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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Seed bank and germination ecology of sub-tropical Vallisneria americana	63
Macrophyte species uniqueness is driven by habitat integrity, sediment structure, and spatial components in streams around the Amazon National Park	62
Is the protection of habitat directive Eleocharis carniolica in its northern limits really needed? – A life strategy based investigation	60
High methane emissions as trade-off for phosphorus removal in surface flow treatment wetlands	30
Restoring charophytes is still a challenge: A call for developing successful methods	30
Drainage Influences Coastal Salt Marsh Productivity and Soil Biogeochemistry	28
Editorial Board	22
No endemic Isoëtes (Isoëtaceae) species in the North Asian Pacific evidenced by genetic and morphological analysis	22
Submerged macrophyte root oxygen release reduces sediment oxygen demand: A positive feedback loop in shallow lakes	20
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	19
Arrival of the non-indigenous brown alga Mutimo cylindricus to the Atlantic Ocean	16
Seaweed-associated epiphytic bacteria: Diversity, ecological and economic implications	16
Zostera noltei Hornemann seagrass as the modulator of habitat within its canopy	15
Combined effects of marine heatwaves and reduced light on the physiology and growth of the surfgrass Phyllospadix torreyi from Baja California, Mexico	15
Seed germination ecology of common bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris L.)	14
Halophila baillonii's hidden distribution range: Rediscovery and conservation of a rare seagrass in the Tropical Atlantic	14
Editorial Board	13
A baseline assessment of the epiphytic community associated with pelagic sargassum in the Tropical Atlantic	13
Fecundity and egg viability of Sargassum oligocystum Montagne, 1845 in Iligan Bay, Northern Mindanao, Philippines	13
Metabolic responses of Halodule wrightii to hyposalinity	12
Carbon allocation dynamics of Spartina alterniflora in Georgia saltmarsh, USA	12
Seasonal plant development and meadow structure of Irish and southern Spanish seagrass populations	12
Editorial Board	12
Investigating causes and implications of morphological variation in a native pondweed (Stuckenia pectinata) of San Francisco Estuary	12
Evolutionary insight into the invasive allopolyploidy Spartina anglica inferred from multiple chloroplast DNA and nuclear Waxy gene	11

Preliminary explorations of environmental tolerances and growth rates of holopelagic Sargassum morphotypes	11
Evaluating a novel biodegradable lattice structure for subtropical seagrass restoration	11
Genetic legacy of ancient lands: Callitriche (Plantaginaceae) indicates Beringia and Paratethys Sea as diversification hotspots for aquatic vascular plants in Eurasia	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	10
Use of Eichhornia crassipes and Pistia stratiotes for environmental services: Decontamination of aquatic environments with atrazine residues	10
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	10
Effects of nutrients and light in aquatic habitat on the growth of Hydrocotyle vulgaris when expanded from terrestrial to aquatic habitat	10
The search for hybrids between Myriophyllum sibiricum and M. spicatum (Haloragaceae) in North Eurasia allowed to clarify their morphological differences and distribution	10
Monitoring drift and associated biodiversity of nearshore rafts of holopelagic Sargassum spp. in the Mexican Caribbean	10
Strange but common in isolated environments: new records of Marathrum (Podostemaceae) in rivers of Colombia	9
Taxonomic revisions in Zosteraceae (Zostera, Nanozostera, Heterozostera and Phyllospadix)	9
Zn ions and Fe plaque jointly alleviate Cu toxicity in Sargassum patens C. Agardh	9
The importance of plants for methane emission at the ecosystem scale	9
Modeling germination responses of three Mediterranean stem-succulent halophytes to salinity and temperature	9
Editorial Board	9
First characterization of seagrasses at Sámara Bay, Pacific coast of Costa Rica	9
Reproductive phenology of coralline algae Porolithon antillarum and Lithophyllum sp. under seasonal upwelling conditions, Colombian Caribbean	9
Editorial Board	9
Genetic diversity and population structure of Bruguiera cylindrica along coastal areas in Thailand	9
