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Geochemical evidence for the link between sulfate reduction, sulfide oxidation and phosphate accumulation

2015

Alsenz, H., Illner, P., Ashckenazi-Polivoda, S., Meilijson, Abramovich, S., Feinstein, S., Almogi-Labin, A., Berner., Z., and Püttmann, W. Geochemical evidence for the link between sulfate reduction, sulfide oxidation and phosphate accumulation in a late Cretaceous upwelling system. Geochemical Transactions.

Chronostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous

2014

Aaron Meilijson, Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda, Libby Ron-Yankovich, Peter Illner, Heiko Alsenz, Robert P. Speijer, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Shimon Feinstein, Zsolt Berner, Wilhelm Püttmann and Sigal Abramovich. Chronostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous high productivity sequence of the southern Tethys, Israel.

Cretaceous Research

Foraminiferal response to removal of fish cages

2014

Shai Oron, Dror Angel, Beverly Goodman –Tchernov, Gily Merkado, Moshe Kiflawi, and Sigal Abramovich. Benthic foraminiferal response to the removal of aquaculture fish cages in the Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat, Red Sea.

Marine Micropaleontology

Paleoecology of the K-Pg mass extinction survivor

2014

Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda, Carmi Rak, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Zsolt Berner, Ofer Ovadia and Sigal Abramovich. Paleoecology of Guembelitria (Cushman), the K-Pg mass extinction survivor: Isotopic evidences from pristine foraminifera from Brazos river Texas (Maastrichtian).

Paleobiology

Molecular evidence for Lessepsian invasion of soritids

2013

Gily Merkado, Maria Holzmann, Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil, Jan Pawlowski, Uri Abdu, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Anna Bakhrat, Sigal Abramovich . Molecular evidence for Lessepsian invasion of soritids (larger symbiont bearing benthic foraminifera).

PLoS ONE

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Publication list

Abramovich, S., Almogi-Labin, A. and Benjamini, Ch., 1998. Decline of the Maastrichtian pelagic ecosystem based on planktic foraminifera assemblage changes: Implication for the terminal Cretaceous faunal crisis. Geology, 26: 63-66.

 

Abramovich, S. and Keller, G., 2002. High stress upper Maastrichtian Paleoenvironment: Inference from planktic foraminifera in Tunisia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 178(3-4), 145-164.

 

Abramovich, S., Keller, G., Adatte, T., Stinnesbeck, W., Hottinger, L., Stüben, D., Berner, Z., Ramanivosoa, B. and Randriamanantenasoa, A., 2002. Age paleoenvironment of the Maastrichtian-Paleocene of the Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar: a multidisciplinary approach. Marine Micropaleontology 47(1-2).

 

Abramovich, S., Keller, G., Stüben, D. and Berner, Z., 2003. Characterization of late Campanian and Maastrichtian planktic foraminiferal depth habitats and vital activities based on stable isotopes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 202, 1-29.

 

Abramovich, S. and Keller, G., 2003. Planktic foraminiferal response to the latest Maastrichtian abrupt warm event: A case study from midlatitude Atlantic Site 525A. Marine Micropaleontology 48(3-4), 225-249.

 

Stüben, D., Kramar, U., Berner Z., Leosson M. A., Meudt, M., Keller, G., Abramovich, S., Adatte, T., Hambach, U. and Stinnesbeck. W., 2003. Late Maastrichtian Paleoclimatic and Paleoceanographic changes inferred from Ca/Sr and stable isotopes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 199, 107-127.

 

Adatte, T., Keller, G., Stüben, D., Harting, M., Kramar, U., Stinnesbeck, W., Abramovich, S., and Benjamini, Ch., (2005). Late Maastrichtian and K/T paleoenvironment of the eastern Tethys (Israel): mineralogy, trace element and platinum group elements, biostratigraphy, and faunal turnovers. Bull. Soc. géol. France 176, 35-53. Georgescu, D.

 

Abramovich, S., (2008a). A new serial Cretaceous planktonic foraminifer (Family Heterohelicidae Cushman 1927) from the upper Maastrichtian of the equatorial Central Pacific. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 27, 117-123

 

Georgescu, D. Abramovich, S., (2008b) Cretaceous (Upper Santonian-Maastrichtian) serial planktonic foraminifera (Family Heterohelicidae Cushman, 1927) with peripheral test wall flexure. Revista Española de Micropaleontología, 40 (1-2). 97-114.

 

Keller, G. Abramovich, S. Z. Berner. Z. and T. Adatte, T., (2009). Biotic effects of the Chicxulub impact, K–T catastrophe and sea level change in Texas Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 271, 52-68

 

Keller, G. Abramovich, S., (2009) Lilliput Effect in Late Maastrichtian Foraminifera: Response to Environmental Stress. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 271, 52-68. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.09.007

 

Georgescu, D, and Abramovich, S. (2009). A new Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) serial planktic foraminifer (Family Heterohelicidae) with early planispiral coil and revision of Spiroplecta Ehrenberg, 1844. Geobios, 42, 687-698. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2009.06.001

 

Abramovich, S., Yovel, S., Benjamini, Ch., and Almogi-Labin, A. (2010). Global climate change and planktic foraminiferal response in the Maastrichtian, Paleoceanography, 25, PA2201 doi:10.1029/2009PA001843.

