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ILIA OSTROVSKY
May 2013
List of Selected Publications
Ostrovsky, I., A. Rimmer, Y.Z. Yacobi, A. Nishri, A. Sukenik, O. Hadas, and T. Zohary (2013). Longterm changes in the Lake Kinneret ecosystem: the effects of climate change and anthropogenic
factors. In Climatic Change and Global Warming of Inland Waters: Impacts and Mitigation for
Ecosystems and Societies (Eds C.R. Goldman, M. Kumagai, R. D. Robarts), pp. 271-293. John
Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Online ISBN: 9781118470596, DOI: 10.1002/9781118470596.ch16
Blair, J.M., Hicks, B.J., Pitkethley,R., Ling,N., Ostrovsky, I., Rowe, D. (2013). A bioenergetic assessment
of the influence of stocking practices on rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) growth and
consumption in a New Zealand lake. Freshwater Biology 58: 967-985.
Recknagel, F., Ostrovsky, I., Cao, H., Zohary, T. (2013) Inductive reasoning and prediction of aquatic
ecosystems by evolutionary computation: Ecological relationships, thresholds and time-lags of
phytoplankton of Lake Kinneret. Ecological Modelling 255: 70–86.
Blair, J.M., Ostrovsky, I., Hicks, B.J., Pitkethley,R.J; Scholes, P. (2013). Growth of rainbow trout
(Oncorhynchus mykiss) in warm-temperate lakes: implications for environmental change.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Doi: 10.1139/cjfas-2012-0409.
Itskovich, V., Kaluzhnaya, O., Ostrovsky, I., Hicks, McCormack, G. (in press). The number of endemic
species of freshwater sponges (Malawispongiidae; Spongillina; Porifera) from Lake Kinneret is
overestimated. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. doi:
10.1111/jzs.12022.
Têgowski, J., Ostrovsky, I., Kumagai, M., Zamaryka, M., Ishikawa, K (2012). Acoustic signatures of
gassy sediments in two subtropical lakes – Lake Kinneret (Israel) and Lake Biwa (Japan). In
Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, (ECUA), Vol.34. Pt. 3, 26 July, 2012. Edinburgh: 1-6. ISBN: 978-1-906913-13-7, ISSN: 1467-6095.
Yacobi, Y. Z. and Ostrovsky, I. (2012). Sedimentation of algal signature pigments: role of ambient
conditions and life strategies of algae. Hydrobiologia 698:111-120.
Paul W.J., Hamilton, D.P., Ostrovsky, I., Miller, S.D., Zhang, A., Muraoka, K. (2012). Catchment land
use and trophic state impacts on phytoplankton composition: A case study from the Rotorua lake
district, New Zealand. Hydrobiologia 698: 133-146.
Zohary, T., Ostrovsky, I. (2011) Ecological impacts of excessive water level fluctuations in stratified
freshwater lakes. Inland Waters, 1: 47-59.
Yacobi, Y. Z. and Ostrovsky, I. (2011). Sedimentation of photosynthetic pigments during the bloom of
the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium phaeobacteroides in Lake Kinneret: spatial patterns.
Hydrobiologia. 660:117-124.
Têgowski, J., Ostrovsky, I., Zamaryka, M. (2011). Use of the Hilbert-Huang transform for
characterization of gassy sediments in Eckernförde Bay. Hydroacoustics, 14, 237-244.
Sobek, S. Zurbrügg, R., Ostrovsky, I. (2011). The burial efficiency of organic carbon in the sediments of
Lake Kinneret, Aquatic Sciences 73: 355-364. DOI 10.1007/s00027-011-0183-x
Ostrovsky, I. and Yacobi, Y. Z. (2010). Sedimentation flux in a large subtropical lake: spatio-temporal
variations and relation to primary productivity. Limnology and Oceanography, 55: 1918–1931
Ostrovsky, I. and Tegowski, J. (2010) Hydroacoustic analysis of spatial and temporal variability of
bottom sediment characteristics in Lake Kinneret in relation to water level fluctuation. GeoMarine Letters, 30: 261–269, doi: 10.1007/s00367-009-0180-4.
