Research Groups | Limnology and Ecology of Wetlands and Freshwater Reservoirs | Prof. Moshe Gophen

PUBLICATIONS (from 1996):

  • Gophen, M. 1996. Factors affected the Bluegreen onset in Lake Kinneret-Water quality deterioration and suggestions for improvements. Water and Irrigation, 351, January 1996,pp. 29-31, 48 (in Hebrew).
  • Gophen, M. and D. Levanon, 1996. The Hula Project: Environmental Perspectives. Preservation of Our World in the Wake of Change, Vol. vi A/B ISEEQS Pub, Jerusalem, Israel, 1996. Editor: Y. Steinberger, pp.652-655.
  • Gophen, M. and A. Nishri, 1997.N2-fixing cyanobacteria bloom in Lake Kinneret. Ecology and Environment. Vol.4 No. 1, March 1997, pp 11-14. (in Hebrew).
  • Gophen, M. 1997. Lake Kinneret Phytoplankton: the legend of stability. Hasade Oct.-Nov.1997. pp 44-47. (in Hebrew).
  • Work, K. and M. Gophen, 1999.Factors that affect he abundance of an invasive cladoceran (Daphnia lumholtzi) in US reservoirs. Freshwater Biology (in Press).
  • Gophen, M. (ed.)1997. Hula Project: Monitoring, Survey and Management Recommendations 1994-1997. Abstracts Booklet published for Hula Project Symposium ,Tel-Hai College, 11/11/1997, 37 p.
  • Nishri, A., T. Zohary, M. Gophen, & D. Wynne, 1998. Lake Kinneret dissolved oxygen regime reflects long term changes in ecosystem functioning. Biogeochemistry. 42: 253-283.
  • Gophen, M.,Y. Yehuda, A. Malnikov, and G. Degani,. 1998. Food composition of the fish community in Lake Agmon. Hydrobiologia, 380: 49-57.
  • Shteinman, B., Kamenir, Y. and M. Gophen. 1999. Hydrodynamics factors effect on benthic communities in Lake Kinneret. Hydrobiologia 408/409: 211-216.
  • Gophen, M. 1999. Prediction of an N2-fixing cyanobacteria bloom in Lake Kinneret (Israel) based on N and P balance. Proceedings of 27th SIL Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 8-14, August, 1998. (in press).
  • Gophen M., 1998. From natural to man-made Hula Wetland (Israel) (1950-1998): utilization and nutrient removal. Proceedings- 6th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control (S.M.T.Tornisielo, ed) 1998. 195-205.
  • Gophen, M.,Y. Yehuda, A. Malnikov, and G. Degani,. 1998. Food composition of the fish community in Lake Agmon. Hydrobiologia, 380: 49-57.
  • Degani, G. ,Y. Yehuda, K. Jackson, and M. Gophen. 1998. Temporal variation in fish community structure in a newly created wetland lake (Lake Agmon) in Israel.Wetland Ecology and Management 6: 151-157.
  • Gophen, M. 1998. Back to corn and wheat: the fate of Hula Project. Ha’aretz, 29th, June, 1998, (in Hebrew).
  • Gophen, M.1998. Level of concern: Lake Kinneret water level. Ha’aretz  28th, January, 1998.(in hebrew).
  • Gophen, M. 1998. As of yet- no concern about the Kinneret Water Level. Ha’aretz, 7th, December, 1998. (in Hebrew).
  • Gophen, M. 1998. 30’s anniversary of the Kinneret Limnological Laboratory. Maim Ve’Hashkaya, Water worker’s magazine. 386: December 1998, pp.36-38.(in Hebrew).
  • Gophen, M., Walline, P., Ostrovsky, I., Azoulay, B. and Easton, J.. 1999. Water quality and Fisheries management in Lake Kinneret, (Israel). In: Theoretical Reservoir Ecology and its applications, (J.G. Tundisi,and M. Straskaba eds.). International Institute of Ecology,Brazilian Academy of Sciences and Backhuys Publishers.493-503.
  • Gophen, M. 1999.The Hula: from natural to man-made wetland.Israel Environmental Bulletin; Winter 1999-5759, Vol. 22. No. 1. pp. 20-23.
  • Gophen, M.1999. Cautios of cyanobacterial toxicity is probably overestimated. Maim Ve’hashkaya, Water worker’s magazine;390: April 1999, pp31-32; (in Hebrew).
  • Work, K.and M. Gophen. 1999. Environmental variability and the population dynamics of the exotic Daphnia lumholtzi and native zooplankton in Lake Texoma, USA. Hydrobiol. 11:23 405.
