OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aquatic Sciences is 3. 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
Structure of planktonic food web in the Gulf of Gabès (Southeastern Mediterranean): potential importance of heterotrophic and mixotrophic microzooplankton	44
Conventional environmental assessments are inadequate for predicting and mitigating impacts of dams on migratory fish in Brazil: an integrative assessment approach for the Neotropics	20
Temperature, nutrients and planktivorous fish predation interact to drive crustacean zooplankton in a large plateau lake, southwest China	19
Effects of relic low-head dams on stream denitrification potential: seasonality and biogeochemical controls	17
Phylogeography and population structure of Ponticola gorlap (Teleostei: Gobiidae) in an evolutionary distinctive and ecologically threatened Caspian Sea sub-basin	14
Molecular level characterization of DOM along a freshwater-to-estuarine coastal gradient in the Florida Everglades	13
An inexpensive method for the measurement of photosynthetically active radiation profiles in waterbodies	12
Dissolved organic matter from surface and pore waters of a discontinuous permafrost watershed in central Alaska reveals both compositional and seasonal heterogeneity	12
Biota communities influence on nutrients circulation in hyporheic zone—a case study in urban spring niches in Bialystok (NE Poland)	11
Space use and residency patterns of largemouth bass relative to a freshwater protected area	11
Atmospheric CO2 availability induces varying responses in net photosynthesis, toxin production and N2 fixation rates in heterocystous filamentous Cyanobacteria (Nostoc and Nodularia)	11
Variability in the duration and timing of the estuarine to freshwater transition of critically endangered European eel Anguilla anguilla	11
Genetic diversity studies of Baikal endemic sponges at the interspecies and population levels using high-resolution microsatellite markers	11
Variability in fluorescent dissolved organic matter concentrations across diel to seasonal time scales is driven by water temperature and meteorology in a eutrophic reservoir	10
Mayfly taxonomic and functional diversity in hydrologically extreme habitats of temporary pools in the Mediterranean karst intermittent rivers	10
Hydrologic variability effects on catches of Prochilodus nigricans in the lower Amazon	10
Fish body geometry reduces the upstream velocity profile in subcritical flowing waters	10
Point and nonpoint sources of microplastics to two Southeast Michigan rivers and reduced biofilm function on plastic substrata	9
Fish community and its relationships with environmental variables in the channel connecting Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River	9
Environmental drivers alter PUFA content in littoral macroinvertebrate assemblages via changes in richness and abundance	9
Allochthonous versus autochthonous carbon subsidies in small river food webs depend on seasonality and riparian tree species	9
The relative importance of abiotic, biotic, and spatial factors in structuring the stream macroinvertebrate metacommunity in a temperate rainforest	9
Landscape regulation of microbial use of terrestrial carbon in boreal streams	9
Asymmetric competition for habitats between the temperate Japanese eel Anguilla japonica and the tropical Indo-Pacific eel A. marmorata	8
Determinants of zooplankton functional dissimilarity during years of El Niño and La Niña in floodplain shallow lakes	8

Influence of groundwater discharge on the hydrochemistry of coastal lagoons and marsh environments in Punta Rasa Natural Reserve area, Argentina	8
Ecological importance of crayfish claws in consumption of mobile benthic prey	8
Turnover structures in macrobenthic communities rather than nestedness in the Yellow River Delta wetland, China	8
Our everyday pollution: Are rural streams really more conserved than urban streams?	8
Effects of physicochemical and sediment–mineral dynamics on phosphorus concentration and biological productivity in Lagos coastal waters	8
Land use changes drive zooplankton ecological uniqueness and species contributions in Amazon ponds and streams	8
Green landscape and macrophyte cover influence macroinvertebrate taxonomic and functional feeding groups in urban waterbodies at multiple spatial scales	8
Coupling of iron and dissolved organic matter in lakes–selective retention of different size fractions	8
Different responses of taxonomic and functional diversity to environmental changes: case study of fish communities in the Zhoushan fishing ground, China	7
Canopy development influences early successional stream ecosystem function but not biotic assemblages	7
Hydrological conditions determine shifts of plankton metacommunity structure in riverine floodplains without affecting patterns of species richness along connectivity gradients	7
Nitrogen-15 NMR study on the incorporation of nitrogen into aquatic NOM upon chloramination	7
