OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aquatic Sciences is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Lake browning may fuel phytoplankton biomass and trigger shifts in phytoplankton communities in temperate lakes	42
Total phosphorus and climate are equally important predictors of water quality in lakes	28
Hydrological, geochemical and land use drivers of greenhouse gas dynamics in eleven sub-tropical streams	20
Nitrogen removal processes in lakes of different trophic states from on-site measurements and historic data	15
Macrophytes enhance reach-scale metabolism on a daily, seasonal and annual basis in agricultural lowland streams	15
Dissolved organic matter spectroscopy reveals a hot spot of organic matter changes at the river–reservoir boundary	14
A review of sedimentation rates in freshwater reservoirs: recent changes and causative factors	14
Macrophyte stand complexity explains the functional α and β diversity of fish in a tropical river-floodplain	13
Effects of space and environment on phytoplankton distribution in subtropical reservoirs depend on functional features of the species	13
An extensive review of marine pigments: sources, biotechnological applications, and sustainability	12
Impacts of land use and hydrological alterations on water quality and fish assemblage structure in headwater Pampean streams (Argentina)	11
Ecosystem multifunctionality and stability are enhanced by macrophyte richness in mesocosms	11
Micronutrients as growth limiting factors in cyanobacterial blooms; a survey of freshwaters in South East Australia	11
Identification of next-generation International Humic Substances Society reference materials for advancing the understanding of the role of natural organic matter in the Anthropocene	11
High temperature, predation, nutrient, and food quality drive dominance of small-sized zooplankton in Neotropical lakes	10
Toxic metal pollution of aquatic ecosystems of European Union nature protection areas in a region of intensive agriculture (Lake Gopło, Poland)	10
Influence of fish predation on the dynamic of zooplankton and macroinvertebrates in floodplain lakes under different turbidity conditions: an experimental study	10
Controlling factors of phytoplankton distribution in the river–lake transition zone of a large lake	10
Spatial ecology of non-native common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Lake Ontario with implications for management	10
Significant diurnal variation of CO2 flux from a shallow eutrophic lake: effects of submerged aquatic vegetation and algae bloom	9
Changes in acidity, DOC, and water clarity of Adirondack lakes over a 30-year span	9
Ensemble of models shows coherent response of a reservoir’s stratification and ice cover to climate warming	9
Inhibited vertical mixing and seasonal persistence of a thin cyanobacterial layer in a stratified lake	9
The direct influence of climate change on marginal populations: a review	9
Temperature affects carbon and nitrogen stable isotopic signatures of aquatic plants	9

Modeling fish habitat: model tuning, fit metrics, and applications	9
Modeling the climate change impact on the habitat suitability and potential distribution of an economically important hill stream fish, Neolissochilus hexagonolepis, in the Ganges–Brahmaputra basin of	8
Food availability, depth, and turbidity drive zooplankton functional diversity over time in a Neotropical floodplain	8
Phenotypic responses to piscivory in invasive gibel carp populations	8
Effects of inter- and intraspecific competition and food availability on shredder invertebrates from an Amazonian stream	8
Effects of predation risk on invertebrate leaf-litter shredders in headwater streams in three Brazilian biomes	8
Asexual reproduction for overwintering of the submersed macrophyte Vallisneria spinulosa at different light intensities	8
Aquatic organic matter decomposition in the terrestrial environments of an intermittent headwater stream	8
Long-term data show effects of atmospheric temperature anomaly and reservoir size on water temperature, thermal structure, and dissolved oxygen	8
The network structure of intertidal meiofaunal communities from environmental DNA metabarcoding surveys in Northwest Iberia	8
Floods homogenize aquatic communities across time but not across space in a Neotropical floodplain	8
Community stability and seasonal biotic homogenisation emphasize the effect of the invasive tropical tanner grass on macrophytes from a highly dynamic neotropical tidal river	8
Determinants of zooplankton functional dissimilarity during years of El Niño and La Niña in floodplain shallow lakes	8
Changes in river ice cover in the context of climate change and dam impacts: a review	7
Cold-tolerant traits that favour northwards movement and establishment of Mediterranean and Ponto-Caspian alien aquatic invertebrates	7
Effect of cascade reservoirs on geochemical characteristics of rare earth elements in suspended particle matter in Lancangjiang River, Southwest China	7
Effect of the structural complexity of aquatic macrophytes on epiphytic algal, macroinvertebrates, and their interspecific relationships	7
Zooplankton influences on phytoplankton, water clarity, and nutrients in Lake Tahoe	7
Influence of glacial turbidity and climate on diatom communities in two Fjord Lakes (British Columbia, Canada)	7
Macrophyte life forms influence the effects of environmental and spatial factors on the beta-diversity of associated ostracod communities (Crustacea)	7
Cold thermopeaking-induced drift of nase Chondrostoma nasus larvae	7
Variability in fluorescent dissolved organic matter concentrations across diel to seasonal time scales is driven by water temperature and meteorology in a eutrophic reservoir	7
Climatic and geographic variation as a driver of phenotypic divergence in reproductive characters and body sizes of invasive Gambusia holbrooki	6
Biota communities influence on nutrients circulation in hyporheic zone—a case study in urban spring niches in Bialystok (NE Poland)	6
Small hydropower plants lead to higher litter breakdown rates in by-passed sections than in impounded reaches	6