  • Gophen, M., Val H. Smith, Aminadav Nishri and Stephen T. Threlkeld, 1999. Nitrogen deficiency, phosphorus sufficiency, and the invasion of Lake Kinneret, Israel, by N2-fixing cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon ovalisporum. Aquatic Sciences, 61, pp. 1-14.
  • Gophen, M. 1999. Below -213 is posibble. Ha’aretz, (4/9/99), (in Hebrew). Gophen. M., 2000. Before stop of pumping. Lake Kinneret Water quality concern was overestimated. Ha’aretz, 7/8/2000, (in Hebrew).
  • Gophen. M., 2000.Kinneret Water levels below –213 mbsl in the past: is it possible? Agamit, Nov.-Dec. 2000.147: 23-24.
  • Gophen. M., 2000. Lake Kinneret (Israel) ecosystem: long-term instability or resiliency? Water, Air, and Soil Pollution,Special section: Environmental Challenges, (S. Belkin, Guest editor), Kluwer Academic Publisher; 123/1-4: 323-335.
  • Gophen, M., 2000. The Hula Project: N and P dynamics in Lake Agmon and pollutants removal from the Kinneret inputs.Water Science and Technology Vol. 42 No. 1-2 pp 117-122.
  • Gophen, M., 2000. Nutrient and plant dynamics in Lake Agmon Wetlands (Hula Valley, Israel): a review with emphasis on Typha domingensis (1994-1999). Hydrobiologia 00: 1-12
  • Lienesch, P.W., and M. Gophen. 2001. Size selective predation by Inland Silversides on an exotic cladoceran, Daphnia lumholtzi. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. (in press).
  • Gophen, M., and B. Azoulay, 2001. The trophic status of zooplankton communities in Lake Kinneret (Israel). Proceedings of the International Association of Limnology from the 28th Congress in Melbourn, (in Press).
  • Easton, J. and M. Gophen. 2001. Trophic relations between zooplankton and bleaks (Acanthobrama spp.) in Lake Kinneret (Israel). Proceedings of the International Association of Limnology from the 28th Congress in Melbourn, (in Press).
  • Gophen, M. 2002. The Hula Wetlands in Northern Israel: 1994 - 2000. In: Wetlands Ecosystems in the middle east and USA, (T. Crisman, ed). Univ. of Florida Publish. (in Press).
  • Gophen, M., D. Kaplan, Y. Tsipris, M. Meron,& I. Bar-Ilan. The newly constructed wetland ecosystem of Lake Agmon (Hula Valley, Israel): Functional perspectives. In: Treatment Wetlands for Water Quality Improvement; Quebec 2000 Conference Proceedings (selected papers).(compiled by: J. Pries, CH2M Hill Canada Ltd.pp.53-62.
  • Gophen, M. 2001. Water Level impact on water quality in Lake Kinneret. In Lake Kinneret studies (T. Bergshtein Memotial booklet), pp.103-117 (in Hebrew).
  • Gophen, M. 2002. Under low water level water is insufficient for supply but not damageable for quality. Maim Vehashkaya, Water Worker Association bulletin, No. 427, May 2002.pp. 8 - 13.
    LECTURES PUBLISHED AS ABSTRACTS IN PROCEEDINGS OF SYMPOSIA (from 1996)
  • Gophen M., 1996.The Hula Project. The Annual Meeting of Israel rivers  conference, Tzemach, Jordan-Valley College, 22nd February 1996.
  • Gophen M., 1996. Why Aphanizomenon Bloomed in Lake Kinneret  in 1994 Conference  on water quality, organized by the Israel Society for Ecology and Environmental Quality Science. Technion Haifa, 20/2/96,Israel.
  • Gophen, M., B. Azoulay, J. Easton & P. Walline,1996.Feeding habits of larval bleaks in Lake Kinneret (Israel): An overview. Conference on Trophic interactions of age-0 fish and zooplankton in temperate waters. Workshop of the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG). 5-8, February, 1996, Drezden, Germany.
  • Lienesch, P. W. and M. Gophen, 1996. Size selective predation by Menidia beryllina on Daphnia lumholtzi.  American Society of Limnology and Oceanography ,Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, 16-20, june 1996.
  • Work, K. A. and M. Gophen,1996. The distribution and abundance of the exotic cladoceran, Daphnia lumholtzi, in Lake Texoma, Oklahoma-Texas, USA.American Society of Limnology and Oceanography ,Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, 16-20, june 1996.
  • Gophen, M. and D. Levanon, 1996. The Hula Peatland Project (Israel). The 10th International Peat Congress. 27 May - 2 June 1996, Bremen, Germany.
  • Gophen, M. and B. Azoulay. 1997. The Zooplankton of Lake Kinneret: 28 years record. In: Abstract Booklet published for Anniversary Symposium, Prof. F.D. Por 70th birthday, 23/June, 1997: The Zoogeography of the Levant.