Differential abundance, composition and mesohabitat use by aquatic macroinvertebrate taxa in ponds with and without fish	7
Redox conditions and a moderate anthropogenic impairment of groundwater quality reflected on the microbial functional traits in a volcanic aquifer	7
Water surface variability in oceanic and estuarine coasts of Amapá, Brazil	7
Validity, applicability, and universality of fractal scaling laws for lakes in China	7
Avoidance behavior of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) shoals to low-frequency sound stimulation	7
Seedling adaptive characteristics of Phragmites australis to nutrient heterogeneity under salt stress using a split-root approach	7
Fish assemblage structure and functional guild composition of Matla Estuary, Indian Sundarbans	6
Abundance- and biomass-based metrics of functional composition of macroinvertebrates as surrogates of ecosystem attributes in Afrotropical streams	6
Transitional circulation patterns from full ice cover to ice-off in a seasonally ice-covered lake	6
Evolutionary biogeography of Cnesterodontini (Teleostei: Poeciliidae): area relationships and priority ranking for conservation	6
Toxic metal pollution of aquatic ecosystems of European Union nature protection areas in a region of intensive agriculture (Lake Gopło, Poland)	6
Global distribution of the invasive apple snail Pomacea canaliculata: analyzing possible shifts in climatic niche between native and invaded ranges and future spread	6
Long-term data show effects of atmospheric temperature anomaly and reservoir size on water temperature, thermal structure, and dissolved oxygen	6
Modeling future dissolved oxygen and temperature profiles in small temperate lake trout lakes	6
Diurnal variations in greenhouse gas diffusive emissions from a river covered with submerged macrophytes: environmental and biotic driving factors	6
Macroinvertebrate interactions stimulate decomposition in WWTP effluent-impacted aquatic ecosystems	6
The effect of natural organic matter (NOM) on the distribution and resources of mobile phosphorus in the bottom sediments of small retention reservoirs	5
Dispersal of aquatic invertebrates by lesser black-backed gulls and white storks within and between inland habitats	5
Sex, mate guarding, and reproductive state as potential modulators of herbivory in an aquatic consumer	5
Hydrological, geochemical and land use drivers of greenhouse gas dynamics in eleven sub-tropical streams	5
Timing of the reproductive cycle of Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) leucospilota (Brandt, 1835) from the Persian Gulf based on evaluation of gonad histomorphology and sex hormones	5
Decomposition of leaf litter mixtures in streams: effects of component litter species and current velocity	5
Littoral periphyton dynamics in newly established post-mining lakes	5
Trophic interactions and food web structure of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in afromontane wetlands: the influence of hydroperiod	5
Correction: The role of seedbanks and hyporheic refuges in supporting benthic invertebrate community resistance and resilience to dry phases	5
Comparing effects of microplastic exposure, FPOM resource quality, and consumer density on the response of a freshwater particle feeder and associated ecosystem processes	5
Ecological effects of mosquito control with Bti: evidence for shifts in the trophic structure of soil- and ground-based food webs	5
Hypolimnetic oxygen depletion in a deep oligomictic lake under climate change	5
Dormant and active ostracod communities in six rice fields of Yunnan, China	5
Riparian cover buffers the effects of abiotic and biotic predictors of leaf decomposition in subtropical streams	5
A global typological approach to classify lakes based on their eutrophication risk	5
Inhibited vertical mixing and seasonal persistence of a thin cyanobacterial layer in a stratified lake	5
Characterizing spatial and temporal variation in stable hydrogen isotopes (δ2H) between two distinct lentic freshwater food webs	5
Demographic consequences of mitigating strategies in planktonic invertebrates facing global browning of freshwater ecosystem	5
The impact of drought duration on two Potamogeton species with different growth forms	5
The structure, composition, and predicted microbiome functional genes in Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) grow-out ponds with different survival rates through high-throughput sequencing	4
Lignocellulolytic and plastolytic potential of groundwater and sediment bacteria from the serpentinization-driven hyperalkaline springs	4
Trophic dynamics of two omnivorous shrimps in the middle Paraná River	4

Lipid bound phosphorus in the seston of Lake Erie and its tributaries and its use as an indicator of algal P-limitation	4
Composition, structure, and distribution of diatom assemblages in Mediterranean thermal spring ecotones affected by natural and human disturbances	4
The spatiotemporal responses of phytoplankton to environmental variables in 7 coastal lagoons of Kızılırmak Delta (Samsun, Türkiye)	4
