This catalogue is a collection of uniquely identified bottlenose dolphin dorsal fin photos from the Israeli population. The following information is indicated for each dolphin: first and last sighting, area (S=South, C=central, N=North), sex if known, and other essential information.
Oceans cover 70% of the Earth while sedimentary habitats cover most of the ocean bottom (ranging from gravel to fine muds), making this the largest ecosystem on our planet in areal coverage. Surface sediment bacteria play a significant ecological and biogeochemical role in marine ecosystems due to their high abundance relative to the overlying water column, and they play a key role in the decomposition of the organic matter, nutrient…
The Eastern Mediterranean is unusually blue. This is because it is as much a desert as the Sahara desert to the south and for similar reasons. The water circulation, caused by the hot dry climate, results in the dissolved nutrients which are supplied to the surface waters both naturally and anthropogenically being washed out of the basin at the Straits of Sicily. The aim of our team in Sdot Yam is to make…
