OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Marine and Freshwater Research 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Remote sensing and geostatistics in urban water-resource monitoring: a review	125
Impact of dam construction on precipitation: a regional perspective	80
A trickle, not a flood: environmental watering in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	40
Wetland ecological character and wise use: towards a new framing	22
Evaluation and empirical study of Happy River on the basis of AHP: a case study of Shaoxing City (Zhejiang, China)	22
Extensive coral reef decline in Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam: Acanthaster planci outbreak: the final event in a sequence of chronic disturbances	20
Towards a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands	20
Population structure of the chub mackerel (Scomber colias) in the North-east Atlantic inferred from otolith shape and body morphometrics	19
Assessment of the causes and solutions to the significant 2018–19 fish deaths in the Lower Darling River, New South Wales, Australia	19
Ten key issues from the Global Wetland Outlook for decision makers	17
Recurrent coral bleaching in north-western Australia and associated declines in coral cover	16
Policy changes in dam construction and biodiversity conservation in the Yangtze River Basin, China	16
Reconstructing Kenya’s total freshwater fisheries catches: 1950–2017	15
Spatio-temporal variability of amphipod assemblages associated with rhodolith seabeds	14
Flow to nowhere: the disconnect between environmental watering and the conservation of threatened species in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	13
Key steps to improve the assessment, evaluation and management of fish kills: lessons from the Murray–Darling River system, Australia	13
Spatial and temporal variations in particulate organic carbon in Indonesian waters over two decades	13
Spatial variation of ostracod (Crustacea, Ostracoda) egg banks in temporary lakes of a tropical flood plain	12
Morphological and genetic characterisation of the introduced copepod Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus (Cyclopoida: Lernaeidae) occurring in the Murrumbidgee catchment, Australia	11
Lacking character? A policy analysis of environmental watering of Ramsar wetlands in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	11
Development of a 16S metabarcoding assay for the environmental DNA (eDNA) detection of aquatic reptiles across northern Australia	11
Contrasting natal origin and movement history informs recovery pathways for three lowland river species following a mass fish kill	11
Development of the text of the Ramsar Convention: 1965–1971	10
How fish kills affected traditional (Baakandji) and non-traditional communities on the Lower Darling–	10
Reproductive biology of female blue swimmer crabs in the temperate estuaries of south-eastern Australia	10

New South Wales rocky reefs are under threat	10
Australian forested wetlands under climate change: collapse or proliferation?	10
The ‘ecological character’ of wetlands: a foundational concept in the Ramsar Convention, yet still cause for debate 50 years later	10
Effect of climate variability on water quality trends in New Zealand rivers	10
Performance of acoustic telemetry in relation to submerged aquatic vegetation in a nearshore freshwater habitat	9
Ecohydraulic model for designing environmental flows supports recovery of imperilled Murray cod (	9
Rewilding watersheds: using nature’s algorithms to fix our broken rivers	9
Humpback whale (	9
Fifty years of criteria development for selecting wetlands of international importance	9
Water quality dynamics of floodplain lakes in relation to river flooding and cattle grazing	9
Climate change and cyanobacteria harmful algae blooms: adaptation practices for developing countries	9
Contamination by antibiotics and their degradation and removal methods	8
Dietary analysis and mesocosm feeding trials confirm the eastern rock lobster (	8
Kills in the Darling: assessing the impact of the 2018–20 mass fish kills on the fish communities of the Lower Darling–	8
Comparison of an extracellular v. total DNA extraction approach for environmental DNA-based monitoring of sediment biota	8
Abundance, distribution and reproduction of the Data-Deficient species (Squalus blainville) around Sardinia Island (central western Mediterranean Sea) as a contribution to its conservation	8
Continuing the discussion about ecological futures for the lower Murray River (Australia) in the Anthropocene	8
Otolith chemistry delineates the influence of natal origin, dispersal and flow on the population dynamics of golden perch (	8
Shifting baselines and political expediency in New Zealand	8
Preliminary investigation of reproductive hormone profiles in the blacktip shark (	8
