Journal of Plankton Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Plankton Research is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Comparing planktonic heliozoan abundance in deep and shallow basins of Lake Biwa: exploring optimal growth temperature, food resources and habitat use63
Correction to: Phytoplankton stoichiometry along the salinity gradient under limited nutrient and light supply26
Phytoplankton thermal response curves in natural communities of different origins24
Long-term dynamics, population structure and connectivity of the helmet jellyfish Periphylla periphylla in a Norwegian fjord and adjacent waters23
Ichthyoplankton species assemblages during the 2015–2016 El Niño in the southwest Gulf of California22
A mass occurrence of pteropods (Limacina spp.) drove a pronounced peak in zooplankton biomass in Atlantic water in the Barents Sea in 199422
Comparison of WP-2 and MOCNESS plankton samplers for measuring zooplankton biomass in the Barents Sea ecosystem21
Influence of food quality on larval growth of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Gulf of Mexico17
Testing theoretical frameworks of zooplankton longitudinal distribution in a large reservoir17
Shifts in survival and reproduction after chronic warming enhance the potential of a marine copepod to persist under extreme heat events16
Pioneers of plankton research: Alister Hardy (1896–1985)16
Changes in phytoplankton community structure over a century in relation to environmental factors16
Distribution, abundance and grazing impact of Salpa fusiformis, with response to environmental conditions and their effects on other zooplankton species in Korean waters15
Comparison of the ecology of pelagic copepods as basibionts and suctorian ciliates as epibionts in the subarctic Pacific14
Plankton digital twins—a new research tool14
Composition patterns of surface mesozooplankton in the zonal fronts of Drake Passage13
Seasonal variation in the population structure and production of the copepod Calanus sinicus in the Yellow Sea13
Testing mechanisms driving the increased susceptibility of Daphnia to disease when exposed to Chaoborus cu13
Know your limits; miniCOI metabarcoding fails with key marine zooplankton taxa12
Plankton abundance and resource exploitation by the endemic sprat Nannothrissa stewarti (Poll & Roberts, 1976) in a large blackwater lake of the midd12
Ecological role of a cosmopolitan testate rhizopod, Paulinella ovalis, in the microbial food web of a eutrophic estuary11
The role of oceanographic conditions and colony size in shaping the spatial structure ofPyrosoma atlanticumin the NW Mediterranean Sea11
Multiple environmental stressors mediate cyanobacteria recruitment in microcosms simulating spring conditions from two Midwest US hypereutrophic reservoirs11
Occurrence of larval fishes sampled by drifting light traps in the lower reaches of a South African estuary10
Pioneers of plankton research: Salvatore Lo Bianco (1860–1910)10
Climate change effects on plankton recruitment from coastal sediments10
Degradation of dead cladoceran zooplankton and their contribution to organic carbon cycling in stratified lakes: field observation and model prediction10
Between universality and specificity: predator kairomones in aquatic predator–prey relationships9
Swarming of holoplanktonic gastropod (Creseis acicula Rang, 1828) in Andaman Island during southwest monsoon, possible reasons and its global swarming records9
Chytrids alleviate the harmful effect of heat and cyanobacteria diet on Daphnia via PUFA-upgrading8
Uncovering hidden structures: previously undescribed pseudopodia and ectoplasmic structures in planktonic foraminifera8
Hydrostatic pressure impedes the degradation of sinking copepod carcasses and fecal pellets8
Mesodinium–Dinophysis encounters: temporal and spatial constraints on Dinophysis blooms8
Short-term variability in plankton abundance on the inner shelf off Ubatuba, Brazil8
Formation and reversibility of inducible morphological and behavioral defenses in Daphnia magna8
Size and energy content of Calanus spp. copepods: linking copepod phenology to variability in their quality as prey7
Effects of crude oil and high salinity on eggs and early naupliar stages of the copepod Calanus hyperboreus7
Phytoplankton metabolism in a stratified nearshore ecosystem with recurrent harmful algal blooms (HABs)7
