OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aquatic Botany is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Seed bank and germination ecology of sub-tropical Vallisneria americana	58
Restoring charophytes is still a challenge: A call for developing successful methods	55
Macrophyte species uniqueness is driven by habitat integrity, sediment structure, and spatial components in streams around the Amazon National Park	49
Is the protection of habitat directive Eleocharis carniolica in its northern limits really needed? – A life strategy based investigation	29
Rapid loss of temperate kelp forests revealed by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photography and underwater observations	27
High methane emissions as trade-off for phosphorus removal in surface flow treatment wetlands	27
Seaweed-associated epiphytic bacteria: Diversity, ecological and economic implications	24
Variation of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope composition in leaves and roots of Littorella uniflora (L.) Asch. in relation to water pH and nutrient availability	20
Submerged macrophyte root oxygen release reduces sediment oxygen demand: A positive feedback loop in shallow lakes	18
Seasonal shifts in morphology, physiology and population traits in the seagrass Halodule wrightii (Cymodoceaceae) in a subtropical arid area	18
Chromosomal evolution in seagrasses: Is the chromosome number decreasing?	17
Drainage Influences Coastal Salt Marsh Productivity and Soil Biogeochemistry	16
Editorial Board	14
Arrival of the non-indigenous brown alga Mutimo cylindricus to the Atlantic Ocean	14
No endemic Isoëtes (Isoëtaceae) species in the North Asian Pacific evidenced by genetic and morphological analysis	14
Combined effects of marine heatwaves and reduced light on the physiology and growth of the surfgrass Phyllospadix torreyi from Baja California, Mexico	13
Halophila baillonii's hidden distribution range: Rediscovery and conservation of a rare seagrass in the Tropical Atlantic	13
Monthly and seasonal variations of biomass partitioning and macronutrients in the invasive grass Vossia cuspidata (Roxb.) Griff	12
Fecundity and egg viability of Sargassum oligocystum Montagne, 1845 in Iligan Bay, Northern Mindanao, Philippines	12
Metabolic responses of Halodule wrightii to hyposalinity	12
A baseline assessment of the epiphytic community associated with pelagic sargassum in the Tropical Atlantic	12
Description of a white spot disease of field cultivated kelp (Saccharina japonica) and evaluation of its influences on the growth and phytochemical contents	12
Editorial Board	12
Seed germination ecology of common bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris L.)	12
Evolutionary insight into the invasive allopolyploidy Spartina anglica inferred from multiple chloroplast DNA and nuclear Waxy gene	11

Editorial Board	10
Carbon allocation dynamics of Spartina alterniflora in Georgia saltmarsh, USA	10
Improvement of genetic health and diversity of Zostera marina (eelgrass) in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey ten years after Hurricane Sandy: Support for the “storm stimulus” hypothesis	9
Monitoring drift and associated biodiversity of nearshore rafts of holopelagic Sargassum spp. in the Mexican Caribbean	9
Seasonal plant development and meadow structure of Irish and southern Spanish seagrass populations	9
Preliminary explorations of environmental tolerances and growth rates of holopelagic Sargassum morphotypes	9
Local scale high frequency monitoring of seaweed strandings along an intertidal shore of the English Channel (Luc-sur-Mer, Normandy France) – Effect of biotic and abiotic factors	9
Editorial Board	9
Transplanting experiment and transcriptome sequencing reveal the potential ecological adaptation to plateau environments in the allopolyploid Isoetes sinensis	9
The search for hybrids between Myriophyllum sibiricum and M. spicatum (Haloragaceae) in North Eurasia allowed to clarify their morphological differences and distribution	9
Evaluating a novel biodegradable lattice structure for subtropical seagrass restoration	9
Investigating causes and implications of morphological variation in a native pondweed (Stuckenia pectinata) of San Francisco Estuary	9
Genetic legacy of ancient lands: Callitriche (Plantaginaceae) indicates Beringia and Paratethys Sea as diversification hotspots for aquatic vascular plants in Eurasia	8
Drepanocladus lycopodioides rediscovered in the Czech Republic: Abandoned quarries as refugia for endangered fen species	8
Taxonomic revisions in Zosteraceae (Zostera, Nanozostera, Heterozostera and Phyllospadix)	8
