OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Polar Biology is 5. 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 importance of Calanus glacialis for the feeding success of young polar cod: a circumpolar synthesis	31
Contrast of warm and cold phases in the Bering Sea to understand spatial distributions of Arctic and sub-Arctic gadids	30
Impacts of combined temperature and salinity stress on the endemic Arctic brown seaweed Laminaria solidungula J. Agardh	28
Population trends of penguins in the French Southern Territories	25
Update on the global abundance and distribution of breeding Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua)	24
Ontogenetic patterns in lipid and fatty acid biomarkers of juvenile polar cod (Boreogadus saida) and saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) from across the Alaska Arctic	22
The buoyancy-based biotope axis of the evolutionary radiation of Antarctic cryonotothenioid fishes	20
Yes, they can: polar bears Ursus maritimus successfully hunt Svalbard reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus	20
Reduced seasonal sea ice and increased sea surface temperature change prey and foraging behaviour in an ice-obligate Arctic seabird, Mandt’s black guillemot (Cepphus grylle mandtii)	19
The coastal Arctic marine soundscape near Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada	19
Circumpolar genetic population structure of polar cod, Boreogadus saida	18
Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) and killer whale (Orcinus orca) co-occurrence in the U.S. Pacific Arctic, 2009–2018: evidence from bowhead whale carcasses	18
Opportunistic fungi found in fairy rings are present on different moss species in the Antarctic Peninsula	18
Key processes regulating the early life history of Barents Sea polar cod	17
16S rRNA gene and 18S rRNA gene diversity in microbial mat communities in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica	16
Broad feeding niches of capelin and sand lance may overlap those of polar cod and other native fish in the eastern Canadian Arctic	15
Can heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) serve as biomarkers in Antarctica for future ocean acidification, warming and salinity stress?	15
Ringed seal (Pusa hispida) diet on the west coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway: during a time of ecosystem change	15
Spatial patterns, environmental correlates, and potential seasonal migration triangle of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) distribution in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas	14
Cultivable fungi associated with bryosphere of bipolar mosses Polytrichastrum alpinum and Polytrichum juniperinum in King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Maritime Antarctica	14
Molecular diversity of the microbial community in coloured snow from the Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, Maritime Antarctica)	14
Estimating microbial mat biomass in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica using satellite imagery and ground surveys	14
Detection of lamprey in Southernmost South America by environmental DNA (eDNA) and molecular evidence for a new species	14
The Little Auk Alle alle: an ecological indicator of a changing Arctic and a model organism	14
Variation in habitat use of Beaufort Sea polar bears	13

Variability in primary productivity and bio-optical properties in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during an austral summer	13
The diet of the Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides, a deep-sea top predator off Southwest Atlantic Ocean	13
Baleen turnover and gut transit in mysticete whales and its environmental implications	13
Sea lions (Otaria flavescens) from the end of the world: insights of a recovery	13
Early detection of marine non-indigenous species on Svalbard by DNA metabarcoding of sediment	13
Age- and sex-specific movement, behaviour and habitat-use patterns of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in the Eastern Canadian Arctic	13
Seasonal abundance, distribution, and growth of the early life stages of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) and saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) in the US Arctic	12
Myco- and photobiont associations in crustose lichens in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (Antarctica) reveal high differentiation along an elevational gradient	12
Dietary plasticity and the importance of salmon to brown bear (Ursus arctos) body size and condition in a low Arctic ecosystem	12
Heat-related massive chick mortality in an Imperial Cormorant Leucocarbo atriceps colony from Patagonia, Argentina	11
Arctic gadids in a rapidly changing environment	11
Un-crewed aerial vehicle population survey of three sympatrically breeding seabird species at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands	11