Lanternfish larvae (Teleostei: Myctophidae) feeding ecology in the continental slope and off oceanic islands in the tropical Atlantic7
Should we reconsider how to assess eutrophication?7
Combining in situ and ex situ plankton image data to reconstruct zooplankton (>1 mm) volume and mass distribution in the global ocean7
Effects of phosphorus enrichment on Daphnia–algae interactions in laboratory microcosms6
The colorful world of cryptophyte phycobiliproteins6
A Markov chain model of Daphnia motion6
Littoral phytoplankton and zooplankton communities in a tropical reservoir: Pantabangan Reservoir, the Philippines6
Correction to: Seasonal organization of tintinnid community by temperature preference and LOD size-class in a subtropical brackish embayment6
Body size and developmental response of a rotifer to the predator Asplanchna6
Post-flooding blooms of the non-indigenous freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii Lankester, 1880 in Kollam District of Kerala, India6
2024 David Cushing prize6
Under ice plankton and lipid dynamics in a subarctic lake6
Phytoplankton phagotrophy across nutrients and light gradients using different measurement techniques5
Evaluating a most probable number method for assessing the viability of Laurentian Great Lakes protists5
Assessing good environmental status through mesozooplankton biodiversity: a step forward5
Experimental analysis of development, lipid accumulation and gene expression in a high-latitude marine copepod5
Substantial unrealised global biodiversity of continental microcrustaceans5
Variability of tintinnid ciliate communities with water masses in the western Pacific Ocean5
Opportunistic vs selective feeding strategies of zooplankton under changing environmental conditions5
Abundance and distribution of the paralarval cephalopod community in the northern Gulf of Mexico5
Seasonal variation in phytoplankton community assembly in hydrologically isolated urban lakes5
Identification of phytoplankton isolates from the eastern Canadian waters using long-read sequencing5
Effects of physical forcing on short-term plankton dynamics in a narrow coral reef lagoon (Ouano, New Caledonia): a two-week high-frequency study5
Temperature, phosphorus and species composition will all influence phytoplankton production and content of polyunsaturated fatty acids5
Gut content and fatty acid analyses reveal trophic role of the ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei in the Northern California current5
Miquel Alcaraz (1945–2022)5
RNA/DNA ratios as estimate of metabolic and functional traits in diatom species from the northwestern Adriatic Sea4
Novel combination coccospheres fromHelicosphaeraspp indicate complex relationships between species4
Effects of mixotroph evolution on trophic transfer4
Appendicularians and marine snowin situvertical distribution in Argentinean Patagonia4
Bottom–up propagation of synoptic wind intensification and relaxation in the planktonic ecosystem of the South Senegalese Upwelling Sector4
Diel, seasonal and vertical changes in the abundance, biomass and community structure of pelagic polychaetes at the subtropical station S1 in the western North Pacific: comparison with the results fro4
Winter plankton dynamics in a boreal lake: community structure, vertical distribution and reproduction under ice4
Genetic variability, biomass parameters, elemental composition and energy content of the non-indigenous hydromedusa Craspedacusta sowerbii in North America4
Spatial and temporal dynamics of ichthyoplankton in a temperate estuary: identifying essential habitats for early life stages4
Pioneers of plankton research: Esteban Boltovskoy (1912–1997)4
Food quality impacts on reproductive traits, development and fatty acid composition of the freshwater calanoid copepod Eudiaptomus sp.4
Diapause in Cladocera: mechanisms of induction, termination and seasonal information accumulation4
Reproductive biology, elemental composition and diel vertical migration of the cosmopolitan warm-temperate pelagic tunicate Soestia zonaria4
Zooplankton community structure and diel migration patterns vary over hours, days, and years in the pelagic and littoral zone of a eutrophic reservoir4
Assessing coastal zooplankton in the St. Lawrence estuary: spatio-temporal patterns of taxonomic and functional biodiversity4
Rare but persistent asexual reproduction explains the success of planktonic foraminifera in polar oceans4
2026 Cushing Prize4
