https://www.oceanexpert.org/expert/ChenRabi

MSc

Research

Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
Marine and Coastal Engineering

The purpose of my PhD project is to determine how rocky topography affect fine-scale variations in thermal and desiccation stresses at local to biogeographical scales, and use this data to make projections on how the species and communities in the intertidal zone will be affected by climate change. In addition, I aim to test how these stress events vary in space and time, then inspect how different species are affected by them, using field observation and lab experiments.

Since March 2017, we selected four study sites along the Israeli Mediterranean coast. Through monitoring and tracking of marked quadrates in the sites, and examine the effect of different types of desiccation events in four factors:

(1) the zone of the quadrate in the platform (fore-reef, back-reef),
(2) the direction (N/W/S)
(3) the roughness (High/Low)
(4) the season (Su/F/W/Sp)

Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin

Behavioral ecology
Marine ecology
Biodiversity
Wildlife ecology
Intertidal zone

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ResearchGate

https://www.rilovlab.com