Microbial insights from Antarctic and Mediterranean shallow-water bone-eating worms	10
Estimating the average distribution of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba at the northern Antarctic Peninsula during austral summer and winter	10
Polar bear denning distribution in the Canadian Arctic	10
Community structure and spatial distribution of phytoplankton in relation to hydrography in the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea (autumn 2008)	10
Auditory biology of bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus)	10
Ecophysiological and ultrastructural characterisation of the circumpolar orange snow alga Sanguina aurantia compared to the cosmopolitan red snow alga Sanguina nivaloides (Chlorophyta)	9
A decade of marine mammal acoustical presence and habitat preference in the Bering Sea	9
Summer activity patterns for a moss and lichen in the maritime Antarctic with respect to altitude	9
Ontogenetic movements of cod in Arctic fjords and the Barents Sea as revealed by otolith microchemistry	9
Reproductive natural history of endangered Cook Inlet Beluga whales: insights from a long-term photo-identification study	9
The influence of depth and season on the benthic communities of a Macrocystis pyrifera forest in the Falkland Islands	9
Ocean currents as a potential dispersal pathway for Antarctica’s most persistent non-native terrestrial insect	9
Rolling stones gather moss: movement and longevity of moss balls on an Alaskan glacier	9
Movement, diving, and haul-out behaviors of juvenile bearded seals in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas, 2014–2018	9
Fifty-year change in penguin abundance on Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: results of the 2019–20 census	9
Mesozooplankton succession in a sub-Antarctic bay (Beagle channel, Southern tip of South America): distinctive annual patterns between two environmentally different zones	9
The last refugia for a polar relict pollinator: isolates of Bombus glacialis on Novaya Zemlya and Wrangel Island indicate its broader former range in the Pleistocene	9
Trophic niches of benthic crustaceans in the Pechora Sea suggest that the invasive snow crab Chionoecetes opilio could be an important competitor	9
An update on the indigenous vascular flora of sub-Antarctic Marion Island: taxonomic changes, sequences for DNA barcode loci, and genome size data	8
Biodiversity of Isopoda and Cumacea (Peracarida, Crustacea) from the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank, South-West Atlantic	8
Demographic and maturity patterns of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in an overwintering hotspot	8
Coprophagic behaviour of southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) during breeding period	8
Predictors of invertebrate biomass and rate of advancement of invertebrate phenology across eight sites in the North American Arctic	8
Population decline of the cape petrel (Daption capense) on King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica	8
Sea-ice habitat minimizes grazing impact and predation risk for larval Antarctic krill	8
Crary bank: a deep foraging habitat for emperor penguins in the western Ross Sea	8
Benthic communities at the marine protected area Namuncurá/Burdwood bank, SW Atlantic Ocean: detection of vulnerable marine ecosystems and contributions to the assessment of the rezoning process	8
Diet and breeding habitat preferences of White-tailed Eagles in a northern inland environment	8
Diet of capelin (Mallotus villosus) in the Eastern Canadian Arctic inferred from stomach contents and stable isotopes	8
Response of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) cell quotas to salinity and temperature shifts in the sea-ice diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus	8
Potential dispersal of tardigrades by birds through endozoochory: evidence from Sub-Antarctic White-bellied Seedsnipe (Attagis malouinus)	7
Could Norwegian fjords serve as an analogue for the future of the Svalbard fjords? State and fate of high latitude fjords in the face of progressive “atlantification”	7
Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) song pattern in the southern Chukchi Sea	7
Structure and distribution of fish assemblages at Burdwood Bank, the first Sub-Antarctic Marine Protected Area “Namuncurá” in Argentina (Southwestern Atlantic Ocean)	7
Diversity, distribution, and xerophilic tolerance of cultivable fungi associated with the Antarctic angiosperms	7
Genomics and transcriptomics analyses provide insights into the cold adaptation strategies of an Antarctic bacterium, Cryobacterium sp. SO1	7
Mitochondrial genome diversity and population mitogenomics of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) and Arctic dwelling gadoids	7