2023 David Cushing prize4
Introduction to the themed section “Mixotrophs and mixoplankton: conceptual integration into aquatic research”4
Seasonal dynamics of zooplankton communities in a recent lava delta on an oceanic island in the Central East Atlantic Ocean4
Concurrent observations of the euphausiid Thysanoessa raschii in an Icelandic fjord by acoustics and Video Plankton Recorder: comparisons with theoretical models of target strength4
Inter-annual variability of phytoplankton and subsurface chlorophyll in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean: evidence from austral summers 2018 and 20204
What do the geometric and stochastic properties of swimming behaviour have to teach us about zooplankton behavioural ecology?4
Dietary plasticity in small Arctic copepods as revealed with prey metabarcoding4
Pioneers of plankton research: Eugène Canu (1864–1952)4
Hypoxia reduces predation on the invasive comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi4
Pioneers of plankton research: Enrique Balech (1912–2007)3
Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities3
Spring resting egg production of the calanoid copepod, Eurytemora affinis, in a freshet-dominated estuary3
Notable predominant morphology of the smallest most abundant protozoa of the open ocean revealed by electron microscopy3
Distribution of squid paralarvae and related oceanographic features in the eastern Campeche Bank, Mexico3
Oar Feet and Opal Teeth—About Copepods and Copepodologists by Charles B. Miller3
Correction: Concurrent observations of the euphausiid Thysanoessa raschii in an Icelandic fjord by acoustics and Video Plankton Recorder: comparisons with theoretical models of target strength3
Living at depth: ecophysiological condition of Boreomysis arctica in autumn and winter in the St. Lawrence estuary and gulf3
Ocean-colour anomalies quantified by the human eye3
Nutrient limitation determines biological interactions between a mixotrophic Chrysophyte and toxin-producing Microcystis3
Kinematic characteristics of calanoid copepod appendage motion3
Impact of wind forcing on phytoplankton communities in Marian Cove, King George Island, Antarctica3
Diversity and distribution of the eukaryotic picoplankton in the oxygen minimum zone of the tropical Mexican Pacific3
Transition of neritic and oceanic tintinnid communities in the Northern Gulf of Alaska3
Computational model of a feeding copepod engaged in three modes of movement3
Global gradients in species richness of marine plankton functional groups3
Response of the mesozooplankton community in the western Gulf of Maine to changing oceanographic conditions: the 2010 regime shift3
Isolation and characterization of bacteria from the gut of a mesopelagic copepod Cephalophanes reflugens (Copepoda: Calanoida)3
Impact of temperature and diet on feeding and growth of a marine heterotrophic nanoflagellate3
Maternal contributions to individual behavior in Daphnia3
Eco-physiological response of Phaeocystis antarctica and Fragilariopsis sp. to increases in irradiance and temperature3
Bottom-up effects of variable winter weather conditions on phytoplankton dynamics in an enclosed bay: implications for ecological responses to climate change2
Ontogenetic changes in swimming performance of a freshwater calanoid copepod2
Resolving the paradox of the ambush feeding cyclopoid copepod Apocyclops royi being microphageous2
Interannual variability in the spring meroplankton community of a sub-Arctic fjord2
Postponing development: dormancy in the earliest developmental stages of a high-latitude calanoid copepod2
Contribution of zooplankton nutrient recycling and effects on phytoplankton size structure in a hypereutrophic reservoir2
Nutrient availability is the main driver of nanophytoplankton phago-mixotrophy in North American lake surface waters2
Correction to: Under ice plankton and lipid dynamics in a subarctic lake2
Phytoplankton photophysiology within zooplankton fecal pellets reveals depth-specific grazing2
A synthesis of the biogeographical distribution of Rotifera in Africa2
Half-century trends in alpha and beta diversity of phytoplankton summer communities in the Helsinki Archipelago, the Baltic Sea2
Planktonic to sessile: drivers of spatial and temporal variability across barnacle life stages and indirect effects of the Pacific Marine Heatwave2