First characterization of seagrasses at Sámara Bay, Pacific coast of Costa Rica	8
Effects of nutrients and light in aquatic habitat on the growth of Hydrocotyle vulgaris when expanded from terrestrial to aquatic habitat	8
Effect of substrate size and depth on macroalgal communities in unstable marine rocky bottoms	8
The importance of plants for methane emission at the ecosystem scale	8
Strange but common in isolated environments: new records of Marathrum (Podostemaceae) in rivers of Colombia	8
Use of Eichhornia crassipes and Pistia stratiotes for environmental services: Decontamination of aquatic environments with atrazine residues	8
Modeling germination responses of three Mediterranean stem-succulent halophytes to salinity and temperature	8
Reproductive phenology of coralline algae Porolithon antillarum and Lithophyllum sp. under seasonal upwelling conditions, Colombian Caribbean	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	7
Zn ions and Fe plaque jointly alleviate Cu toxicity in Sargassum patens C. Agardh	7
The identification of abiotic stress by hydrogen peroxide concentration in submerged macrophyte tissues	7
Crossing the Atlantic: The tropical macroalga Caulerpa ashmeadii Harvey 1858 as a recent settler in Porto Santo Island (Madeira archipelago, North-eastern Atlantic)	7
Germination of the invasive water primrose Ludwigia grandiflora in Belgium and potential implications for management	7
The combined effect of seawater salinity and duration on the survival and growth of eelgrass Zostera marina	7
Sargassum species as hydrozoans substrates: Key patterns of association or just availability?	7
Total mercury and methylmercury concentrations in water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) from a South Carolina coastal plain river	7
Effects of light and temperature on volatile mediated seaweed-bacteria interactions	7
Reciprocal competitive effects of congeneric invaders, Trapa natans L. and Trapa bispinosa Roxb. var. iinumai Nakano, in established freshwater plant cultures	7
Fruit development in the seagrass Thalassia testudinum: Possible relationships between structure, physiology and defense	7
Genetic diversity and population structure of Bruguiera cylindrica along coastal areas in Thailand	7
A living fossil charophyte Lychnothamnus barbatus newly found in southern Siberia (North Asia)	7
Macrophyte removal affects nutrient uptake and metabolism in lowland streams	7
Long-term analysis of aquatic macrophyte diversity and structure in the Paraguay river ecological corridor, Brazilian Pantanal wetland	7
Multiple introduction events expand the range of the invasive brown alga Rugulopteryx okamurae to northern Spain	6
Herbivore damage and riparian shade constrain biomass distribution in American water willow (Justicia americana)	6
Low irradiance disrupts the internal O2 dynamics of seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) leading to shoot meristem H2S intrusion	6
Biological control alters competition between Pontederia crassipes Mart. (Pontederiaceae) and Salvinia minima Baker (Salviniales: Salviniaceae) in a eutrophic waterbody	6
Reproductive and Recruitment Potential of Halophila hawaiiana	6
Invasive Nitellopsis obtusa (starry stonewort) has distinct late-season phenology compared to native and other invasive macrophytes in Minnesota, USA	6
Sediment carbon storage in subtidal beds of the invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea along an extreme water depth gradient, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands	6
DNA barcoding and phylogenetic relationships of ecologically and commercially important seaweed species from the Azores (NE Atlantic)	6
Marinomyxa marina presence in a Halophila stipulacea meadow near a fish farm in south Evoikos Gulf (Greece)	6
Genetic and epigenetic variation of Trapa bispinosa under slope gradient: A case study in a subtropical freshwater lake	6
Effects of desiccation and rehydration on carbon fixation and DOC release in Sargassum thunbergii	6

The effect of abrupt increase in water temperature on the survival and growth of eelgrass Zostera marina	6
The complete plastome of Blidingia marginata and comparative analysis with the relative species in Ulvales	6
Carbon limitation and aluminium toxicity prevents dominance of Crassula helmsii on weakly buffered soils	6
Herbivory in southeastern Brazilian mangroves: An analysis of 11 years of litterfall monitoring	6
Morphological changes and biochemical reaction of Ulva rigida in response to the toxic effect of bisphenol A under experimental conditions	6
Effects of the ultraviolet filter oxybenzone on physiological responses in a red macroalga, Gracilaria vermiculophylla	6