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52
Citations
13534
World Ranking
3410
National Ranking
37

Overview

Tamar Zohary is affiliated with the Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research. The research work spans multiple domains related to Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a marked focus on aquatic and marine ecosystems.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of study associated with their publications cover:

  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science

The core research topics comprise:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tamar Zohary include:

  • Rita Adrian
  • Orlane Anneville
  • Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki
  • Stephen J. Thackeray
  • Peeter Nõges

Publications appear regularly in several venues, prominently:

  • Hydrobiologia
  • Inland Waters
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology

Examples of recent papers authored or coauthored by Tamar Zohary include:

  • Temperature and the size of freshwater phytoplankton, 2020, Hydrobiologia
  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Causal networks of phytoplankton diversity and biomass are modulated by environmental context, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Life in suspension and its impact on phytoplankton morphology: an homage to Colin S. Reynolds, 2020, Hydrobiologia
  • The future of temporary wetlands in drylands under global change, 2021, Inland Waters

Best Publications

  • BIOVOLUME CALCULATION FOR PELAGIC AND BENTHIC MICROALGAE

    Helmut Hillebrand;Claus-Dieter Dürselen;David Kirschtel;Utsa Pollingher

  • Temperature effects on photosynthetic capacity, respiration, and growth rates of bloom-forming cyanobacteria

    Richard D. Robarts;Tamar Zohary

  • Ecological impacts of global warming and water abstraction on lakes and reservoirs due to changes in water level and related changes in salinity

    Erik Jeppesen;Sandra Brucet;Sandra Brucet;Luigi Naselli-Flores;Eva Papastergiadou

  • Nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic eastern Mediterranean.

    T. F. Thingstad;M. D. Krom;R. F. C. Mantoura;R. F. C. Mantoura;G. A. F. Flaten

  • Ecological impacts of excessive water level fluctuations in stratified freshwater lakes

    Tamar Zohary;Ilia Ostrovsky

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

    Jason D. Stockwell;Jonathan P. Doubek;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian;Orlane Anneville

  • Seasonality of stable carbon isotopes within the pelagic food web of Lake Kinneret

    Tamar Zohary;Jonathan Erez;Moshe Gophen;Ilana Berman-Frank

  • Experimental study of microbial P limitation in the eastern Mediterranean

    Tamar Zohary;Richard D. Robarts

  • A numerical simulation of the role of zooplankton in C, N and P cycling in Lake Kinneret, Israel

    Louise C. Bruce;David Hamilton;Jörg Imberger;Gideon Gal

  • Implementation of ecological modeling as an effective management and investigation tool: Lake Kinneret as a case study

    G. Gal;M.R. Hipsey;A. Parparov;U. Wagner

  • Response of East Mediterranean surface water to Saharan dust: On-board microcosm experiment and field observations

    Barak Herut;Tamar Zohary;M.D. Krom;R. Fauzi C. Mantoura

  • Chlorophyll distribution throughout the southeastern Mediterranean in relation to the physical structure of the water mass

    Y.Z. Yacobi;T. Zohary;N. Kress;A. Hecht

  • Changes to the phytoplankton assemblage of Lake Kinneret after decades of a predictable, repetitive pattern

    Tamar Zohary

  • Simulating the thermal dynamics of Lake Kinneret

    Gideon Gal;Jorg Imberger;Tamar Zohary;Jason Antenucci

  • Ultraphytoplankton in the eastern Mediterranean Sea: towards deriving phytoplankton biomass from flow cytometric measurements of abundance, fluorescence and light scatter

    Wkw Li;T. Zohary;YZ Yacobi;AM Wood

  • P-limited bacteria but N and P co-limited phytoplankton in the Eastern Mediterranean—a microcosm experiment

    Tamar Zohary;Barak Herut;Michael D. Krom;R. Fauzi C. Mantoura

  • Microcystis Aeruginosa and Underwater Light Attenuation in a Hypertrophic Lake (Hartbeespoort Dam, South Africa)

    R. D. Robarts;T. Zohary

  • Fact or Fiction-Bacterial Growth Rates and Production as Determined by [methyl-3H]-Thymidine?

    Richard D. Robarts;Tamar Zohary

  • Phytoplankton species diversity control through competitive exclusion and physical disturbances

    K. David Hambright;Tamar Zohary

  • Bacterial abundance, biomass, and production in relation to phytoplankton biomass in the Levantine Basin of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea

    Robarts Rd;Zohary T;Waiser Mj;Yacobi Yz

  • Temperature and the size of freshwater phytoplankton

    Tamar Zohary;Giovanna Flaim;Ulrich Sommer

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Robarts
Richard D. Robarts National Water Research Institute
Cliff S. Law
Cliff S. Law National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Paraskevi Pitta
Paraskevi Pitta Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Michael D. Krom
Michael D. Krom University of Haifa
Zvy Dubinsky
Zvy Dubinsky Bar-Ilan University
Anastasios Tselepides
Anastasios Tselepides University of Piraeus
Nurit Kress
Nurit Kress Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Barak Herut
Barak Herut Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Ilana Berman-Frank
Ilana Berman-Frank University of Haifa
T. Frede Thingstad
T. Frede Thingstad University of Bergen

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