Ecosystem structure and resilience of the Florida Bay Estuary: an original ecosystem model with implications for everglades restoration	8
The effect of environmental conditions on seasonal and inter-annual abundance of two species in the Yangtze River estuary	8
Tidal–diel patterns of movement, activity and habitat use by juvenile mangrove whiprays using towed-float GPS telemetry	8
What’s wrong with the Australian River Assessment System (AUSRIVAS)?	8
Intraspecific variation in diel patterns of rocky reef use suggests temporal partitioning in Port Jackson sharks	8
A decade-long study on mayfly emergence patterns	8
Identifying physiological and environmental influences on otolith chemistry in a coastal fishery species	8
Conventional tagging of sharks in Western Australia: the main commercial species exhibit contrasting movement patterns	7
Biology and conservation of the unique and diverse halophilic macroinvertebrates of Australian salt lakes	7
The more the merrier: using environmental flows to improve floodplain vegetation condition	7
Assessment of microplastic accumulation in aquatic insects of different feeding guilds collected from wastewater in Sohag Governorate, Egypt	7
Attribution of river water-quality trends to agricultural land use and climate variability in New Zealand	7
Hydra vulgaris assay as environmental assessment tool for ecotoxicology in freshwaters: a review	7
Field trials to determine the efficacy of aerators to mitigate hypoxia in inland waterways	7
Reframing the human–wetlands relationship through a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands	7
Hybridisation experiments between freshwater prawns Macrobrachium amazonicum and M. pantanalense (Decapoda: Palaemonidae), and the effects of geographical isolation	7
Long-lived life history for onaga Etelis coruscans in the Hawaiian Islands	7
Succession of marine fouling community influences the associated mobile fauna via physical complexity increment	7
Is the Paraíba do Sul River colourful? Prevalence of microplastics in freshwater, south-eastern Brazil	7
Host-associated microbiota of yellow stingrays (Urobatis jamaicensis) is shaped by their environment and life history	7
Review of options for creating and maintaining oxygen refuges for fish during destratification-driven hypoxia in rivers	7
Population demographics of golden perch (	7
Individual variation influences avoidance behaviour of invasive common carp (	7
Evaluation of a novel research trap for surveys of blue swimmer crab populations	7
An investigation of genetic connectivity shines a light on the relative roles of isolation by distance and oceanic currents in three diadromous fish species	6
Resilience of a native soil seed bank in a floodplain lake subjected to cropping, grazing and extended drought	6
Spatial variation and drivers of vegetation structure and composition in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia	6
Coastal wetland rehabilitation first-pass prioritisation for blue carbon and associated co-benefits	6
Age and growth of tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) from Western Australia	6
Use of voluntary environmental contracts for wetland governance in the European Mediterranean region	6

Microplastics in commercial bivalves harvested from intertidal seagrasses and sandbanks in the Ria Formosa lagoon, Portugal	6
Drivers restricting biodiversity in Australian saline lakes: a review	6
Historical abundance and distribution of the native flat oyster (	6
Shape variation of the prawn Macrobrachium jelskii (Palaemonidae: Decapoda) in the Neotropical semiarid drainages: an intra- and inter-basin investigation	6
Implications of water quality policy on land use: a case study of the approach in New Zealand	6
Blue, green and in-between: objectives and approaches for evaluating wetland flow regimes based on vegetation outcomes	6
Friend or foe? Development of odour detection, differentiation and antipredator response in an embryonic elasmobranch	6
Multi-decadal trends in large-bodied fish populations in the New South Wales Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	6
Potential water pollution from recycled concrete aggregate material	6
Cross-jurisdictional larval supply essential for eastern Australian spanner crabs (	6
Reproductive biology of the finetooth shark (Carcharhinus isodon) in the northern Gulf of Mexico, with evidence of both annual and biennial reproduction	6
What eats a cauliflower coral? An assessment of predation on the endangered temperate soft coral,	6
Presence and abundance of microplastics in edible freshwater mussel (	6
Elevation and land use as drivers of macroinvertebrate functional composition in Afromontane headwater streams	6
Bioenergetics of blue swimmer crab (	6
Organic matter and metal loadings influence the spatial gradient of the benthic bacterial community in a temperate estuary	5
