Banc-Prandi G., Baharier N., Benaltabet T., Torfstein A., Antler G. and Fine M. (2022) Elevated temperatures reduce the resilience of the Red Sea branching coral styllophora pistillata to copper pollution. Aquatic Toxicology 244, 106096. pdf, link
Benaltabet T., Gunter-Hoch E. and Torfstein A. (2021) Heavy metal, rare earth element and Pb isotope dynamics in mussels during a depuration experiment in the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 8, 669329. link.
Chaabane et al. (2023) The FORCIS database: A global census of planktonic Foraminifera from ocean waters. Scientific data 10, 345. link
Chernihovsky N., Torfstein A. and Almogi-Labin A. (2023) Daily timescale dynamics of planktonic foraminifera shell-size distributions. Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1126398. link
Chernihovsky N., Almogi-Labin A., Kienast S.S. and Torfstein A. (2020) The daily resolved temperature dependence and structure of planktonic foraminifera blooms. Scientific Reports 10(1), 1-12. link
Chernihovsky N., Torfstein A. and Almogi-Labin A. (2018) Seasonal flux patterns of planktonic foraminifera in a deep, oligotrophic, marginal sea: sediment trap time series from the Gulf of Aqaba, north Red Sea. Deep-Sea Research Part I 140, 78-94. pdf
Hoober L., Titelboim D., Abramovich S., Herut B., Teutsch N., Benaltabet T. and Torfstein A. (2022) Establishing baseline assessment levels for monitoring coastal heavy metals using foraminiferal shells: A case study from the Southeastern Mediterranean. Water 14, 1352. pdf, link
Keuter S., Koplovitz G., Torfstein A. and Frada M. (2023) Two-year seasonality (2017, 2018), export and long-term changes in coccolithophore communities in the subtropical ecosystem of the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Deep-Sea Research Part I 191, 103919. pdf, link
Levy N., Torfstein A., Schiebel R., Chernihovsky N., Jochum K.P., Weis U., Stoll B. and Haug G.H. (2026) Monthly element/Ca trends and inter chamber variability in two planktic Foraminifera species: Globigerinoides ruber albus and Turborotalita clarkei from a hypersaline oligotrophic sea. Biogeosciences 23, 1065–1088. link, pdf
Levy N., Torfstein A., Schiebel R., Chernihovsky N., Jochum K.P., Weis U., Stoll B. and Haug G.H. (2023) Temperature calibration of high Mg-calcite planktic Foraminifera shells from the hypersaline Gulf of Aqaba. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 24, e2022GC010742. pdf, link
Sosnitsky T., Krekova V., Elisha B., Sadekov A., Torfstein A., Abramovich S. and Ashckenazi-Polivoda S. (2025) A cosmopolitan calcifying benthic foraminifera in agglutinated disguise as a geochemical recorder of coastal environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 122, e2413054122. pdf, link
Titelboim D., Sadekov A., Blumenfeld M., Almogi-Labin A., Herut B., Halicz L., Benaltabet T., Torfstein A., Kuceara M. and Abramovich S. (2021) Monitoring of heavy metals in seawater using single chamber foraminiferal sclerochronology. Ecological Indicators 120, 106931. pdf, link
Tzafriri-Milo R., Benaltabet T., Torfstein A. and Shenkar N. (2019) The potential use of invasive ascidians for biomonitoring heavy metal pollution. Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 1-17. link
Yehoshafat O., Ashckenazi-Polivoda S., Torfstein A. and Abramovich S. (2026) Benthic foraminifera as biomonitors of seasonal and spatial heavy metal patterns in the Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat. Marine Pollution Bulletin 226, 119351. link, pdf