OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Mediterranean in check: Biological invasions in a changing sea	23
Mass mortality of the fan mussel, Pinna nobilis in Turkey (eastern Mediterranean)	17
Keratose‐dominated sponge grounds from temperate mesophotic ecosystems (NW Mediterranean Sea)	14
pH variability off Goa (eastern Arabian Sea) and the response of sea urchin to ocean acidification scenarios	13
Colonisers of the dark: biostalactite‐associated metazoans from “lu Lampiùne” submarine cave (Apulia, Mediterranean Sea)	13
Response of the bacterioplankton composition to inorganic nutrient loading and phytoplankton in southern Korean coastal waters: A mesocosm study	13
Impact of vehicles on benthic macrofauna on a subtropical sand beach	12
Consistent genetic divergence observed among pelagic Sargassum morphotypes in the western North Atlantic	12
Stable isotopic signatures of sediment carbon and nitrogen sources and its relation to benthic meiofaunal distribution in the Arctic Kongsfjord	10
A potential new threat on the coral reefs of Puerto Rico: The recent emergence of Ramicrusta spp.	10
Submarine groundwater springs are characterized by distinct fish communities	9
Reef microhabitats mediate fish feeding intensity and agonistic interactions at Príncipe Island Biosphere Reserve, Tropical Eastern Atlantic	9
Depth distribution of canopy‐forming algae of the order Fucales is related to their photosynthetic features	9
First evidence of an intensive bloom of the coccolithophore Syracosphaerahalldalii in a highly variable estuarine environment (Krka River, Adriatic sea)	8
Responses of humpback whales to a changing climate in the Southern Hemisphere: Priorities for research efforts	8
Diversity and geographical distribution of resting stages of eukaryotic algae in the surface sediments from the southern Chinese coastline based on metabarcoding partial 18S rDNA sequences	8
Depth and grazing intensity are the main drivers of subtidal hardground benthic community structure on tropical south Atlantic reefs	8
Spatial and seasonal variations of dinoflagellates and ciliates in the Kongsfjorden, Svalbard	7
Population genetics of cold‐water coral associated Pleustidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) reveals cryptic diversity and recent expansion off Iceland	7
Evidence of increased mussel abundance related to the Pacific marine heatwave and sea star wasting	7
Environmental factors driving the distribution of the tropical coral Pavona varians: Predictions under a climate change scenario	7
Cryptofauna associated with rhodoliths: Diversity is species‐specific and influenced by habitat	6
Effects of Ficopomatus enigmaticus ecosystem‐engineered habitat structure on population parameters of the amphipod Melita palmata: A NIS‐NIS interaction study	6
Patterns of spatial and temporal distribution of the macrobenthic fauna on an estuarine macrotidal sandy beach on the Amazon coast (Brazil)	6
Phylogenetic diversity of culturable marine bacteria from sediments underlying the oxygen minimum zone of the Arabian Sea and their role in nitrate reduction	6

Are populations of economically important bonefish and queen conch 'open' or 'closed' in the northern caribbean basin?	6
Population genetics reveals global and regional history of the apex predator Galeocerdocuvier (carcharhiniformes) with comments on mitigating shark attacks in north‐eastern brazil	6
Coastal mesozooplankton respond to decadal environmental changes via community restructuring	5
Food source or refuge: What is behind amphipod choices for seaweeds?	5
Long‐term variability of the coastal ocean stratification in the Gulf of Naples: Two decades of monitoring the marine ecosystem at the LTER–MC site, between land and open Mediter	5
Assembly rules vary seasonally in stable phytoplankton associations of the Gulf of Naples (Mediterranean Sea)	5
Asymmetric effects of changes in the habitat‐forming algae Sargassum on different associated mobile faunas along São Paulo coast, Brazil	5
Composition and diversity of prokaryotic communities sampled from sponges and soft corals in Maldivian waters	5
Multi‐species fish foraging associations during tool use by the graphic tuskfish Choerodon graphicus (De Vis 1885) (Labridae)	4
Small‐scale macrobenthic community structure along asymmetrical sand waves in an underwater seascape	4