Environmental selection and advective transport shape the distribution of two cyst-forming Acantharia clades in the Canadian Arctic2
Mysterious ciliates: seasonally recurrent and yet hard to predict2
Tannin-based coagulants and P-adsorbents have no acute effects on a widespread tropical copepod at applicable mitigation doses2
Jellyfish diversity, trends and patterns in Southwestern Mediterranean Sea: a citizen science and field monitoring alliance2
Dinoflagellate rise and diatom retreat: functional shifts in phytoplankton assemblages along the central Algerian coast2
Self-filling enclosures to experimentally assess plankton response to pulse nutrient enrichments2
Zooplankton metacommunity knowledge over 20 years: a systematic review2
Stress response mechanisms in Daphnia magna: role of HSPs and MAPKs under different environmental conditions2
Cultured versus wild zooplankton and mixoplankton in experimental ecology: what we gain, what we lose and how to bridge the gap2
Thermal niche of the dinoflagellate Karlodinium veneficum across different salinity and light levels2
Limited effects of macro-nutrient ratios on thiamin content and transfer in phytoplankton and copepods2
Effect of strobe lights on catches and length distributions of euphausiids collected by Bongo nets2
Photoacclimation in the kleptoplastidic ciliate Mesodinium rubrum and its cryptophyte prey Teleaulax amphioxeia: phenotypic variability and implications for red tide remote sensing2
Annual cycle of mesozooplankton at the coastal waters of Cyprus (Eastern Levantine basin)2
Polycystine radiolarians associate with diverse phytoplankton2
Seasonal variation of vegetative stages and cysts of planktonic ciliates in a temperate coastal bay2
The dynamics of planktonic heterotrophic nanoflagellates in response to environmental drivers during initial reservoir filling2
Community structure and distribution pattern of appendicularians in the Kuroshio–Oyashio transitional zone during summer2
Unaccounted for carbon: waste production pathways of a marine teleost fish2
Does the predatory rotiferAsplanchnainduce a behavioral response in the prey rotiferBrachionus calyciflorus?2
Temperature as a factor controlling geographical distribution of greenNoctiluca scintillansin Southeast Asia2
First report of Daphnia in Hawaiʻi: D. obtusa occurrence and genetic affinities2
Large-scale culturing of the subpolar foraminifera Globigerina bulloides reveals tolerance to a large range of environmental parameters associated to different life-strategies and an extended l2
Zooplankton seasonal vertical migration in an optimality-based plankton ecosystem model2
On the ecological duality between ciliates and dinoflagellates across marine ecosystems2
Understanding the picture: the promise and challenges of in-situ imagery data in the study of plankton ecology1
Elemental composition and stoichiometry of krill and salps1
Seasonal variability drives differences in the structure of the calanoid copepod community in two contrasting regions of the Gulf of Mexico1
Relating ciliary propulsion morphology and flow to particle acquisition in marine planktonic ciliates I: the tintinnid ciliate Amphorides quadrilineata1
Does increased springtime solar radiation also increase primary production?1
Pioneers of plankton research: Priscilla Susan Bury (1799–1872)1
Analysis of swimming trajectories in Daphnia similis as an environmental impact assessment tool1
Estimating genotypic richness and proportion of identical multi-locus genotypes in aquatic microalgal populations1
Temporal dynamics of copepod taxa and trophic groups in a long-term time series in the NW-Mediterranean Sea1
Introduction to the themed section “Microzooplankton”1
A message window attention–based approach for zooplankton microscopic image classification1
Examining the performance of three ballast water compliance monitoring devices for quantifying live organisms in both regulated size classes (≥50 μm and ≥10–<50 μm)1
Bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) larvae exploit rare food sources to break food limitations in their warm oligotrophic environment1
Absence of phylogenetic conservatism in thermal traits of phytoplankton1
Effects of acid stress on life history traits of Eodiaptomus japonicus (Copepoda: Calanoida) from Lake Biwa, Japan1
Identifying a growth and survival bottleneck: oceanic zooplankton abundance and Faroe shelf primary production jointly influence the survival of Faroe Plateau cod larvae1