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DelSontro, T., McGinnis, D.F., Sobek, S., Ostrovsky, I., Wehrli, B. (2010). Extreme methane emissions
from a Swiss hydropower reservoir: contribution from bubbling sediments. Environmental
Science & Technology 44 :2419-2425. DOI: 10.1021/es9031369
Tegowski, J., Ostrovsky, I., Zamaryka, M. (2010). The acoustic evidence for gas bubbles in the Lake
Kinneret sediments. Hydroacoustics, 13, 261-268.
Ostrovsky, I. (2009) Hydroacoustic assessment of fish abundance in the presence of gas bubbles.
Limnology and Oceanography: 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 Journal of Marine Science 66(6): 1043 - 1047, doi:
10.1093/icesjms/fsp103.
Ostrovsky, I. (2009) Fish and methane bubbles in aquatic ecosystems: hydroacoustic separation and
quantification. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 30/6: 870-873.
Ostrovsky, I. and Yacobi, Y.Z. (2009). Temporal evolution and spatial heterogeneity of ecosystem
parameters in a subtropical lake. The 13th International Workshop on Physical Processes in
Natural Waters (PPNW), Sep 1-4 2009, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy. On CD.: 1-15.
ISBN: 978-88-903895-0-4.
Rimmer, A., Ostrovsky, I., Yacobi, Y. Z. (2008). Light availability for Chlorobium phaeobacteroides
development in Lake Kinneret. Journal of Plankton Research 30: 765–776;
doi:10.1093/plankt/fbn040.
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., Rimmer, A. Agnon, Y., and Koren, N. (2006). Sediment resuspension in the hypolimnion
of Lake Kinneret (Israel): The impact of water level fluctuation. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol.
29/3: 1625-1629.
Ostrovsky, I. (2005). Assessing mortality changes from size-frequency curves. J. Fish Biol. 66:16241632.
Ostrovsky, I. (2003). Methane bubbles in Lake Kinneret: Quantification, temporal, and spatial
heterogeneity. Limnol. Oceanogr. 48:1030-1036.
Koren, N. and Ostrovsky, I. (2002). Sedimentation in a stratified subtropical lake. Verh. Internat. Verein.
Limnol., 27: 2636-2639.
Sukenik, A., I. Ostrovsky, and A. Nishri (2002) Advanced approach for synoptic monitoring of a lake
ecosystem:- Lake Kinneret as a model. In Water Resources Quality: Preserving the Quality of Our
Water Resources (H. Rubin, P. Nachtnebel, J. Fuerst, U. Shamir, eds.). Springer-Verlag
Publishers: 165-176. ISBN: 3540431489.
Eckert, W., K. D. Hambright, Y. Z. Yacobi, I. Ostrovsky, and A. Sukenik (2002).
Internal wave
induced changes in the chemical stratification in relation to the thermal structure in Lake Kinneret.
Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 28: 962-966.
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Yacobi, Y. Z., Ostrovsky, I. and Talbot, H.M. (2001). Occurrence of high concentrations of a unique
degradation product of chlorophyll-a in particles residing below the thermocline throughout a
period of oxygen depletion in Lake Kinneret. Journal of Limnology, 60(2): 201-207, 2001.
Ostrovsky, I. and Walline, P. (2001). Multiannual changes in the pelagic fish Acanthobrama
terraesanctae in Lake Kinneret (Israel) in relation to food sources. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol.
27: 2090-2094.
Yacobi, Y. Z. and Ostrovsky, I. (2000). Lake Kinneret sediments: spatial distribution of chloropigments
during holomixes. Arhiv fur Hydrobiologie. 55: 457-469.
Salinger, Y., Denisuk, M., Sukenik, A, Ostrovsky, I. and Schlichter, M. (2000). Monitoring of water
quality in Lake Kinneret with the aid of GPS. Hi-Tech, 69: 102-104. (In Hebrew).
Ostrovsky, I. (2000). The upper-most layer of bottom sediments: sampling and artifacts. Arhiv fur
Hydrobiologie. 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.
Walline, P. D., Tyler, J. A., Brandt, S. B., Ostrovsky, I., and Jech, J. M. (2000). Lavnun abundance: how
changes may affect consumption of Lake Kinneret zooplankton. Arhiv fur Hydrobiologie, 55:
493-511.