Trait‐based diversity of deep‐sea benthic megafauna communities near the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site	4
Core microbiome of corals Pocillopora damicornis and Pocillopora verrucosa in the northeastern tropical Pacific	4
Stationary underwater cameras assess more efficiently clear‐water mangrove fish assemblages: A comparison of non‐extractive techniques	4
Maturity of a giant: age and size reaction norm for sexual maturity for Atlantic leatherback turtles	4
Vertical and temporal distribution of chytrids infecting diatoms in the Gulf of Naples (Italy, Mediterranean Sea)	4
Strategic foraging: Understanding hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) prey item energy values and distribution within a marine protected area	4
Population structure, maturity and relative growth of the porcelain crab Pachycheles laevidactylus Ortmann, 1892 (Decapoda, Porcellanidae) in a temperate zone	4
Influence of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami on the genetic structure of wild sea urchin (Mesocentrotus nudus) populations in Sanriku, Japan	4
Concurrent effect of crown‐of‐thorns starfish outbreak and thermal anomaly of 2020 on coral reef communities of the Spratly Islands (South China Sea)	4
Matrilineal evidence for genetic structure and Late Pleistocene demographic expansion of the Ornate goby Istigobiusornatus (Teleostei: Gobiidae) in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea	3
Phytoplankton ecology in different coastal habitats along the northern Bay of Bengal	3
Dynamic spawning patterns in the California market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) inferred through paralarval observation in the Southern California Bight, 2012–2019	3
After the nursery: Regional and broad‐scale movements of sharks tagged in the Caribbean	3
Microplastics in the menu of Mediterranean zooplankton: Insights from the feeding response of the calanoid copepod Centropages typicus	3
Holoplankton and meroplankton communities in surf zone waters of a temperate SW Atlantic sandy beach: Seasonal patterns	3
Contrasting effects of the El Niño 2015–16 event on coral reefs from the central pacific coast of Mexico	3
Photo‐identification confirms polyandry in loggerhead sea turtles	3
Spatio‐temporal variability of benthic macroalgae in a coral reef system highly influenced by fluvial discharge: Veracruz, Gulf of Mexico	3
Effects of the ridge‐and‐runnel system on macrofaunal spatial distribution on a macrotidal sandy beach in the Brazilian Amazon coast	3
Characterization and biogeographic affinity of megazoobenthos in the Central Mediterranean Sea	3
Comparison of the spatio‐temporal distribution of the roughneck shrimp Rimapenaeus constrictus (Stimpson, 1874) (Crustacea, Penaeoidea) from monthly samples collected 20 years apart: Effects of	3
Advances in the study of the trophic niche of batoids with distribution in Mexican waters	3
Comparison of the fish functional arrangement of two contrasting localities in the Gulf of Mexico	2
Surface behaviors correlate with prey abundance and vessels in an endangered killer whale (Orcinus orca) population	2
Population biology of the endangered land crab Johngarthia lagostoma (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) in the Trindade Island, Brazil: Identifying crucial areas for future conservation strategies	2
From metabarcoding time series to plankton food webs: The hidden role of trophic hierarchy in providing ecological resilience	2
Tool use by the orange wrasse Pseudolabrus luculentus and doubleheader Coris bulbifrons	2
Exploration of the inter‐annual variability and multi‐scale environmental drivers of European spiny lobster, Palinurus elephas (Decapoda: Palinuridae) settlement in the NW Mediterranean	2
First insights on the horizontal movements of short‐finned pilot whales in the Gulf of Mexico	2
Does the same refuge signify the same reproductive tactics? Comparing the mating systems of two symbiont alpheid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda)	2
Habitat associations between Streptococcus bovis/equinus complex and Streptococcus phocae, the causative agents of strep syndrome in sea otters, and the marine environment	2
First detailed insights into the life‐history traits of the alien shrimp Athanas nitescens (Decapoda: Alpheidae) in the western Atlantic	2
Molecular ecology of a shallow water shrimp, Acetes sibogae sibogae Hansen 1919: Evidence for strongly limited gene flow across the western Pacific	2
