I am a Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Yossi Loya's lab at Tel-Aviv University. My research interests are coral reproduction and dispersal, taxonomy and biodiversity; and how these are changing across environmental gradients. My dissertation research focuses on patterns of coral reproduction and larval ecology along a large depth gradient (0 – 60 m) in the Gulf of Eilat and Aqaba, Red Sea.

  Please note that only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

	Can mesophotic reefs replenish shallow reefs? Reduced coral reproductive performance casts a doubt | article Shlesinger T, Grinblat M, Rapuano H, Amit T, Loya Y (2018) Ecology 99:421-437
	Mesophotic coral-reef environments depress the reproduction of the coral Paramontastraea peresi in the Red Sea | article Feldman B, Shlesinger T, Loya Y (2018) Coral Reefs 37:201–214
	Octocoral Sexual Reproduction: Temporal Disparity Between Mesophotic and Shallow-Reef Populations | article Liberman R, Shlesinger T, Loya Y, Benayahu Y (2018) Front Mar Sci
	Sexual Reproduction of Scleractinian Corals in Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems vs. Shallow Reefs | chapter Shlesinger T, Loya Y (2019) in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (Springer) by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
	Light, Temperature, Photosynthesis, Heterotrophy, and the Lower Depth Limits of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems | chapter Kahng SE, Akkaynak D, Shlesinger T, Hochberg EJ, Wiedenmann J, Tamir R, Tchernov D (2019) in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019) by Yossi L, Puglise KA, Bridge T
	Depth-dependent parental effects create invisible barriers to coral dispersal | article Shlesinger T, Loya Y (2021) Communications Biology
	Soft coral reproductive phenology along a depth gradient: Can "going deeper" provide a viable refuge? | article Liberman R, Shlesinger T, Loya Y, Benayahu Y (2022) Ecology 103:e3760

  SCUBA (open-circuit or unspecified)
  Rebreather
  Snorkeling
  Aquarium-based