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Jacob Douek, Giovanni Giallongo, Zoya Harbuzov, Bella S. Galil and Baruch Rinkevich
The rhizostomatid scyphozoan Rhopilema nomadica is one of the most notorious marine invasive species established in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Using seven microsatellite loci, here, we examined the population genetic structures on 587 individual tiss...
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Dov Zviely, Dror Zurel, Dor Edelist, Menashe Bitan and Ehud Spanier
Sand beach nourishment (BN) is one of the commonest ?soft solutions? for shore protection and restoration. Yet it may have ecological consequences. Can this practice enhance the introduction and dispersal of non-indigenous species (NIS)? There has been l...
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Ali Darvishi Boloorani, Mehdi Darvishi, Qihao Weng and Xiangtong Liu
Urban infrastructures have become imperative to human life. Any damage to these infrastructures as a result of detrimental activities would accrue huge economical costs and severe casualties. War in particular is a major anthropogenic calamity with immen...
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Menashe Bitan, Ehud Galili, Ehud Spanier and Dov Zviely
Since 2011, beach nourishment has become the preferred solution for mitigating coastal erosion along the Mediterranean coast of Israel, as it is considered ?soft? and environmentally friendly. However, using fine sand for nourishment in Israel without su...
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Ziv Tayber, Aaron Meilijson, Zvi Ben-Avraham and Yizhaq Makovsky
To estimate the potential inventory of natural gas hydrates (NGH) in the Levant Basin, southeastern Mediterranean Sea, we correlated the gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ), modeled with local thermodynamic parameters, with seismic indicators of gas. A com...
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Bernhard Lucke, Joel Roskin, Kim André Vanselow, Hendrik J. Bruins, Nizar Abu-Jaber, Katleen Deckers, Susanne Lindauer, Naomi Porat, Paula J. Reimer, Rupert Bäumler, Tali Erickson-Gini and Paula Kouki
Loess accumulated in the Negev desert during the Pleistocene and primary and secondary loess remains cover large parts of the landscape. Holocene loess deposits are however absent. This could be due low accumulation rates, lack of preservation, and highe...
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Yochanan Kushnir and Mordechai Stein
This paper examines the hydroclimate history of the Eastern Mediterranean (EM) region during the 10th to 14th centuries C.E., a period known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), a time of significant historical turmoil and change in the region. The stu...
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Daniele Sampietro, Ahmed Hamdi Mansi and Martina Capponi
The study of the discontinuity between the Earth crust and upper mantle, the so-called Moho, and of the lithospheric architecture in general, has several important applications in exploration geophysics. For instance, it is used to facilitate the inversi...
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Michel Bakalowicz
Coastal karst aquifers are common in the Mediterranean basin. With their significant potential storage capacity, they are an attractive groundwater resource in areas where the water demand is the most important. They discharge either at the coastal zone ...
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Susanne Rutishauser, Stefan Erasmi, Ralph Rosenbauer and Ralf Buchbach
The fertile alluvial plain of Cilicia is bordered by the Taurus and Amanus mountain ranges to the west, north and east and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Since the Neolithic Period, Plain Cilicia was an important interface between Anatolia and the L...
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