Prof. Ilia Ostrovsky
Aquatic ecologist
Research Associate, Dr. Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences
Research Areas:
- Cyanobacteria and harmful algal blooms (HABs)
- Greenhouse gas emission and quantification of gas in sediments using acoustic methods
- Sedimentation processes
- Using acoustic methods to assess biomass of aquatic organisms and quantify methane ebullition
- Coupling of physical, chemical and biological processes
- Productivity and population dynamics of plankton, fish and benthos
- Remote sensing
1983 PhD in Hydrobiology at Zoological Institute of Russian AS, St. Petersburg, Russia
1977-1988 Chief Scientist, Sevan Hydrobiological Center, Armenian AS
1988-1990 Director and Founder of Limnological Laboratory, Institute for Water and Environmental Problems of Russian AS, Barnaul, Russia
1988-1990 Professor at Altai University, Barnaul, Russia
1991-2021 Senior Scientist (Grade A+) at the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR), Israel
2006 EAWAG, Switzerland
2010-11 University of Waikato, New Zealand
2011 University of Adelaide, Australia
2011 Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute, Japan
2015 IGB, Germany
2015 University of California-Santa Barbara, USA
2016 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
2020 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, USA
Dev P.J., Sukenik A., Mishra D.R., Ostrovsky I. (2021). Cyanobacterial pigment concentrations in inland waters: Novel semi-analytical algorithms for multi- and hyperspectral remote sensing data. Science of The Total Environment 805, 150423 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150423
Chu D., Homma H., Ostrovsky I. (2021). Acoustic scattering by gas-bearing cyanobacterium Microcystis: modeling and in situ biomass assessment. Science of The Total Environment 794, 148573 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148573
Huang Y., Chen X., Liu S., Lu J., Shen Y., Li L., Peng L., Hong J., Zhang Q., Ostrovsky I. (2021). Converting of nuisance cyanobacterial biomass to feedstock for bioethanol production by regulation of intracellular carbon flow: Killing two birds with one stone. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 149, 111364 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111364
Ninio, S., Lupu, A., Eckert, W., Ostrovsky, I., Viner Mozzini, Y., Sukenik A. (2021) Metalimnetic chlorophyll maxima in Lake Kinneret – Chlorobium revisited. Freshwater Biology 66, 468-480. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13653
Homma H, Ostrovsky I. (2021). The relationship between target strength frequency response and vertical swim velocity: a new approach for fish discrimination. Aquatic Living Resources 34. https://doi.org/10.1051/alr/2021011
Ostrovsky, I., Wu, S., Li, L., Song, L. (2020) Bloom-forming toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis: Quantification and monitoring with a high-frequency echosounder, Water Research 183, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.116091
Kao, Y-C, M. Rogers, D. Bunnell, I. Cowx, S. Qian, O. Anneville, T. Beard Jr., A. Brinker, J. Britton, R. Chura-Cruz, N. Gownaris, J. Jackson, K. Kangur, J. Kolding, A. Lukin, A. Lynch, N. Mercado-Silva, R. Moncayo-Estrada, F. Njaya, I. Ostrovsky, L. Rudstam, A. Sandström, Y. Sato, H. Siguayro-Mamani, A. Thorpe, P. van Zwieten, P. Volta, Y. Wang, A. Weiperth, O. Weyl, and J. Young (2020) Effects of climate and land-use changes on fish catches across lakes at a global scale. Nature Communications 11, 2526. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14624-2
Santoso, A.B.; Hamilton, D.P.; Schipper, L.A.; Ostrovsky, I.S.; Hendy, C.H. (2020). High contribution of methane in greenhouse gas emissions from a eutrophic lake: a mass balance synthesis. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2020.1798476
Wu, X., T. Yang, S. Feng, L. Li, B. Xiao, L. Song, A. Sukenik, I. Ostrovsky (2020) Recovery of Microcystis surface scum following a mixing event: insights from a tank experiment. Science of the Total Environment , 728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138727
Huang, Y., S. Liu, Y. Shen, J. Hong, L. Peng, L. Li, P. Xu, J. Hu, X. Chen, I. Ostrovsky (2020) Nitrogen availability affects the dynamics of Microcystis blooms by regulating the downwards transport of biomass. Harmful Algae 93, 101796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2020.101796
Hozumi, A., Ostrovsky, I., Sukenik, A., and Gildor, H. (2020) Turbulence regulation of Microcystis surface scum formation and dispersion during a cyanobacteria bloom event. Inland Waters, 10, 51-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2019.1637681
Lohrberg, A, O. Schmale, I. Ostrovsky, H. Niemann, P. Held, J.S. von Deimling (2020) Discovery and quantification of a widespread methane ebullition event in a coastal inlet (Baltic Sea) using a novel sonar strategy. Scientific Reports 10, 4393, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60283-0