 

Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda, , Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Aya Schneider-Mor, Shimon Feinstein, Wilhelm Puttman and Zsolt Berner. (2011). Paleoenvironments of the latest Cretaceous oil shale sequence, Southern Tethys, Israel, as an integral part of the prevailing upwelling system, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 305 (1-4), 93-108.

 

Ruthie Nina Arieli, Sigal Abramovich, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, & Barak Herut (2011). The effect of thermal pollution on benthic foraminiferal assemblages in the Mediterranean shoreface adjacent to Hadera power plant (Israel), Marine Pollution Bulletin, 62(5), 883-1152.

 

Sigal Abramovich, Gerta Keller, Zsolt Berner, Matan Cymbalista, and Carmi Rak (2011). Maastrichtian Planktic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment of Brazos River, Falls County, Texas. In K-T Mass Extinction and the Chicxulub Impact in Mexico and Texas, SEPM Special Publication, 100, 123-157.

 

Gerta Keller, Sigal Abramovich, Thierry Adatte, and Zsolt Berner. (2011). Biostratigraphy, Age of Chicxulub Impact and Depositional Environment of the Brazos River K-T Sequences. In K-T Mass Extinction and the Chicxulub Impact in Mexico and Texas, SEPM Special Publication, 100, 81-123.

 

Aya Schneider-Mor, Heiko Alsenz, Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda, Peter Illner, Sigal Abramovich, Shimon Feinstein, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Zsolt Berner, Wilhelm Püttmann (2012) Paleoceanographic reconstruction of the late cretaceous oil shale of the Negev, Israel: integration of geochemical, and stable isotope records of the organic matter. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 319, 46-57.

 

Elisabeth Alve, Emmanuelle Geslin, Frans Jorissen, Sergei Korsun, Joachim, Schönfeld, Silvia Spezzaferri and the FOBIMO group. 2012. The FOBIMO (Foraminiferal BIo-Monitoring) initiative - towards a standardised protocol for benthic foraminiferal monitoring studies. Marine Micropaleontology, 94-95, 1-13.

 

Heiko Alsenz, Julia Regnery, Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda., Aaron Meilijson, Libby Ron-Yankovich, Sigal Abramovich, Peter Illner, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Shimon Feinstein, Zsolt Berner, Wilhelm Püttmann (2013). SST variations in the Late Cretaceous upwelling system of the tropical southern Tethys, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

 

Gily Merkado, Maria Holzmann, Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil, Jan Pawlowski, Uri Abdu, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Orit Hyams-Kaphzan, Anna Bakhrat, Sigal Abramovich (2013). Molecular evidence for Lessepsian invasion of soritids (larger symbiont bearing benthic foraminifera). PLoS ONE

 

Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda, Carmi Rak, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Zsolt Berner, Ofer Ovadia and Sigal Abramovich (2014). Paleoecology of Guembelitria (Cushman), the K-Pg mass extinction survivor: Isotopic evidences from pristine foraminifera from Brazos river Texas (Maastrichtian). Paleobiology

 

Shai Oron, Dror Angel, Beverly Goodman –Tchernov, Gily Merkado, Moshe Kiflawi, and Sigal Abramovich (2014). Benthic foraminiferal response to the removal of aquaculture fish cages in the Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat, Red Sea. Marine Micropaleontology.

 

Aaron Meilijson, Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda, Libby Ron-Yankovich, Peter Illner, Heiko Alsenz, Robert P. Speijer, Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Shimon Feinstein, Zsolt Berner, Wilhelm Püttmann and Sigal Abramovich. In press, Chronostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous high productivity sequence of the southern Tethys, Israel. Cretaceous Research.

 

Alsenz, H., Illner, P., Ashckenazi-Polivoda, S., Meilijson, Abramovich, S., Feinstein, S., Almogi-Labin, A., Berner., Z., and Püttmann, W., 2015. Geochemical evidence for the link between sulfate reduction, sulfide oxidation and phosphate accumulation in a late Cretaceous upwelling system. Geochemical Transactions, 16, 2. 

 

Schmidt, C., Morard, R, Almogi-Labin, A. Weinman A.E., Titelboim, D., Abramovich, S, Kucera (in press 2015) Recent invasion of the symbiont-bearing foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean facilitated by the ongoing warming trend. Plos One.

 

Meilijson, A., Ashckenazi-Polivoda, S., Illner, P., Alsenz, H., Speijer, R., Almogi-Labin, A., Feinstein, S., Berner Z, Püttmann, and Abramovich, S., (in press 2015) Evidence for specific adaptations of fossil benthic foraminifera to anoxic-dysoxic environments, Paleobiology.

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