OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Plankton Research is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Global patterns in copepod thermal tolerance	23
Transcriptomics and metatranscriptomics in zooplankton: wave of the future?	20
Annual phytoplankton succession results from niche-environment interaction	20
Influence of global environmental Change on plankton	18
Observation of asexual reproduction with symbiont transmission in planktonic foraminifera	18
Effect of eutrophication on the functional diversity of zooplankton in shallow ponds in Northeast Brazil	17
Predicting the effects of climate change on freshwater cyanobacterial blooms requires consideration of the complete cyanobacterial life cycle	16
Spatial patterns in planktonic cnidarian distribution in the western boundary current system of the tropical South Atlantic Ocean	14
Seasonal variability of the fatty acid composition in Aurelia aurita (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa): implications for gelativore food web studies	13
Ecophysiological traits of mixotrophic Strombidium spp	13
Environmental factors affecting chytrid (Chytridiomycota) infection rates on Planktothrix agardhii	13
Single-cell metabarcoding reveals biotic interactions of the Arctic calcifier Neogloboquadrina pachyderma with the eukaryotic pelagic community	13
Key drivers structuring rotifer communities in ponds: insights into an agricultural landscape	12
Phytoplankton community composition and biomass in the oligotrophic Gulf of Mexico	12
Seasonal variability in non-consumptive mortality of Arctic zooplankton	12
Rapid succession drives spring community dynamics of small protists at Helgoland Roads, North Sea	12
Phytoplankton photosynthesis: an unexplored source of biogenic methane emission from oxic environments	12
Distinct oxygen environments shape picoeukaryote assemblages thriving oxygen minimum zone waters off central Chile	12
Hydrozoans, scyphozoans, larvaceans and ctenophores observed in situ at hadal depths	11
Plankton community response to fronts: winners and losers	11
Analysis of niche characteristics of phytoplankton functional groups in fluvial ecosystems	11
Zooplankton abundance trends and patterns in Shelikof Strait, western Gulf of Alaska, USA, 1990–2017	11
Sinking carbon, nitrogen, and pigment flux within and beneath the euphotic zone in the oligotrophic, open-ocean Gulf of Mexico	11
The ongoing need for rates: can physiology and omics come together to co-design the measurements needed to understand complex ocean biogeochemistry?	10
Species composition of three size fractions of zooplankton used in routine monitoring of the Barents Sea ecosystem	10

Cephalopod paralarval species richness, abundance and size structure during the 2014–2017 anomalous warm period in the southern Gulf of California	10
Interactions between a planktivorous fish and planktonic microcrustaceans mediated by the biomass of aquatic macrophytes	10
Allometry and the calculation of zooplankton metabolism in the subarctic Northeast Pacific Ocean	10
Mesozooplankton biomass, grazing and trophic structure in the bluefin tuna spawning area of the oceanic Gulf of Mexico	9
Temperature-dependent egg production and egg hatching rates of small egg-carrying and broadcast-spawning copepods Oithona similis, Microsetella norvegica and Microcalanus pusillus	9
Similarities between the biochemical composition of jellyfish body and mucus	9
Rare but persistent asexual reproduction explains the success of planktonic foraminifera in polar oceans	9
Microbial food web dynamics in the oceanic Gulf of Mexico	9
Exploring evolution of maximum growth rates in plankton	9
Response of size and trophic structure of zooplankton community to marine environmental conditions in the northern South China Sea in winter	9
Taxonomic and functional differences between winter and summer crustacean zooplankton communities in lakes across a trophic gradient	8
Allometry of carbon and nitrogen content and growth rate in a diverse range of coccolithophores	8
Does resource availability influence the vital rates of the tropical copepod Apocyclops royi (Lindberg, 1940) under changing salinities?	8
Active prey selection in developing larvae of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in spawning grounds of the Gulf of Mexico	8
Use of optical imaging datasets to assess biogeochemical contributions of the mesozooplankton	8
The colorful world of cryptophyte phycobiliproteins	8
Long-term changes of ichthyoplankton communities in an Iberian estuary are driven by varying hydrodynamic conditions	8
Seasonal dynamics and life histories of three sympatric species of Pseudocalanus in two Svalbard fjords	7
Spatial shifts in size structure, phylogenetic diversity, community composition and abundance of small eukaryotic plankton in a coastal upwelling area of the northern South China Sea	7
Constraining the sources of nitrogen fueling export production in the Gulf of Mexico using nitrogen isotope budgets	7
Taxon-specific phytoplankton growth, nutrient utilization and light limitation in the oligotrophic Gulf of Mexico	7
Reduction in thermal stress of marine copepods after physiological acclimation	7
Growth performance of Alexandrium catenella from the Chilean fjords under different environmental drivers: plasticity as a response to a highly variable environment	7
Ontogenetic changes in the elemental composition and stoichiometry of marine copepods with different life history strategies	7
Predation assessment of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in a French Mediterranean lagoon	6
Zooplankton growth and survival differentially respond to interactive warming and acidification effects	6
Isotopic evidence for size-based dietary shifts in the jellyfish Cyanea nozakii in the northern East China Sea	6
Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities	6
Egg production and hatching patterns of Acartia erythraea (Copepoda, Calanoida), with a note on its two egg types, in a eutrophic bay in Korea	6
Influence of restoration age on egg bank richness and composition: an ex situ experiment	6
Biotic vs. abiotic forcing on plankton assemblages varies with season and size class in a large temperate estuary	6
Krill diel vertical migration in Southern Patagonia	6
Predator-induced allometric changes in the tail spine length ofDaphnia: a distinct resource allocation strategy	6
Protoplasmic streaming of chloroplasts enables rapid photoacclimation in large diatoms	6
Decrease in diatom dominance at lower Si:N ratios alters plankton food webs	5
Spatiotemporal genetic structure in theDaphnia pulexcomplex from Sierra Nevada lakes (Spain): reproductive mode and first record of North AmericanD.cf.pulexin European alpine lake	5
Increasing temperature and prey availability affect the growth and swimming kinematics of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) larvae	5
Relationships of pelagic ciliates with the microbial food web components at a coastal station in the oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean Sea: temporal and vertical variability	5
Spatial variation and transport of abundant copepod taxa in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence in autumn	5
Contribution of the deep chlorophyll maximum to primary production, phytoplankton assemblages and diversity in a small stratified lake	5
Autumn blooms and seasonality of the dinoflagellate Unruhdinium penardii in the Han River (Korea) as tracked by morphological and molecular techniques	5
Competition between vacuolated and mixotrophic unicellular plankton	5
Trade-offs between risks of predation and starvation in larvae make the shelf break an optimal spawning location for Atlantic bluefin tuna	5
Zooplankton size spectra and production assessed by two different nets in the subarctic Northeast Pacific	5
Nitrogen sources (NO3− vs N2 fixation) inferred from bulk δ15N values of zooplankton from the deep water region of the Gulf of Mexico	5
The rôles of plankton and neuston microbial organic matter in climate regulation	4
Phytoplankton and particle size spectra indicate intense mixotrophic dinoflagellates grazing from summer to winter	4
Phytoplankton nutritional quality is altered by shifting Si:N ratios and selective grazing	4
Species-specific content of thiamin (vitamin B1) in phytoplankton and the transfer to copepods	4
Phytoplankton phagotrophy across nutrients and light gradients using different measurement techniques	4

Near-reef zooplankton differs across depths in a subtropical seascape	4
Vertical changes in abundance, biomass and community structure of pelagic polychaetes down to 1000 m depths at Station K2 in the western subarctic Pacific Ocean covering the four seasons and day–night	4
Scyphozoan jellyfish (Cnidaria, Medusozoa) from Amazon coast: distribution, temporal variation and length–weight relationship	4
The effect of phytoplankton properties on the ingestion of marine snow by Calanus pacificus	4
Large differences in bacterial community composition of nearby shallow lakes surrounded by Nothofagus pumilio forest in Patagonia (Argentina)	4
Bluefin Larvae in Oligotrophic Ocean Foodwebs, investigations of nutrients to zooplankton: overview of the BLOOFINZ-Gulf of Mexico program	4
River discharge-related nutrient effects on North Sea coastal and offshore phytoplankton communities	4
A 3-year study of the seasonal variability of abundance, biomass and reproductive traits of Oncaea venusta (Copepoda, Oncaeidae) in a subtropical coastal area	4
Potential of arsenic bioremediation by a cyanobacterium isolated from the Salado River in the Atacama Desert	4
Vertical distribution, population structure and developmental characteristics of the less studied but globally distributed mesopelagic copepod Scaphocalanus magnus in the western Arctic Ocean	4
Food quality impacts on reproductive traits, development and fatty acid composition of the freshwater calanoid copepod Eudiaptomus sp.	4
Zooplankton assemblage and body size responses to severe lake eutrophication from agricultural activities near mink farms in Nova Scotia, Canada	4
In situ automated imaging, using the Plankton Imager, captures temporal variations in mesozooplankton using the Celtic Sea as a case study	4
Plankton food webs in the oligotrophic Gulf of Mexico spawning grounds of Atlantic bluefin tuna	4
Planktonic stages of the ecologically important sea urchin, Diadema africanum: larval performance under near future ocean conditions	4
Container volume may affect growth rates of ciliates and clearance rates of their microcrustacean predators in microcosm experiments	4
Drivers of microplankton community assemblage following tropical cyclones	4
Size matters: diatom establishment and extirpation timing in the Laurentian Great Lakes has been influenced by cell size	4
Annual cycle of mesozooplankton at the coastal waters of Cyprus (Eastern Levantine basin)	3
Global observing for phytoplankton? A perspective	3
Winter zooplankton dynamics in the English Channel and southern North Sea: trends and drivers from 1991 to 2013	3
Prey selectivity and feeding rates of the scyphozoan Catostylus tagi (Haeckel, 1869)	3
The effects of dissolved organic matter from a native and an invasive plant species on juvenile Daphnia survival and growth	3
Interannual variability of diet composition and prey preference of larval redfish (Sebastes spp.) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence	3
Determinants of phytoplankton size structure in warm, shallow lakes	3