The combined effect of seawater salinity and duration on the survival and growth of eelgrass Zostera marina	8
Fruit development in the seagrass Thalassia testudinum: Possible relationships between structure, physiology and defense	8
Long-term analysis of aquatic macrophyte diversity and structure in the Paraguay river ecological corridor, Brazilian Pantanal wetland	8
A living fossil charophyte Lychnothamnus barbatus newly found in southern Siberia (North Asia)	8
Total mercury and methylmercury concentrations in water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) from a South Carolina coastal plain river	8
Reciprocal competitive effects of congeneric invaders, Trapa natans L. and Trapa bispinosa Roxb. var. iinumai Nakano, in established freshwater plant cultures	8
Macrophyte removal affects nutrient uptake and metabolism in lowland streams	8
Sediment carbon storage in subtidal beds of the invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea along an extreme water depth gradient, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands	8
Germination of the invasive water primrose Ludwigia grandiflora in Belgium and potential implications for management	8
Crossing the Atlantic: The tropical macroalga Caulerpa ashmeadii Harvey 1858 as a recent settler in Porto Santo Island (Madeira archipelago, North-eastern Atlantic)	8
The identification of abiotic stress by hydrogen peroxide concentration in submerged macrophyte tissues	8
Sargassum species as hydrozoans substrates: Key patterns of association or just availability?	8
Carbon limitation and aluminium toxicity prevents dominance of Crassula helmsii on weakly buffered soils	8
Multiple introduction events expand the range of the invasive brown alga Rugulopteryx okamurae to northern Spain	7
Invasive Nitellopsis obtusa (starry stonewort) has distinct late-season phenology compared to native and other invasive macrophytes in Minnesota, USA	7
Effects of the ultraviolet filter oxybenzone on physiological responses in a red macroalga, Gracilaria vermiculophylla	7
Herbivory in southeastern Brazilian mangroves: An analysis of 11 years of litterfall monitoring	7
The complete plastome of Blidingia marginata and comparative analysis with the relative species in Ulvales	7
Low irradiance disrupts the internal O2 dynamics of seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) leading to shoot meristem H2S intrusion	7
Marinomyxa marina presence in a Halophila stipulacea meadow near a fish farm in south Evoikos Gulf (Greece)	7
Morphological changes and biochemical reaction of Ulva rigida in response to the toxic effect of bisphenol A under experimental conditions	7
Biological control alters competition between Pontederia crassipes Mart. (Pontederiaceae) and Salvinia minima Baker (Salviniales: Salviniaceae) in a eutrophic waterbody	7
DNA barcoding and phylogenetic relationships of ecologically and commercially important seaweed species from the Azores (NE Atlantic)	7
The effect of abrupt increase in water temperature on the survival and growth of eelgrass Zostera marina	7
Genetic and epigenetic variation of Trapa bispinosa under slope gradient: A case study in a subtropical freshwater lake	7
Effects of desiccation and rehydration on carbon fixation and DOC release in Sargassum thunbergii	7
Distributional range shifts of Western Atlantic benthic Sargassum species (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) under future climate change scenarios	6
Rivers as corridors for gene flow of the neotropical bamboo Guadua velutina	6
Critical summer irradiance requirements for biomass accrual of the seagrass Zostera muelleri	6
Variation in nutritional quality of an invasive seagrass does not explain its low palatability to two key herbivores in a Caribbean Bay	6
Herbivore damage and riparian shade constrain biomass distribution in American water willow (Justicia americana)	6

Eucheumatoid seaweed farming in the southern Philippines	6
Geographical distribution of floating aquatic plants in relation to environmental conditions in southern Quebec, Canada	6
Impact of dye treatment as management strategy on available light may favour a highly invasive alien aquatic plant	6
Hybrid between Lemna minor and L. turionifera (L. × japonica, Lemnaceae) in East Europe is more frequent than parental species and poorly distinguishable from them	6
Genetic diversity of common reed in the southern Baltic Sea region – Is there an influence of disturbance?	6