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 in lakes; the role of water motions and mixing on productivity, sedimentation and resuspension; studies of ecology, population dynamics, and productivity of fish, benthic and planktonic animals in lakes.

Selected publications:
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. (2000). The upper-most layer of bottom sediments: sampling and artifacts. Arc. Hydrobiol. 55:243-255.

Nishri, A., Imberger, J., Eckert, W., Ostrovsky, I. and Geifman, J. (2000). The physical regime and the respective biogeochemical processes the lower water mass of Lake Kinneret. Limnol. Oceanogr. 45:971-981.

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.

Kalikhman, Y. and Ostrovsky, I. (1997). Patchy distribution fields: survey design and adequacy of reconstruction. ICES J. Mar. Sci. 54:809-818.

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.

Ostrovsky, I., Gophen, M. and Kalikhman, Y. (1993). Distribution, growth, production and the ecological significance of the clam Unio terminalis in Lake Kinneret, Israel. Hydrobiologia 271:49-63.