Small‐scale spatiotemporal variability and distance–decay relationships in intertidal micro‐ and meiobenthic assemblages	2
Metabarcoding reveals marked seasonality and a distinctive winter assemblage of dinoflagellates at a coastal LTER site in the Gulf of Naples	2
Interplay among anthropogenic impact, climate change, and internal dynamics in driving nutrient and phytoplankton biomass in the Gulf of Naples	2
Mucus from the Pulmonate Sea Slug Onchidium typhae: Biochemical composition and ecological implications for the intertidal community	2
Epibiosis in sedimentary coastal environments: Effects of an introduced barnacle on a native mussel	2
Inter‐sexual comparison of body biomass, proximate biochemical composition, and fatty acid profiles of new juvenile squat lobsters (Pleuroncodes monodon) in the Southeast Pacific Ocean	2
Surface cyclopoid copepod assemblages in relation to environmental conditions near undisturbed coral reefs of Minicoy, southeastern Arabian Sea, a part of the Indian Ocean	2

Short‐term movement dynamics of the world’s largest sea cucumbers (genus Thelenota)	2
Geographical ecology of the symbiotic crabs Libinia ferreirae and Libinia spinosa: Distributional patterns in south and south‐eastern coast of Brazil	2
Photosynthetic performances of two deep‐water canopy‐forming fucoid algae across a depth gradient: Interspecific variability and short‐term adaptation to the light environment	2
Using stable isotope analysis to determine the effects of ocean acidification and warming on trophic interactions in a maerl bed community	2
A CHEMTAX‐derived phytoplankton community structure during 12‐year observations in the Gulf of Naples (LTER‐MC)	2
Feeding intensity and molecular prey identification of the mantis shrimp, Oratosquilla oratoria (De Haan, 1844), in the Tianjin coastal zone of Bohai Bay	2
Stable allopolyploidy in a hybrid zone within the Matsukawaura Lagoon (Japan) between Neopyropia yezoensis and Neopyropia tenera (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) and its relevance to speciation m	2
Size spectra, biomass, and trophic groups of free‐living marine nematodes along a water‐depth gradient in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico	2
Higher population genetic diversity within the algal symbiont Durusdinium in Pocillopora verrucosa from Mexican Pacific reefs correlates with higher resistance to bleaching after the El	2
Genealogical concordance, comparative species delimitation, and the specific status of the Caspian pipefish Syngnathus caspius (Teleostei: Syngnathidae)	2
Productivity changes in the Mediterranean Sea drive foraging movements of yelkouan shearwater Puffinus yelkouan from the core of its global breeding range	1
Spatial distribution and density of the invasive sea urchin Diadema setosum in Turkey (eastern Mediterranean)	1
Is integrated taxonomy useful to study diversity and ecology? An example from crustacean zooplankton at the Long‐Term ecological research site MareChiara (LTER‐MC)	1
Reassessment of the olive ridley sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea nesting population at Nancite Beach, Costa Rica	1
The planktonic food web in the Gulf of Naples based on the analysis of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios	1
Inbreeding vs outbreeding depression in a marine species with low dispersal potential	1
Cryptic biodiversity inhabiting coral reef sponges	1
Multiannual trends of toxic and potentially toxic microalgae (Ostreopsis cf. ovata, Prorocentrum lima, and Coolia monotis) in Sfax coasts (North of Gabes Gulf, Tunisia)	1
Growth rate is temperature‐dependent, but the proportion of resource allocation between the growth and gonads is not, in early adult stage of the lancelet branchiostomajaponicum	1
Comparison of epiphyte algal assemblages on the leaves of marine seagrasses Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile, Cymodocea nodosa (Ucria) Asch, and the lessepsian Halophila stipulacea	1
Octospy: What Octopus insularis do in their dens	1
Evaluation of caridean ecological distribution in the Ubatuba region, southeastern Brazilian coast using unsupervised machine learning technique	1
Effect of habitat topography on the structure and diversity of benthic communities across five marinas from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean	1
