OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Aquatic Microbial Ecology 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Substrate diversity affects carbon utilization rate and threshold concentration for uptake by natural bacterioplankton communities	16
Comparison of swab DNA extraction methods for examining sea star dermal microbiomes	15
Impact of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on plankton ciliates from a saline lowland river in South America	14
Feeding ecology and microbiome of the pteropod Limacina helicina antarctica	11
Diversity of taxon-specific traits of seasonally distinct unicellular eukaryotic assemblages in a eutrophic coastal area with marked plankton blooms	7
Seasonal and interannual variation in lower Columbia River phytoplankton (2005-2018): environmental variability and a decline in large bloom-forming diatoms	7
Complementary chromatic acclimation by shifts in phycobiliprotein spectral absorption in the cryptophyte Hemiselmis pacifica	6
CORRIGENDUM: Shifts in phytoplankton community structure modify bacterial production, abundance and community composition	6
Quorum sensing signal disrupts viral infection dynamics in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi	6
Spatial and temporal dynamics of coastal benthic microbial communities along a salinity gradient	6
Diversity of picoeukaryotes in the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean revealed by metabarcoding	6
Temporal niche partitioning of Skeletonema: seasonal succession of the community composition in surface water of Tokyo Bay	6
Mortality partitioning between viral lysis and microzooplankton grazing in successive phytoplankton blooms using dilution and molecular methods	6
Carbon-nitrogen association influences response of the microplankton food web to enrichment	5
The hypersaline northwestern Arabian Gulf contains a phylogenetically diverse and highly uneven community of viruses related to cyanophages and pelagiphages	5
Evaluation of the mycobiome of ballast water and implications for fungal pathogen distribution	5
Composition and temporal dynamics of sand-dwelling dinoflagellate communities from three Mediterranean beaches	5
Microalgal characterization during a mucilaginous bloom on deep gorgonian forests of Tavolara Punta Coda Cavallo MPA	4
Changes in microbial communities during seawater pre-treatment within a desalination plant	4
Insights into the planktonic to sessile transition in a marine biofilm-forming Pseudoalteromonas isolate using comparative proteomic analysis	3
Impact of increasing temperature on the taxonomic and metabolic structure of bacterial communities in a global warming context	3
Nitrate availability modulates induced defenses in Phaeocystis globosa against protozoan grazers	3
Salinity gradient differentiates potential novel ecotypes and diversity of Labyrinthulomycetes protists along the Haihe River, northern China	3
16S rRNA gene sequences of Candidatus Methylumidiphilus (Methylococcales), a putative methanotrophic genus in lakes and ponds	3
The microbiome of the seagrass Halophila ovalis: community structuring from plant parts to regional scales	3

Microbial communities (bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes) in a temperate estuary during seasonal hypoxia	3
Temporal variation in community structure of zoosporic fungi in Lake Biwa, Japan	3
Unraveling the distribution patterns of bacterioplankton in a mesoscale cyclonic eddy confined to an oxygen-depleted basin	2
Human impact on symbioses between aquatic organisms and microbes	2
Environmental influences shaping microbial communities in a low oxygen, highly stratified marine embayment	2
Compositional responses of aquatic bacterial communities and their network interactions to phytoplankton-derived dissolved organic matter from freshwater ponds	2
Determining growth rates of heterotrophic bacteria from 16S rRNA gene sequence-based analyses of dilution experiments	2
Non-random patterns of chytrid infections on phytoplankton host cells: mathematical and chemical ecology approaches	2