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: 10011010.
Gophen, M., Walline, P., Ostrovsky, I., Azoulay, B., and Easton, J. (1999). Water quality and fishery
management in Lake Kinneret, Israel. In Theoretical Reservoir Ecology and its Applications (J. G.
Tundisi and M. Straskraba, eds.), The Brazilian Academy of Sciences and Backhuys Publishers:
493-503.
Ostrovsky, I. and Walline, P. (1999). 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 Journal of Marine Science 54: 809-818.
Ostrovsky, I., Wynne, D., Bergstein-Ben Dan, T., Nishri, A., Li, H., Yacobi, Y. Z., Koren, N., and
Parparova, R. (1997). Spatial distributions of biogeochemical parameters in surface sediments at
the beginning of the stratified period in a subtropical lake. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 99: 497505.
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. Freshwater Biology 33:357-371.
Kalikhman, Y., Ostrovsky, I., Walline, P., Gophen, M. and Yacobi, Y. Z. (1995). Distribution fields for
aquatic ecosystem components: method of identification of correlation zones. Freshwater Biology
34; 317-328.
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.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1989). Zoobenthos in relation to organic matter in Lake Sevan, USSR. Beiheft der
Ergebnisse der Limnolgie, 33: 479-482.
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Publications in Russian
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1990). Accumulation levels of organic mercury forms in phytoperiphyton and
zoobenthos in rivers of the Altai Mountain Region. In Mercury in Rivers and Reservoirs.
Novosibirsk: 48-49.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1990). Ecology of Gammarus lacustris Sars in Lake Sev Lich. In Species, geographic
regions, biology, ecology, and productivity of aquatic invertebrates, Publisher: Navuka i
Technika, Minsk: 37-42.
Ostrovsky, I. S. and Kurdjumova, V. A. (1990). Mercury in aquatic organisms in rivers of the Katun
basin. In Mercury in Rivers and Reservoirs. Novosibirsk: 45-46.
Oganesian, R. O., Ostrovsky, I. S., and Ovsepian, A. K. (1990). The influence of different copper, zinc
and cobalt ion concentrations on Gammarus lacustris mortality. Biol. J. Armenia, 43: 407-412.
Babitsky, V. A. and Ostrovsky, I. S. (1989). Peculiarities of body mass definition and oxygen
consumption rate by freshwater polyps Pelmatohydra oligactis Schulze (1917). Biol. Sci., 7(307):
57-61.
Vasiljev, O. F. and Ostrovsky, I. S. (1989). Telezkoje Lake: Some research problems. In The First
Vereshchagin Baikal International Conference, October 2 7, 1989, 18-19.
Oganesian, R. O. and Ostrovsky, I. S. (1988). Water pollution definition of Lake Sevan basin rivers
based on composition of bottom animals. In Ecological Toxicology and Conservation. The
Republic Symp., Riga: 131-132.
Oganesian, R. O. and Ostrovsky, I. S. (1988). Water pollution definition of Lake Sevan basin rivers
based on composition of bottom animals. In Ecological Toxicology and Conservation. The
Republic Symp., Riga: 131-132.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1986). Dependence of generation time on body mass in Infusoria. J. General Biol., 47:
695-700.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1986). Constraints of zoobenthos productivity changes of Lake Sevan. In The 5 th All
Union Congress of Hydrobiologists, Toljatty, 15 19 Sept., 1986, Part 2. Kujbishev: 275-276.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1986). Chironomus markosjani growth and production in Lake Sevan. In Formation of
Chironomidae Evolution, Species and Systematization (eds. N. N. Kolesnikov and A. G.
Istomina). Novosibirsk: 126-130.
Ostrovsky, I. S. and Ovsepian, A. K. (1986). The influence of different copper concentrations on
Gammarus lacustris mortality. Experimental Aquatic Toxicology, 11: 85 92.
Ostrovsky, I. S. and Tifenbakh, O. I. (1986). Quantitative dynamics, specific production and bacterial
generation time. In Structure and Functioning of Water Microorganisms Communities (eds. M. I.