The first record of the golden jackal (Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758) in the Russian Subarctic	7

Ensemble forecasting of invasion risk for four alien springtail (Collembola) species in Antarctica	7
Diet composition and body condition of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in relation to sea ice habitat in the Canadian High Arctic	7
Distinct genetic clustering in the weakly differentiated polar cod, Boreogadus saida Lepechin, 1774 from East Siberian Sea to Svalbard	7
Decreased lipid storage in juvenile Bering Sea crabs (Chionoecetes spp.) in a warm (2014) compared to a cold (2012) year on the southeastern Bering Sea	7
Allometric relationships of ecologically important Antarctic and Arctic zooplankton and fish species	7
Phylogeography of split kelp Hedophyllum nigripes: northern ice-age refugia and trans-Arctic dispersal	7
Annual variation of oceanographic conditions changed migration timing of bowhead whales Balaena mysticetus in the southern Chukchi Sea	7
Cyanobacterial diversity of Svalbard Archipelago	7
Prokaryotic diversity and biogeochemical characteristics of benthic microbial ecosystems from James Ross Archipelago (West Antarctica)	7
Multi-scale temporal variability in biological-physical associations in the NE Chukchi Sea	6
Marine tardigrades from Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica with the description of a new species	6
Phytoplankton succession during a massive coastal diatom bloom at Marian Cove, King George Island, Antarctica	6
Artificial burrows as a tool for long-term studies of diving petrels	6
Spatial and temporal diet variability of Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae) and Emperor (Aptenodytes forsteri) Penguin: a multi tissue stable isotope analysis	6
Are the diets of sympatric Pygoscelid penguins more similar than previously thought?	6
Differences in diversity and photoprotection capability between ice algae and under-ice phytoplankton in Saroma-Ko Lagoon, Japan: a comparative taxonomic diatom analysis with microscopy and DNA barcod	6
Evaluation of factors influencing the eradication of annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) from Point Thomas Oasis, King George Island, Maritime Antarctica	6
Effects of iron limitation on carbon balance and photophysiology of the Antarctic diatom Chaetoceros cf. simplex	6
Epibenthic megafauna communities in Northeast Greenland vary across coastal, continental shelf and slope habitats	6
Invasion success of the large hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus) in a sub-antarctic insular ecosystem (Isla Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina)	6
High diversity of planktonic prokaryotes in Arctic Kongsfjorden seawaters in summer 2015	6
Deep diving harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in South Greenland: movements, diving, haul-out and breeding activities described by telemetry	6
Life-history traits of the Magellan plunderfish Harpagifer bispinis (Forster, 1801) in the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego, South America)	6
Unraveling the effects of environmental drivers and spatial structure on benthic species distribution patterns in Eurasian-Arctic seas (Barents, Kara and Laptev Seas)	6
Vagrant sub-Antarctic fur seal at tropical Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean	6
A phenological comparison of grizzly (Ursus arctos) and polar bears (Ursus maritimus) as waterfowl nest predators in Wapusk National Park	6
Recent shift in biological communities: A case study from the Eastern European Russian Arctic (Bol`shezemelskaya Tundra)	6
Antarctic minke whales find ice gaps along the ice edge in foraging grounds of the Indo-Pacific sector (60° E and 140° E) of the Southern Ocean	6
Trophic ecology of the yellowfin notothen, Patagonotothen guntheri (Norman, 1937) at the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank, Argentina	6
Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus depredating breeding Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses Thalassarche chlororhynchos on Gough Island	6
Lagged response of Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) abundance to environmental variability in the Ross Sea, Antarctica	6
Morphological dietary composition of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) along the East Antarctic continental slope	6
Giant petrels (Macronectes spp.) prey on depredating sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)	6
First evidence of microplastics in the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá at Burdwood Bank, Argentina: a study on Henricia obesa and Odontaster penicillatus (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)	6
Annual survival of Arctic terns in western Iceland	6
Genome size and chromosome number of ten plant species from Kerguelen Islands	6