Uzhanskii, E., Katsnelson, B., Lunkov, A., Ostrovsky, I. (2020) Spatial and temporal variability of free gas content in shallow sediments: Lake Kinneret as a case study. Geo-Marine Letters 40 (4): 491–505. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-019-00629-4
Minshull, T.A., Marín-Moreno, H., Betlem, P., Bialas, J., Buenz, S., Burwicz, E., Cameselle, A.L., Cifci, G., Giustiniani, M., Hillman, J.I.T., Hölz, S., Hopper, J.R., Ion, G., León, R., Magalhaes, V., Makovsky, Y., Mata, M.-P., Max, M.D., Nielsen, T., Okay, S., Ostrovsky, I., O’Neill, N., Pinheiro, L.M., Plaza-Faverola, A.A., Rey, D., Roy, S., Schwalenberg, K., Senger, K., Vadakkepuliyambatta, S., Vasilev, A., Vázquez, Juan.-Tomá (2020) Hydrate occurrence in Europe: A review of available evidence, Marine and Petroleum Geology 111: 735-764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.08.014
Liu, L., Sotiri, K., Dück, Y., Hilgert, S., Ostrovsky, I., Uzhansky. E., Katsman, R., Katsnelson, B., Bookman, R., Wilkinson, J., Lorke, A. (2020) The control of sediment gas accumulation on spatial distribution of ebullition in Lake Kinneret. Geo-Marine Letters 40(4): 453–466. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-019-00612-z
Dück, Y., Liu, L., Lorke, A., Ostrovsky, I., Katsman, R., Jokiel, C. (2019) A novel freeze corer for characterization of methane bubbles and assessment of coring disturbances. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 17(5): 305-319. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10315
Uzhanskii, E., Katsnelson, B., Kaganovsky, S., Ostrovsky, I. (2019) Variability of the sound field in the presence of internal Kelvin waves in a stratified lake: The Sea of Galilee as a case study. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145, 1671. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5101129
Ostrovsky, I., Uzhanskii, E., Katsnelson, B., Kaganovsky, S. (2018) Implementation of acoustic methodology for investigation of the ecology of gas-containing toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis sp. In Proceedings of 2018 Joint Conference – Acoustics, Ustka, Poland, September 11 – 14, 2018: 236-239. https://doi.org/10.1109/acoustics.2018.8502288
Katsnelson, B., Lunkov, A., Ostrovsky, I., Uzhanskii, E. (2018) Estimation of gassy sediment parameters from measurements of angular and frequency dependencies of reflection coefficient. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 33, 005004. 10.1121/2.0000963. https://asa.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1121/2.0000963
Schmid, M., Ostrovsky, I., McGinnis, D.F. (2017) Role of gas ebullition in the methane budget of a deep subtropical lake: What can we learn from process-based modeling? Limnology and Oceanography, 62(6): 2674–2698. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10598
Katsnelson, B., Katsman, R., Lunkov, A., Ostrovsky, I. (2017) Acoustical methodology for determination of gas content in aquatic sediments, with application to Lake Kinneret, Israel, as a case study. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 15: 531-541. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10178
James, R.H., Bousquet, P., Bussmann, I., Haeckel, M., Kipfer, R., Leifer, I., Niemann, H., Ostrovsky, I., Piskozub, J., Rehder, G., Treude, T., Vielstadte, L., Greinert, J. (2016) Effects of climate change on methane emissions from seafloor sediments in the Arctic Ocean: A review. Limnology and Oceanography, 61(S1): S283-S299. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10307
Katsnelson, B., Lunkov, A., Ostrovsky, I. (2016) Interference pattern of the sound field in the presence of an internal Kelvin wave in a stratified lake. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(2): 881-889. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4941658
Marce, R., George, G., Buscarinu, P., Deidda, M., Dunalska, J., de Eyto, E., Flaim, G., Grossart, H.P., Istvanovics, V., Lenhardt, M., Morenso-Ostos, E., Obrador, B., Ostrovsky, I. , Pierson, D.C., Potuzak, J., Poikane, S., Rinke, K., Rodriguez-Mozaz, S., Staehr, P.A., Sumberova, K., Waajen, G., Weyhenmeyer, G.A., Weathers, K.C., Zion, M., Ibelings, B.W., Jenning, E. (2016) Automatic high frequency monitoring for improved lake and reservoir management. Environmental Science and Technology, 50(20): 10780-10794. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b01604
Katsnelson, B., Katsman, R., Lunkov, A., Ostrovsky, I. (2015) Low-frequency sound propagation and sediment characterization in Lake Kinneret. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 37 (part 1): 102-109. EID: 2-s2.0-84981169036
DelSontro, T., McGinnis, D.F., Wehrli, B., Ostrovsky, I. (2015). Size does matter: Importance of large bubbles and small-scale hot spots for methane transport. Environmental Science & Technology 49 (3): 1268–1276. https://doi.org/10.1021/es5054286
Ostrovsky, I., M. Goren, J. Shapiro, Z. Snovsky, A. Rynskiy (2014) Fish biology and ecology. Chap. 16. In Lake Kinneret: Ecology and Management. Aquatic Ecology Series, vol 6 (Eds T. Zohary, A. Sukenik, T. Berman, A. Nishri). Springer, Dordrecht. pp 273-292. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8944-8_16
