Jonathan Belmaker

Jonathan Belmaker represents a research group based at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Earth’s biodiversity is both remarkable and fragile. His research team seeks to understand the processes generating this diversity, and how human stressors, including invasive species, warming waters, and overfishing, impact the ecological processes underpinning it. They use a multi-directional approach that brings together experimental manipulations, large scale observations and computer modeling to examine these questions. In particular, they are using acoustic telemetry to follow movement patterns and examine how fish behaviors responds to change and protection.