Environmental drivers that influence microalgal species in meltwater pools on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica	6
High abundances of small copepods early developmental stages and nauplii strengthen the perception of a non-dormant Arctic winter	6
An extreme marine environment: a 14-month record of temperature in a polar tidepool	6
Persistent organic pollutants and mercury in a colony of Antarctic seabirds: higher concentrations in 1998, 2001, and 2003 compared to 2014 to 2016	6
Thermal adaptations of adults and eggs in the Arctic seed bug Nysius groenlandicus (Insecta: Hemiptera) from South Greenland	5
Pellet analysis evidences flexibility in the diet of Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus) during breeding at Esperanza/Hope Bay (Antarctic Peninsula)	5
Cold tolerance is similar but heat tolerance is higher in the alien insect Trichocera maculipennis than in the native Parochlus steinenii in Antarctica	5
First evidence of interchange of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) between the Magellan Strait and Antarctic Peninsula feeding grounds	5
Microbial diversity and dominant bacteria causing spoilage during storage and processing of the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba	5
Differences in the fecal microbiota due to the sexual niche segregation of captive Gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua	5
Degree of herbivory and intestinal morphology in nine notothenioid fishes from the western Antarctic Peninsula	5
Abundance, habitat use and food consumption of seabirds in the high-Arctic fjord ecosystem	5
Feeding ecology of the longtail southern cod, Patagonotothen ramsayi (Regan, 1913) (Notothenioidei) in the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank, Argentina	5
The taxonomic identity and distribution of the eel cod Muraenolepis (Gadiformes: Muraenolepididae) around South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	5
Fungal diversity in seasonal snow of Martel Inlet, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, assessed using DNA metabarcoding	5
Bioerosion ichnodiversity in barnacles from the Ross Sea, Antarctica	5
Summer circumpolar acoustic occurrence and call rates of Ross, Ommatophoca rossii, and leopard, Hydrurga leptonyx, seals in the Southern Ocean	5
Examination of saffron cod Eleginus gracilis (Tilesius 1810) population genetic structure	5
Parental care and demography of a spawning population of the channichthyid Neopagetopsis ionah, Nybelin 1947 from the Weddell Sea	5
Variability in nitrogen-derived trophic levels of Arctic marine biota	5
Large-scale genetic structure and diversity of Arctic rainbow smelt Osmerus dentex Steindachner et Kner, 1870 throughout its distributional range based on microsatellites	5
Variation among colonies in breeding success and population trajectories of wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans at South Georgia	5
Sub-Arctic alpine Vaccinium vitis-idaea exhibits resistance to strong variation in snowmelt timing and frost exposure, suggesting high resilience under climatic change	5
Do repeated captures and handling affect phenotype and survival of growing Snow Petrel (Pagodroma nivea)?	5
Tendons and ligaments of the Rangifer tarandus metapodial and hoof	5
Experimental evidence of antimicrobial activity in Antarctic seaweeds: ecological role and antibiotic potential	5
Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) reproductive capacity changes in three time frames during 1975–2010	5
Feeding ecology of the long finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas edwardii, in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, determined by stable isotopes analysis	5
Selecting environmental descriptors is critical for modelling the distribution of Antarctic benthic species	5
Penguin predation by extra-limital sub-Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus tropicalis	5
Preliminary study of the benthic fauna in lakes of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and Vaigach Island (the Russian Arctic)	5
Behavioral assessment of in-air hearing range for the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)	5
A review of leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) births and pups using a standardised age-class classification system	5
Genotoxicity of oxidative stress and UV-B radiation in Antarctic vascular plants	5
Identification and validation of new reference genes for accurate quantitative reverse transcriptase-PCR normalization in the Antarctic plant Colobanthus quitensis under abiotic stress conditions	5
Benthic scavenger community composition and carrion removal in Arctic and Subarctic fjords	5
Reproductive features in the sea cucumber Pentactella perrieri (Ekman, 1927) (Holothuroidea: Cucumariidae): a brooding hermaphrodite species from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean	5