Bottom‐up and top‐down control of seagrass overgrazing by the sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla	1
Living under Ulva canopy: The case of the scavenger snail Buccinastrum deforme in a eutrophic macrotidal bay in Patagonia (Argentina)	1
The phylum Chloroflexi and their SAR202 clade dominate the microbiome of two marine sponges living in extreme environmental conditions	1
Thinking beyond the data: When the sea went dark	1
Disruptive coloration and behavior facilitate camouflage of blue‐spotted cornetfish against complex coral reef bottoms	1
COI gene‐based mitochondrial DNA variation of horseshoe crab (Tachypleus gigas) reveals high genetic variation and occurrence of distinct populations in the Bay of Bengal, India, and its	1
Coral reef productivity and diversity—Contributions from enhanced photosynthesis via demand for carbohydrate from the host	1
How does emersion time affect embryos of coastal marine invertebrate species? Biochemical responses of three porcelain crabs from the Southeastern Pacific	1
Estimation of feeding strategies of spotted seals (Phoca largha) migrating to three regions in Hokkaido, Japan	1
Abundance of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the north‐western Mediterranean Sea, using photo‐identification and microsatellite genotyping	1
Environmental influences on the cyanobacterial mat formation in the mangrove ecosystems along the southwest coast of India	1
Constitutive and activated toxigenic activity ofHalomicronema metazoicum(Cyanoprokaryota, Cyanophyta)	1
Size‐based differences in isotopic niche width (δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N) of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) nesting on Príncipe Island, Gulf of Guinea	1
Evaluation of phenolic content of wrack debris on estuarine beaches: The effect on upper beach macrofauna	1
Twenty‐year trends of Centropages typicus (Copepoda, Calanoida) reproduction, feeding, population abundance and structure in the Gulf of Naples (Western Mediterranean Sea)	1
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Effects of light intensity on Opsin4, Opsin5, and Pax6 expressions of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius	1
Biology and evolution of the MolluscaW. F.PonderD. R.LindberghBoca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019–2020. Two volumes: xxiii‐900 + xx‐870 pp. ISBN: 9780815361695 (volume 1), 9780	1
Do intertidal Zostera noltei meadows represent a favourable habitat for amphipods? The case of the Kneiss Islands (Gulf of Gabès: Central Mediterranean Sea)	1
Are CO₂‐rich seafloor pockmarks a suitable environment for ostracod assemblages? The example of the Zannone Giant Pockmark (central‐eastern Tyrrhenian)	1
Bioerosion and its relationship with skeletal density of Platygyra daedalea and Porites harrisoni in Larak Island, Persian Gulf	1
Microbiomes associated with cultures of Gambierdiscus australes and Ostreopsis cf. ovata, two epibenthic dinoflagellates from the NE Atlantic Ocean (Las Palmas, Gran Canaria)	1
Burrow use and sexual dimorphism as indicators of the mating system in the symbiotic pea crab Austinixa patagoniensis (Rathbun 1918) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae)	1
The ichthyofaunistic colonization and complex biogeographic history of the southern portion of the Southwest Atlantic Ocean	1
Biodiversity and conservation of “solar‐powered” sea slugs from the Western Atlantic under climate change scenarios	1
Assessing the role of competitive processes in mediating the range expansions of tropical vagrant fish	1
Complex interactions with nutrients and sediment alter the effects of predation on a reef‐building coral	1
Ontogenetic shifts in feeding habits of orangemouth weakfish (Cynoscion xanthulus): From estuarine benthic feeder to marine nektivore top predator	1
Mitochondrial DNA variation of Metapenaeus monoceros (Decapoda, Penaeidae) reveals high genetic variation within Bangladesh with distinct lineages in the Indian Ocean	1
Metals in eggs and hatchlings of Dermochelys coriacea (testudines) in Espírito Santo, Brazil and their relation to hatching and emergence success	1
Predicting diversity in benthic macro‐scale communities associated with mussel matrices in three Pacific ecoregions	1
Feeding guilds among batoids in the northwest coast of the Baja California Sur, Mexico	1
La Niña‐related coral death triggers biodiversity loss of associated communities in the Galápagos	1