Riparian hunting spiders do not rely on aquatic subsidies from intermittent alpine streams	4
New insight into and characterization of DOC and DON for inland waterbodies in the Songnen Plain, Northeast China	4
Climatic and geographic variation as a driver of phenotypic divergence in reproductive characters and body sizes of invasive Gambusia holbrooki	4
Co-production of models to evaluate conservation alternatives for a threatened fish in a rapidly changing landscape	4
Diatom metacommunity structuring in a large lake: geomorphic, water chemistry and dispersal effects on diatom guilds in Lake Ladoga (north-western Russia)	4
Cyanobacteria and nitrates in karstic systems of Yucatan (Mexico) and Texas (USA)	4
Structural and functional changes in macrophyte species composition in softwater lakes after 60 years of land use	4
Ecological uniqueness and species contribution to beta diversity differ between fishes and crustaceans’ bycatch in subtropical shallow marine ecosystems	4
Tracking repeat spawning anadromous fish migrations over multiple years in a fragmented river suggests philopatry and sex-linked variation in space use	4
Spread and persistence of the invasive dinoflagellate Ceratium furcoides (Levander) Langhans through South America: watersheds in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil	4
Drivers of fish trophic guild composition in lakes of the Upper Paraná River floodplain	4
First insight in cyanobacterial and algal communities from cave stream (Stopić Cave, Serbia)	4
Effects of inter- and intraspecific competition and food availability on shredder invertebrates from an Amazonian stream	4
Out of gas: re-flooding does not boost carbon emissions from drawdown areas in semiarid reservoirs after prolonged droughts	4
Signal crayfish as a threat for European ectosymbionts: overlooked biodiversity losses	4
A critical review and knowledge gaps to assess and manage threatened parrotfishes’ stocks in Brazil	4
Zooplankton size-structure dynamics of a lowland tropical floodplain lake	4
Horizontal migration of zooplankton in lake–wetland interfaces. Can temperature-driven surface exchange flows modulate its patterns?	4
The Egyptian Nile estuarine habitats: a review	3
Impacts, challenges, and adaptation of small-scale fishers during the COVID-19 pandemic in selected tropical countries	3
Influence of an anthropogenic disturbance gradient on the abundance and biochemical characteristics of heterotrophic bacteria on beaches of the central coastal zone of Veracruz	3
Influence of gut microbiome on health and development of penaeid shrimps	3
Factors that influence the toxicity levels of metals in water and soils: a case study of Lake Nike, Enugu, Nigeria	3
Correction to: Experimental desiccation indicates high moisture content maintains hyporheic biofilm processes during drought in temperate intermittent streams	3
Monthly variation in organic-matter decomposition in agricultural stream and riparian ecosystems	3
Temperature affects carbon and nitrogen stable isotopic signatures of aquatic plants	3
Effects of cattle intrusion on environmental conditions and fish assemblages of temperate neotropical prairie streams	3
An extensive review of marine pigments: sources, biotechnological applications, and sustainability	3
Effects of aquatic dissolved organic matter redox state on adsorption to goethite	3
Increased drying threatens alpine pond biodiversity more than temperature increase in a changing climate	3
Benthic-pelagic equilibrium of carbon transfer in high-altitude lakes: featuring the role of lake’s characteristics and seasonal variation	3
Food web structure in the Xingu River rapids prior to operation of the Amazon’s largest hydropower plant	3
Correction: Agro is not cool: DNA damage and oxidative stress in anurans evidencing the devastation of subtropical grasslands	3
Micronutrients as growth limiting factors in cyanobacterial blooms; a survey of freshwaters in South East Australia	3
Significant diurnal variation of CO2 flux from a shallow eutrophic lake: effects of submerged aquatic vegetation and algae bloom	3
Compositional uniqueness and species contribution to beta diversity of aquatic macrophyte metacommunities from coastal wetlands	3
Patterns of genetic diversity of brown trout in a northern Spanish catchment linked to structural connectivity	3
Predicting the density of zooplankton subsidy to a stream with multiple impoundments using water quality parameters	3
Spatial ecology of non-native common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Lake Ontario with implications for management	3
Do stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values of Nitella flexilis differ between softwater and hardwater lakes?	3
Understanding the factors controlling biofilm as an autochthonous resource in shaded oligotrophic neotropical streams	3
Dissolved organic matter spectroscopy reveals a hot spot of organic matter changes at the river–reservoir boundary	3
Ecosystem services of urban rivers: a systematic review	3