Macroinvertebrate interactions stimulate decomposition in WWTP effluent-impacted aquatic ecosystems	6
Littoral periphyton dynamics in newly established post-mining lakes	6
Identifying critical transitions in seasonal shifts of zooplankton composition in a confined coastal salt marsh	6
Taxonomic, seasonal and spatial variation in the amino acid profile of freshwater macroinvertebrates	6
Seedling adaptive characteristics of Phragmites australis to nutrient heterogeneity under salt stress using a split-root approach	6
Dispersal of aquatic invertebrates by lesser black-backed gulls and white storks within and between inland habitats	6
Experimental desiccation indicates high moisture content maintains hyporheic biofilm processes during drought in temperate intermittent streams	6
Patterns of microbial abundance and heterotrophic activity along nitrogen and salinity gradients in coastal wetlands	5
Short‐term starvation affects fatty acid metabolism of Daphnia magna neonates and juveniles	5
A bibliometric study on the use of diatoms in water quality monitoring and bioassessment in Africa across 10-year (2012–2022) period	5
The universal trophic index: new methodological approach to eutrophication monitoring and control	5
Response of stream ecosystem structure to heavy metal pollution: context-dependency of top-down control by fish	5
Riparian hunting spiders do not rely on aquatic subsidies from intermittent alpine streams	5
Abundance- and biomass-based metrics of functional composition of macroinvertebrates as surrogates of ecosystem attributes in Afrotropical streams	5
Hydrologic variability effects on catches of Prochilodus nigricans in the lower Amazon	5
Impact of zebra mussels on physiological conditions of unionid mussels in Texas	5
Export of photolabile and photoprimable dissolved organic carbon from the Connecticut River	5
An inventory and typology of permanent floodplain lakes in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley: a first step to conservation planning	5
Diatom response to environmental gradients in the high mountain lakes of the Colombia’s Eastern Range	5
Co-occurrence and potential resource partitioning between oligochaetes and chironomid larvae in a sediment depth gradient	5
Monthly variation in organic-matter decomposition in agricultural stream and riparian ecosystems	5
Differential abundance, composition and mesohabitat use by aquatic macroinvertebrate taxa in ponds with and without fish	5
Catchments affect growth rate of Northern Pike, Esox lucius, in subarctic lakes	5
The structure and functionality of communities and food webs in streams along the epigean–hypogean continuum: unifying ecological stoichiometry and metabolic theory of ecology	5
Anthropogenic activities destabilized riverine bacterial communities by increasing synchrony between taxa	5

Unraveling the phytoplankton altitudinal dynamics in relation to environmental variables in a Himalayan River, Teesta, India	5
Patterns of genetic diversity of brown trout in a northern Spanish catchment linked to structural connectivity	5
Hypolimnetic oxygen depletion in a deep oligomictic lake under climate change	5
Coupling of iron and dissolved organic matter in lakes–selective retention of different size fractions	5
Trace metal and nitrogen concentrations differentially affect bloom forming cyanobacteria of the genus Dolichospermum	4
Evaluation of Zayandehroud basin health in the Iranian plateau	4
Atmospheric CO2 availability induces varying responses in net photosynthesis, toxin production and N2 fixation rates in heterocystous filamentous Cyanobacteria (Nostoc and Nodularia)	4
Contribution of riverine dissolved organic carbon to organic carbon decomposition in the Ariake Sea, Japan, a coastal area suffering from summer hypoxia	4
Taxonomic and functional aspects of diversity and composition of plankton communities in shallow lentic ecosystems along the human impact and environmental gradients	4
Origin and dynamics of surface water - groundwater flows that sustain the Matusagaratí Wetland, Panamá	4
Site contributions to phytoplankton beta diversity along two subtropical reservoirs	4
Internal phosphorus loading alters nutrient limitation and contributes to cyanobacterial blooms in a polymictic lake	4
Effects of aquatic dissolved organic matter redox state on adsorption to goethite	4
Exploring macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the dynamic southern Balkan stream network of the Vjosa using preservative-based DNA metabarcoding	4
Molecular level characterization of DOM along a freshwater-to-estuarine coastal gradient in the Florida Everglades	4
Diatom-based inference model for conductivity reconstructions in dryland river systems from north Patagonia, Argentina	4
Dynamic phytoplankton community structure in a subtropical reservoir during an extended drought, Central Texas, USA	4
Spatial and vertical distribution of aerobic and anaerobic dark inorganic carbon fixation in coastal tropical lake sediments	4
Denitrification in intertidal sediments of a tropical estuary subject to increasing development pressures	4
Continental-scale effects of phytoplankton and non-phytoplankton turbidity on macrophyte occurrence in shallow lakes	4
Decomposition of leaf litter mixtures in streams: effects of component litter species and current velocity	4
Protecting river eco-hydrological processes: insights from water temperature studies	4
Effects of relic low-head dams on stream denitrification potential: seasonality and biogeochemical controls	4
Bellamya aeruginosa (Reeve) regulates bacterial community features in sediment harbouring different submerged macrophytes under different nutrient levels	4
Anthropogenic activities and habitat complexity influence fish functional diversity in a Neotropical reservoir	4
Air temperature effects on nitrogen and phosphorus concentration in Lake Chaohu and adjacent inflowing rivers	4
How does the phytoplankton community respond to the effects of La Niña and post-drought events in a tide-dominated Amazon estuary?	4