Ostrovsky, I., Y.Z. Yacobi, N. Koren (2014) Sedimentation processes. Chap. 27. In Lake Kinneret: Ecology and Management. Aquatic Ecology Series, vol 6 (Eds T. Zohary, A. Sukenik, T. Berman, A. Nishri). Springer, Dordrecht, pp 485-497. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8944-8_27
Ostrovsky, I., T. Zohary, J. Shapiro, Z. Snovsky, D. Markel (2014) Fisheries management. Chap. 36. In Lake Kinneret: Ecology and Management. Aquatic Ecology Series, vol 6 (Eds T. Zohary, A. Sukenik, T. Berman, A. Nishri). Springer, Dordrecht. Springer, Dordrecht. pp. 635-653. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8944-8_36
Ostrovsky, I., Yacobi, Y.Z. (2014). Sedimentation in a Large Lake: Role of Physical Conditions and Phytoplankton Composition. 17th Workshop on Physical Processes in Natural Waters, Trento, Italy, 1-4 July 2014. https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.4812.3847
Berman, T., Parparov, A., Hadas, O., Sivan, O., Ostrovsky, I., Yacobi, Y.Z., Eckert, W. (2014) The fate of organic carbon. Chap. 25. In: Lake Kinneret: Ecology and Management. Aquatic Ecology Series, vol 6 (Eds T. Zohary, A. Sukenik, T. Berman, A. Nishri). Springer, Heidelberg. pp 439-472. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8944-8_25
Berman, T., Yacobi, Y.Z., Eckert, W., Ostrovsky, I. (2014). Heterotrophic and anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria. Chap. 15. In: Lake Kinneret: Ecology and Management. Aquatic Ecology Series, vol 6 (Eds T. Zohary, A. Sukenik, T. Berman, A. Nishri). Springer, Heidelberg. pp 259-271. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8944-8_15
Recknagel, F., Ostrovsky, I., Cao, H. (2014). Model ensemble for the simulation of plankton community dynamics of Lake Kinneret (Israel) induced from in situ predictor variables by evolutionary computation. Environmental Modelling and Software 61: 380-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.03.014
Recknagel, F., Ostrovsky, I., Cao, H., Chen Q. (2014). Hybrid evolutionary computation quantifies environmental thresholds for recurrent outbreaks of population density. Ecological Informatics 24: 85-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.07.010
Ostrovsky, I., A. Rimmer, Y.Z. Yacobi, A. Nishri, A. Sukenik, O. Hadas, and T. Zohary (2013). Long-term 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. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118470596.ch16
Katsman, R., Ostrovsky, I., Makovsky, Y. (2013). Methane bubble growth in fine-grained muddy aquatic sediment: insight from modeling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 377-378: 336-346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.07.011
Katsnelson, B., Lunkov A., Ostrovsky, I. (2013) Fluctuations of the sound field in the presence of internal Kelvin waves in a stratified lake. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 11/2013; 134(5):3989. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4830544
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12100
Recknagel, F., Ostrovsky, I., Cao, H., Zohary, T., Zhang, X. (2013) Ecological relationships, thresholds and time-lags determining phytoplankton community dynamics of Lake Kinneret, Israel elucidated by evolutionary computation and wavelets. Ecological Modelling 255: 70–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.02.006
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. 70: 815-823. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2012-0409
Itskovich, V., Kaluzhnaya, O., Ostrovsky, I., Hicks, McCormack, G. (2013). The number of endemic species of freshwater sponges (Malawispongiidae; Spongillina; Porifera) from Lake Kinneret is overestimated. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 51: 252–257. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12022
Yacobi, Y. Z. and Ostrovsky, I. (2012). Sedimentation of phytoplankton: role of ambient conditions and life strategies of algae. Hydrobiologia 698:111-120.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-012-1215-9
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 lakes’ district, New Zealand. Hydrobiologia 698: 133-146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-012-1147-4
Zohary, T., Ostrovsky, I. (2011) Ecological impacts of excessive water level fluctuations in stratified freshwater lakes. Inland Waters, 1: 47-59. https://doi.org/10.5268/iw-1.1.406
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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0383-8
Sobek, S. Zurbrügg, R., Ostrovsky, I. (2011). The burial efficiency of organic carbon in the sediments of Lake Kinneret, Aquatic Sciences 73: 355-364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-011-0183-x
Ostrovsky, I. and Yacobi, Y. Z. (2010). Sedimentation flux in a large subtropical lake: spatiotemporal variations and relation to primary productivity. Limnology and Oceanography, 55: 1918–1931. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2010.55.5.1918