Novozilova and V. V. Dryukker). Novosibirsk: 132-136
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1985). Zoobenthos and its dynamics of Lake Sevan. In Limnological and Ichthyological
Researches on the Lake Sevan (ed. R. O. Oganesian). Yerevan: 132-187
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1985). Production ecology of zoobenthos in Lake Sevan. In Problems and Investigations
of Large Lakes in the USSR. (eds. O. A. Alekin, N. P. Smirnova, and I. N. Sorokin.). Leningrad:
225 229.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1984). Ecological and production characteristic of Procladius sp. (Chironomidae,
Diptera) in Lake Sevan. In Experimental and Field Studies of Aquatic Organisms of Lake Sevan
(ed. R. O. Oganesian). Yerevan: 120 127
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Ostrovsky, I. S. (1984). Analysis of production in cohorts of organisms with parabolic types of growth. J.
General Biol., 45(2): 246-254.
Akopian, S. A. and Ostrovsky, I. S. (1984). Ecology and production of mayflies in Lake Sevan. In
Limnology of Mountain Reservoirs. Proc. Symp. Limnol. Mountain Reservoirs (ed. R. O.
Oganesian), Sevan-Yerevan: 3-4.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1984). Zoobenthos biomass dependence upon the primary productivity of Lake Sevan.
In Limnology of Mountain Reservoirs. Proc. Symp. Limnol. Mountain Reservoirs (ed. R. O.
Oganesian), Sevan-Yerevan: 216-218.
Ostrovsky, I. S. and Tifenbakh, O. I. (1984). Quantitative dynamics and specific production of bacteria.
In Limnology of Mountain Reservoirs. Proc. Symp. Limnol. Mountain Reservoirs (ed. R. O.
Oganesian), Sevan-Yerevan: 221-222
Ostrovsky, I. S. and Manukian, G. M. (1984). The change of bottom animal community productivity in
the process of trophic status level decrease in Lake Sevan. In Limnology of Mountain Reservoirs.
Proc. Symp. Limnol. Mountain Reservoirs (ed. R. O. Oganesian), Sevan-Yerevan: 219-220.
Juzhakova, G. G. and Ostrovsky I. S., et al. (1984) The state of Sevan whitefish Coregonus lavaretus
population due to reduction in their food sources (1975 1983). In Limnology of Mountain
Reservoirs. Proc. Symp. Limnol. Mountain Reservoirs, Sevan-Yerevan: 223-224.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1983). Growth and production of Chironomus plumosus L. (Chironomidae, Diptera)
larvae in Lake Sevan. Ecologia. 1: 62-69.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1983). Weight-length relation of larvae Chironomus plumosus (Chironomidae, Diptera)
in different regions and effects of sample fixations. In Production Processes in Ecosystem of Lake
Sevan (ed. R. O. Oganesian). Yerevan: 164-171.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1983). Zoobenthos changes connected with water level decreases and eutrophication of
Lake Sevan. In Anthropogenic Eutrophication of Natural Waters. 3rd All Union Symp. on
Anthropogenic Eutrophication of Natural Waters, Moscow, Sept., 1983. Chernigolovka: 183-184.
Burukovsky, R. N. and Ostrovsky, I. S. (1983). Biology of the shrimp Plesionika heterocarpus
(Costa,1871) (Decapoda, Natantida, Pandalidae) from the Coast of Morocco. Biol. Sci., 1: 44-49.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1982). A simple mathematical model of production process in a population of animals
growing by parabolic law. Biol. J. Armenia, 35: 746 756.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1981). The duration of development and changes of Chironomus plumosus L.
(Chironomidae, Diptera) morphometric characteristics during growth process. Biol. J. Armenia,
34: 515-516.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1981). Ecological and productive characteristics of population Valvata piscinals
(Ectobranchia, Valvatidae) in Lake Sevan. Zool. J. (Moscow), 60: 825-834.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1980). Changes in depth distribution of benthic animals due to lowering of Lake Sevan
water level. Biol. J. Armenia, 33: 330-333.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1980). Chironomus plumosus (Chironomidae, Diptera) larvae growth under
experimental conditions. Biol. J. Armenia, 33: 1301-1309.
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1980). Zoobenthos distribution in Lake Sevan during spring time. Biol. J. Armenia, 33:
307-311.
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