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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
86
Citations
25262
World Ranking
600
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Israel Leader Award
  • 2015 - EMET Prize in Exact Sciences: Environmental Studies for pioneering and groundbreaking achievements in coral reef research and for his seminal contribution in developing quantitative methodologies for assessment of the biodiversity and health of coral communities, and knowledge of their reproductive strategies
  • 2003 - Landau Prize for original outstanding research contribution to the field of Ecology and Environmental Quality
  • 2000 - Darwin Medal, International Society for Coral Reef Studies (ISRS) for life contribution to coral reef research

Overview

Yossi Loya is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and focuses primarily on research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their extensive work covers key areas such as coral and marine ecosystems, marine and coastal plant biology, and broader marine and fisheries research.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • "An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database", 2021, Scientific Data
  • "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
  • "A generalized light-driven model of community transitions along coral reef depth gradients", 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Coral Morphology Portrays the Spatial Distribution and Population Size-Structure Along a 5-100 m Depth Gradient", 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yossi Loya include:

  • Gal Eyal
  • Or Ben-Zvi
  • Tom Shlesinger
  • Netanel Kramer
  • Raz Tamir

The scientist has contributed regularly to several publication venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Coral Reefs
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Communications Biology
  • Ecology

Yossi Loya's main fields of study encompass:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of study further refine this expertise, including:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The core topics of their research address:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Crustacean biology and ecology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Best Publications

  • Coral bleaching: the winners and the losers

    Y. Loya;K. Sakai;K. Yamazato;Y. Nakano

  • The Coral Probiotic Hypothesis

    Leah Reshef;Omry Koren;Yossi Loya;Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg

  • Community structure and species diversity of hermatypic corals at Eilat, Red Sea

    Y. Loya;Y. Loya

  • Toxicopathological Effects of the Sunscreen UV Filter, Oxybenzone (Benzophenone-3), on Coral Planulae and Cultured Primary Cells and Its Environmental Contamination in Hawaii and the U.S. Virgin Islands

    C. A. Downs;Esti Kramarsky-Winter;Esti Kramarsky-Winter;Roee Segal;John Fauth

  • Revisiting the winners and the losers a decade after coral bleaching

    R. van Woesik;K. Sakai;A. Ganase;Y. Loya

  • Bacterial infection and coral bleaching

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

  • Coral health and disease

    Eugene Rosenberg;Yossi Loya

  • Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes

    Camilo Mora;Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Arturo Ayala Bocos;Paula M. Ayotte;Paula M. Ayotte

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

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

  • Vibrio shiloi sp. nov., the causative agent of bleaching of the coral Oculina patagonica.

    A Kushmaro;E Banin;Y Loya;E Stackebrandt

  • Climate change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers

    Christian Wild;Ove Hoegh-Guldberg;Malik S. Naumann;M. Florencia Colombo-Pallotta

  • RECOLONIZATION OF RED SEA CORALS AFFECTED BY NATURAL CATASTROPHES AND MAN-MADE PERTURBATIONS'

    Y. Loya

  • Effects of Oil Pollution on Coral Reef Communities

    Y. Loya;B. Rinkevich

  • Coral community reproductive patterns: red sea versus the great barrier reef.

    Y. Shlesinger;Y. Loya

  • The Reproduction of the Red Sea Coral Stylophora pistillata. I. Gonads and Planulae

    B. Rinkevich;Y. Loya

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

    Maoz Fine;Yossi Loya

  • The Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata is an r strategist

    Y. Loya

  • Extreme Diel Fluctuations of Oxygen in Diffusive Boundary Layers Surrounding Stony Corals

    N Shashar;Y Cohen;Y 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Ariel Kushmaro
Ariel Kushmaro Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Eugene Rosenberg
Eugene Rosenberg Tel Aviv University
Yehuda Benayahu
Yehuda Benayahu Tel Aviv University
Yoel Kashman
Yoel Kashman Tel Aviv University
Jürgen Pätzold
Jürgen Pätzold University of Bremen
Baruch Rinkevich
Baruch Rinkevich Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Aldo Shemesh
Aldo Shemesh Weizmann Institute of Science
Avigdor Abelson
Avigdor Abelson Tel Aviv University
Thomas Felis
Thomas Felis University of Bremen

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