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. Geo-Marine Letters, 30: 261–269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-009-0180-4
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. https://doi.org/10.1021/es9031369
Ostrovsky, I. (2009) Hydroacoustic assessment of fish abundance in the presence of gas bubbles. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 7: 309–318. https://doi.org/10.4319/lom.2009.7.309
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. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp103
Rimmer, A., Ostrovsky, I., Yacobi, Y. Z. (2008). Light availability for Chlorobium phaeobacteroides development in Lake Kinneret. Journal of Plankton Research 30: 765–776. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbn037
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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6646-7_6
Ostrovsky, I., McGinnis, D. F., Lapidus, L., and Eckert, W. (2008). Quantifying gas ebullition with echosounder: the role of methane transport by bubbles in a medium-sized lake. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 6: 105–118. https://doi.org/10.4319/lom.2008.6.105
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. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbn070
Ostrovsky, I. (2005). Assessing mortality changes from size-frequency curves. J. Fish Biol. 66:1624-1632. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-1112.2005.00703.x
Ostrovsky, I. (2003). Methane bubbles in Lake Kinneret: Quantification, temporal, and spatial heterogeneity. Limnology and Oceanography 48:1030-1036. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2003.48.3.1030
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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56013-2_9
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/03680770.2001.11901859
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. https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2001.1.201
Yacobi, Y. Z. and Ostrovsky, I. (2000). Lake Kinneret sediments: spatial distribution of chloropigments during holomixes. Advances in Limnology 55: 457-469. ISBN 978-3-510-47057-0 https://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9783510470570
Ostrovsky, I. (2000). The upper-most layer of bottom sediments: sampling and artifacts. Advances in Limnology 55: 243-255. ISBN 978-3-510-47057-0 https://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9783510470570
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. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2000.45.4.0972
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. Advances in Limnology 55: 493-511. ISBN 978-3-510-47057-0 https://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9783510470570
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: 1001-1010. https://doi.org/10.1139/f99-032
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.1999.tb00609.x
Ostrovsky, I. and Walline, P. (1998). Multiannual changes in the pelagic fish Acanthobrama terraesanctae in Lake Kinneret (Israel) in relation to food sources. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 27 (4): 2090-2094. https://doi.org/10.1080/03680770.1998.11901606
Kalikhman, Y. and Ostrovsky, I. (1997). Patchy distribution fields: survey design and adequacy of reconstruction. ICES Journal of Marine Science 54: 809-818. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.1996.0205
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. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 99: 497-505. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02406889
Ostrovsky, I., Yacobi, Y. Z., Walline, P., and Kalikhman, Y. (1996). Seiche-induced water mixing: its impact on lake productivity. Limnology and Oceanography 41; 323-332. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1996.41.2.0323
Ostrovsky, I. (1995). The parabolic pattern of animal growth: determination of equation parameters and their temperature dependencies. Freshwater Biology 33:357-371. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.1995.tb00398.x
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.1995.tb00891.x
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. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00005695
Ostrovsky, I. S. (1989). Zoobenthos in relation to organic matter in Lake Sevan, USSR. Beiheft der Ergebnisse der Limnolgie, 33: 479-482.
Ostrovsky. I. S. (1984) The dependence of macrobenthic biomass on primary production in Lake Sevan. In: Limnology of Mountain Waters (Ed. R. O. Oganesian), Yerevan, Armenian Academy of Sciences, pp. 216-218 https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.1551.9682
Ostrovsky. I. S. (1984) Ecology and production of mayflies in Lake Sevan. In: Limnology of Mountain Waters (Ed. R. O. Oganesian), Yerevan, Armenian Academy of Sciences, pp. 3-4. https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.2076.2569