Light quality induces a shift in coccosphere morphology in Scyphosphaera apsteinii1
The effect of environmental variation on stable coexistence of competitors: experimental evidence from zooplankton ( Daphnia magna and 1
Correction to: Opportunistic vs selective feeding strategies of zooplankton under changing environmental conditions1
Conditions favoring phagotrophy can lead to larger cell sizes in some freshwater mixoplankton1
Trends in phytoplankton over space and time1
Chain or sphere? Perspectives on colony shapes and sizes in microalgae1
Exploring functional traits and functional diversity of mixotrophic phytoflagellates in small browned forest lakes—mixotrophy, phagotrophy and osmotrophy1
Heterocyst-infecting chytrid parasites reduce nitrogen fixation and host growth under nitrogen-limiting conditions in the cyanobacterium Dolichospermum sp1
Feeding selectivity and niche characteristics in Southern Ocean salps1
Quantum efficiency of chloroplasts retained from food by the mixotrophic ciliate Strombidium rassoulzadegani1
Gigantism in the rotifer Asplanchna brightwellii: dietary control, reproduction, propensity for sex and ecological significance1
Seasonal organization of tintinnid community by temperature preference and LOD size-class in a subtropical brackish embayment1
Distribution patterns and driving mechanisms of ciliate communities from continental shelf to deep basin of the Northeastern South China Sea1
Temporal dynamics of ecological networks: deciphering changes in cladoceran assemblages over the past ~ 150 years in response to land-use development1
Body condition of larval roundherring,Gilchristella aestuaria(family Clupeidae), in relation to harmful algal blooms in a warm-temperate estuary1
Automatic enumeration of chains of marine diatoms using “You Only Look Once”—a machine learning approach1
Planktonic associations in the Northern Bering and Chukchi seas during the 2017–2019 warm period1
Correction to: Community structure and distribution pattern of appendicularians in the Kuroshio–Oyashio transitional zone during summer1
Zooplankton diel vertical migration and its mediated active carbon flux in the South China Sea under the influence of mesoscale eddies1
Meta-analysis of stage-specific Calanus finmarchicus vertical distribution in relation to hydrography and chlorophyll in the North Atlantic1
A database of nutritional strategies of nanoplankton genera present in North American lake surface waters1
Determination of sampling time interval for investigating ecological trends of tintinnids1
Symbiont diversity in the eukaryotic microbiomes of marine crustacean zooplankton1
Complementary roles of eDNA metabarcoding and microscopy in plankton monitoring across seven habitats1
Seasonal abundance, lipid storage, and energy density ofCalanus finmarchicusand other copepod preyfields along the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf1
On the morphology of urosome appendages and their potential function of marine planktonic copepods1
Impact of thermal fluctuations on phytoplankton: an experimental multi-trait analysis across species1
Of sequences and images - diversity and quantity of Arctic epipelagic zooplankton by an integrative approach1
Effects of maternal methylparaben exposure on the offspring population dynamics varied between amictic and mictic mothers of the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus1
Interclonal differences in incipient limiting level (ILL) in Daphnia magna1
Improving the sampling of red Noctiluca scintillans to understand its impact on coastal ecosystem dynamics1
Determination of optical markers of cyanobacterial physiology from fluorescence kinetics1
Ingestion rate estimated from food concentration and predatory role of copepod nauplii in the microbial food web of temperate embayment waters1
Contrasting dissolved organic matter biodegradation and bacterial cytometric features in oligotrophic and ultraoligotrophic Patagonian lakes1
Agglomerated loricae of the tintinnids Codonella, Codonellopsis and Dictyocysta from North Atlantic, tropical Pacific and Southern Ocean waters1
Effect of salinity on the feeding behavior of Cordylophora caspia (Pallas, 1771) (Hydrozoa)1
River discharge-related nutrient effects on North Sea coastal and offshore phytoplankton communities1
Calanus helgolandicus - more than a guest in the north?1
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