, and North Pacific teleconnections on Middle East climate variability since the year 1750

    Thomas Felis;Jürgen Pätzold;Yossi Loya;Maoz Fine

  • Physiological and isotopic responses of scleractinian corals to ocean acidification

    Shani Krief;Erica J. Hendy;Maoz Fine;Ruth Yam

  • The impact of reduced pH on the microbial community of the coral Acropora eurystoma.

    Dalit Meron;Elinor Atias;Lilach Iasur Kruh;Hila Elifantz

  • The marine fireworm Hermodice carunculata is a winter reservoir and spring-summer vector for the coral-bleaching pathogen Vibrio shiloi.

    Meir Sussman;Yossi Loya;Maoz Fine;Eugene Rosenberg

  • Effect of temperature on bleaching of the coral Oculina patagonica by Vibrio AK-1

    A. Kushmaro;E. Rosenberg;M. Fine;Y. Ben Haim

  • Increasing the accuracy of surface area estimation using single wax dipping of coral fragments

    C. J. Veal;M. Carmi;M. Fine;O. Hoegh-Guldberg

  • Coral bleaching following wintry weather

    Ove Hoegh-Guldberg;Maoz Fine;William Skirving;Ron Johnstone

  • Response of holosymbiont pigments from the scleractinian coral Montipora monasteriata to short-term heat stress

    Sophie Dove;Juan Carlos Ortiz;Susana Enríquez;Maoz Fine

  • Role of endosymbiotic zooxanthellae and coral mucus in the adhesion of the coral-bleaching pathogen Vibrio shiloi to its host

    Ehud Banin;Tomer Israely;Maoz Fine;Yossi Loya

  • Disease and cell death in white syndrome of Acroporid corals on the Great Barrier Reef

    T. D. Ainsworth;E. C. Kvennefors;L. L. Blackall;M. Fine

  • Changes in coral microbial communities in response to a natural pH gradient.

    Dalit Meron;Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa;Ross Cunning;Andrew C Baker

  • Common reef-building coral in the Northern Red Sea resistant to elevated temperature and acidification.

    Thomas Krueger;Noa Horwitz;Julia Bodin;Maria-Evangelia Giovani

  • Coral Disease Diagnostics: What's between a Plague and a Band?

    T. D. Ainsworth;E. Kramasky-Winter;Y. Loya;O. Hoegh-Guldberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Yossi Loya
Yossi Loya Tel Aviv University
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg University of Queensland
Anders Meibom
Anders Meibom École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Eugene Rosenberg
Eugene Rosenberg Tel Aviv University
George Roff
George Roff University of Queensland
Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa
Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto Pennsylvania State University
Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Jason M. Hall-Spencer Plymouth University
Tracy D. Ainsworth
Tracy D. Ainsworth University of New South Wales
Ariel Kushmaro
Ariel Kushmaro Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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