Application of species-specific primers to estimate the in situ diet of Bythotrephes [Cladocera, Onychopoda] in its native European range via molecular gut content analysis	3
Contribution of zooplankton nutrient recycling and effects on phytoplankton size structure in a hypereutrophic reservoir	3
Plankton digital twins—a new research tool	3
Notable predominant morphology of the smallest most abundant protozoa of the open ocean revealed by electron microscopy	3
Phytoplankton RNA/DNA and 18S rRNA/rDNA ratios in a coastal marine ecosystem	3
Does increased springtime solar radiation also increase primary production?	3
Phytoplankton cell geometric shapes along Mediterranean seasonal environmental variability in natural and artificial lakes	3
Phytoplankton carbon and nitrogen biomass estimates are robust to volume measurement method and growth environment	3
Multi-decadal (1972–2019) Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora) abundance patterns in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA	3
Which physicochemical variables should zooplankton ecologists measure when they conduct field studies?	3
Fine-scale vertical distribution and diel migrations ofPyrosoma atlanticumin the northern California Current	2
Chain or sphere? Perspectives on colony shapes and sizes in microalgae	2
Taxonomic and functional coherence of active and dormant zooplankton communities between perennial and temporary aquatic environments	2
Functional feeding response of Nordic and Arctic krill on natural phytoplankton and zooplankton	2
Phytoplankton growth regulation by dissolved P and mortality regulation by endogenous cell death over 35 years of P control in a Mountain Lake	2
Two versions of short-term phytoplankton ecophysiology and taxonomic assemblages in the Arctic Ocean’s North Water (Canada, Greenland)	2
Elevated temperature results in higher compositional variability of pioneer phytoplankton communities in a mesocosm system	2
Body condition of larval roundherring,Gilchristella aestuaria(family Clupeidae), in relation to harmful algal blooms in a warm-temperate estuary	2
Response of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) cell quotas to oxidative stress in three phytoplankton species	2
Phenology of alpine zooplankton populations and the importance of lake ice-out	2
Mucilage protects the planktonic desmid Staurodesmus sp. against parasite attack by a chytrid fungus	2
Non-lethal effects of the predator Meganyctiphanes norvegica and influence of seasonal photoperiod and food availability on the diel feeding behaviour of the copepod Centropages typicus	2
Changes in phytoplankton community structure over a century in relation to environmental factors	2
Seasonal variation of vegetative stages and cysts of planktonic ciliates in a temperate coastal bay	2
Hiding in plain sight—Euplokamis dunlapae(Ctenophora) in Norwegian waters	2
A synthesis of the biogeographical distribution of Rotifera in Africa	2
Exploration of marine phytoplankton: from their historical appreciation to the omics era	2
The private life ofCystodinium:in situobservation of its attachments and population dynamics	2
Sleep walking copepods? Calanus diapausing in hypoxic waters adjust their vertical position during winter	2
A matter of time and proportion: the availability of phosphorus-rich phytoplankton influences growth and behavior of copepod nauplii	2
Changes in astaxanthin and fatty acid concentrations during the developmental process in the calanoidArctodiaptomus walterianusin an alpine lake at low latitudes	2
Small is beautiful: the important role of small copepods in carbon budgets of the southern Benguela upwelling system	2
Opportunistic vs selective feeding strategies of zooplankton under changing environmental conditions	2
Feeding in mixoplankton enhances phototrophy increasing bloom-induced pH changes with ocean acidification	2
Influence of food quality on larval growth of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Gulf of Mexico	2
Cladoceran body size distributions along temperature and trophic gradients in the conterminous USA	2
Temperature, phosphorus and species composition will all influence phytoplankton production and content of polyunsaturated fatty acids	2
Feeding and growth efficiency in a pelagic chaetognath, Zonosagitta nagae reared in the laboratory	2
The persistent presence of Chrysaora fulgida (Scyphozoa; Discomedusae) in the northern Benguela ecosystem is not reflected by constant recruitment	2
Zooplankton community size structure across lakes within a semi-arid landscape: the effect of temperature and salinity	2
Seasonal hydromedusan feeding patterns in an Eastern Boundary Current show consistent predation on primary consumers	2
Large-scale culturing of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, its growth in, and tolerance of, variable environmental conditions	2
Contemporary adaptive evolution in fragmenting river landscapes: evidence from the native waterflea Ceriodaphnia cornuta	2
Patterns in Rhizosolenia- and Guinardia-associated Richelia abundances in the tropical marginal seas of the western North Pacific	2
On the different role of alarm substances and fish kairomones in diapause induction in a freshwater planktonic crustacean	2
Growth and ingestion rates of the freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii	2
Impact of native and invasive cyclopoid predators in relation to the diversity of the zooplankton community	2
Three-dimensional distribution of larval fish habitats at the entrance of the Gulf of California in the tropical-subtropical convergence region off Mexico (April 2012)	2
Pioneers of plankton research: Victor Hensen (1835–1924)	2
Trophic niche partitioning of three larval Sciaenidae species in the north-western Gulf of Mexico	2
A day in the life of winter plankton: under-ice community dynamics during 24 h in a eutrophic lake	2