  • Gophen, M. 1997. The role of submerged macrophytes in P-budget of Agmon-Hula. Hula Project Symposium, Tel-Hay 11/11/97.(in Hebrew).
  • Gophen, M. 1998. The limnology of newly created Lake Agmon, Hula Project. The annual meeting of the Israeli Society of ecology, Beer-Sheba, 29-30/6/98.
  • Gophen, M.1998. The Limnology of newly created Lake Agmon-Hula, Israel. International conference on Trophic interactions in shallow freshwater and Brackish lakes, Blossin, Germany, 3-8/August/1998.
  • Gophen, M. Prediction of N2-fixing Cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Kinneret (Israel) based on N and P balance.SIL Congress, Dublin, Ireland 3-8/august,1998.
  • Gophen, M., P. Walline, Y.Z. Yacobi, and I. Ostrovsky. 1998. The zooplankton of Lake Kinneret and the Bleak crisis: 30 years record and food-web structure. Kinneret Symposium, Nof-Ginosar 1-6/September/1998.
  • Gophen, M. B. Shteinman, and Y. Kamenir,1998. Turbulence activity in the lake Kinneret shallows and its impact on zooplankton community. ICES International Symposium on Brackish Water Ecosystems, 25-28/Septamber/1998.
  • Gophen, M. 1998. From natural to man-made Hula (Israel) wetland (1950-1998): Utilization and nutrients removal. 6th International conference on wetland systems for water pollution control. Aguas de Sao Pedro, Brazil, September 27-October 2 1998.
  • Shaham, G. and M. Gophen. 1998. The Hula wetland: from natural to man-made ecosystem, economical management and nutrient removal. The Kinneret Symposium, Nof-Ginosar, 1-6/9/98.
  • Gophen, M. 1998. Risk to the Lake Kinneret Water quality:Yes or no?. Regional meeting of the  Israeli society of ecology. Oranim, 18/2/98.
  • Gophen, M.1998. Lake Kinneret Water quality:fluctuations or risks. The annual meeting of the Israeli society of Water resources. pp25-28.Maagan,17-18/May/98.
  • Gophen, M. 1999.Phytoplankton-Zooplankton-Fish relations in Lake Kinneret. Periodical conference of the Zoological Society of Israel-Biological Department-Oranim-Haifa University on Plant-Animal interrelationships; 8/4/99-Oranim; pp.16-17.
  • Gophen, M. 1) Conference Lecture: Hula and Lake Kinneret; 2) Environmental and Agricultural bridging in the Hula valley: Ecotourism, waste water reuse and Kinneret protection. in international conference on modrn agriculture and environmental qulity, 26-28/4/99. Ramat- Rachel, Israel.
  • Gophen, M. 1) The Hula Project:ecological management and Kinneret protection (G. Shaham, coauthor); 2) The resiliancy of Lake Kinneret ecosystem. in. internatonal annual meeting of the Israeli society of ecology and environmantal quality, Jerusalem, 13-18/5/99.
  • Gophen, M. Nutrient dynamics in the newly created shallow Lake Agmon (Hula), Israel. The 6th symposium on biogeochemistry of wetlands, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 10-14/5/99.
  • Gophen, M. Internal water flows in Daphnia: reduction of outflow vibration together with particle intake.The 5th conference on Cladocera. Plon, Germany, 14-18/9/99.
  • Gophen, M. Top-Down effect in Lake Kinneret (Israel): whole lake experience. International workshop Food web effects of fish in the lake Ecosystem. Rheinsberg-Linow, Germany, 31/5-3/6/2000.
  • Gophen, M. Indicies for water quality in Lake Kinneret: the good and the better.Conference on Water Quality assesment and enhancement. 12-14/3/2000. Tel-Hai Academic College, Israel.
  • Gophen, M. The ecology and management of man-made Lake Agmon wetlands in subtropical semi-arid region, Hula Valley, Israel. INTECOL Quebec, 2000. Quebec City, Canada.
  • Gophen, M., and B. Azoulay, 2001. The trophic status of zooplankton communities in Lake Kinneret (Israel). International Association of Limnology from the 28th Congress in Melbourn.2-10/2/2001.
  • Easton, J. and M. Gophen. 2001. Trophic relations between zooplankton and bleaks (Acanthobrama spp.) in Lake Kinneret (Israel). International Association of Limnology from the 28th Congress in Melbourn,2-10/2/2001.
  • Gophen, M. 11-12/4/2001. The relations between the catchment and Lake Kinneret. Symposium, 50 years anniversary of Hula drying, Keren Kayemet Le’Israel.
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