Yigal Alon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory Ilia Ostrovsky ostrovsky@ocean.org.il Tel: 04 – 6721444 ext. 216 Senior Scientist Ph.D. 1983, Zoological Institute, Leningrad, USSR At IOLR since 1991

Research interests:
Coupling of physical, biological, and sedimentological processes; formation of spatial heterogeneity in aquatic ecosystems; population ecology and productivity of fish, benthos and plankton; methane ebullition; hydroacoustics.

Selected publications:
Ostrovsky, I. (2009). Hydroacoustic assessment of fish abundance in the presence of gas bubbles. Limnol. Oceanogr.: Methods 7:309–318.

Ostrovsky, I. (2009). The acoustic quantification of fish in the presence of methane bubbles in the stratified Lake Kinneret, Israel. ICES J. Mar. Sci., doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsp103.

Ostrovsky, I. and A. Sukenik (2008). Spatial heterogeneity of biogeochemical parameters in a subtropical lake. In Monitoring and Modeling Lakes and Coastal Environments (P. K. Mohanty, ed.). Springer, 248 p., ISBN: 978-1-4020-6645-0: 79-90.

Ostrovsky, I. McGinnis, D. F., Lapidus, L., and Eckert, W. (2008). Quantifying gas ebullition with echo sounder: the role of methane transport with bubbles in a medium-sized lake. Limnol. Oceanogr.: Methods 6:105–118.

Yacobi, Y. and Ostrovsky, I. (2008). Downward flux of organic matter and pigments in Lake Kinneret (Israel): relationships between phytoplankton and the material collected in sediment traps. J. Plankt. Res. 30: 1189–1202; doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbn070.

Ostrovsky, I. (2005). Assessing mortality changes from size-frequency curves. J. Fish Biol. 66:1624-1632.

Ostrovsky, I. (2003). Methane bubbles in Lake Kinneret: Quantification, temporal, and spatial heterogeneity. Limnol. Oceanogr. 48:1030-1036.

Ostrovsky, I. and Yacobi, Y. (1999). Organic matter and pigments in surface sediments: possible mechanisms of their horizontal distributions in a stratified lake. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56:1001-1010.

Ostrovsky, I. and Walline, P. (1998). Growth and production of the dominant pelagic fish, Acanthobrama terraesanctae (Cyprinidae), in subtropical Lake Kinneret (Israel). J. Fish Biol. 54:18-32.

Ostrovsky, I. , Yacobi, Y.Z., Walline, P. and Kalikhman, Y. (1996). Seiche-induced water mixing: its impact on lake productivity. Limnol. Oceanogr. 41:323-332.

Ostrovsky, I. (1995). The parabolic pattern of animal growth: determination of equation parameters and their temperature dependencies. Freshw. Biol. 33:357-371.