Effects of magnetic fields related to submarine power cables on the behaviour of larval rainbow trout (	5
Rapid age estimation of longnose skate (	5
Anguillids in the upper Nu–Salween River, South-East Asia: species composition, distributions, natal sources and conservation implications	5
Everyone has their limits: reproductive mode drives amphibian responses to land use in coastal areas	5
A comparison of visual observation and DNA metabarcoding to assess the diet of juvenile sea turtle	5
Is acidification of samples for isotopic analysis of carbon and nitrogen necessary for shoreline marine species?	5
Trends in Indian Ocean marine fisheries since 1950: synthesis of reconstructed catch and effort data	5
Occurrence of emerging contaminants and analysis of oestrogenic activity in the water and sediments from two coastal lagoons in south-eastern Brazil	5
Potential fluctuation of δ	5
Sea-level rise, marine storms and the resilience of Mediterranean coastal wetlands: lessons learned from the Ebro Delta	5
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands	5
Reproductive biology of a bamboo shark as a framework for better fisheries management	5
Feral horses (	5
Comment on Davies	5
Distribution of nitrogen-cycling genes in an oxygen-depleted cyclonic eddy in the Alfonso Basin, Gulf of California	5
Forecasting water consumption on transboundary water resources for water resource management using the feed-forward neural network: a case study of the Nile River in Egypt and Kenya	5
Life on the farm: are zooplankton communities in natural ponds and constructed dams the same?	5
Climate change adaptation planning for an internationally important wetland, the Muir–Byenup System Ramsar Site in south-west Australia	5
Drivers of zooplankton dynamics in a small tropical lowland river	5
Molecular evidence reveals introduced populations of Eiseniella tetraedra (Savigny, 1826) (Annelida, Lumbricidae) with European origins from protected freshwater ecosystems of the southern Alborz Moun	4
Characterising fish habitat use of fringing oyster reefs using acoustic imaging	4
Positional and ontogenetic variation in vertebral centra morphology in five batoid species	4
Trophic ecology of sympatric juvenile stingrays within a nursery area	4
A comparison of catch efficiency and bycatch reduction of tuna pole-and-line fisheries using Japan tuna hook (JT-hook) and circle-shaped hook (C-hook)	4
Effects of metal accumulation on oxidative metabolism of	4
Mapping the spatial distribution of wetlands in Argentina (South America) from a fusion of national databases	4
Life history plasticity affects the population structure and distribution of the widespread migratory fish Galaxias brevipinnis	4
Life history of two data-poor but commercially valuable tropical reef fishes, Parupeneus barberinus and Mulloidichthys flavolineatus, from the Saipan fishery, Northern Mariana Islands	4
DNA barcoding and metabarcoding of highly diverse aquatic mites (Acarina) can improve their use in routine biological monitoring	4
Saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) attacks in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia	4
Spatial heterogeneity of the seed bank at a peat lake in Australia	4
Functional responses of mangrove fauna to forest degradation	4
Is traditional fisheries management correctly addressing the possible causes of fish production decline? The relationship between environmental degradation and artisanal river fisheries in the Magdale	4
Wetlands as social ecological systems, and relationality in the policy domain	4
Structure, distribution patterns and ecological responses to hydrological changes in benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in a regulated semi-arid river: baseline for biomonitoring studies	4
Relationships, social networks and the emergence of recovery-based river management: implications for practice and policy	4
Socio-ecological impacts of industrial aquaculture and ways forward to sustainability	4
Life-history characteristics of the eastern shovelnose ray,	4
Oil and gas exploration and development in the Lake Eyre Basin: distribution and consequences for rivers and wetlands, including the Coongie Lakes Ramsar Site	4
Phenology and litter production in the mangrove genus Xylocarpus along rainfall and temperature gradients in tropical Australia	4
Understanding salt-tolerance and biota–stressor interactions in freshwater invertebrate communities	4
Carbon sources supporting Australia's most widely distributed freshwater fish, Nematalosa erebi (Günther) (Clupeidae: Dorosomatinae)	4
Age estimation of barramundi (	4
Feeding ecology of juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna	4
DNA metabarcoding reveals multiple co-occurring species in	4
Invasive Japanese foraminifera in a south-west Australian estuary	4
Effects of the mangrove forest environment and tree species characteristics on fiddler crab communities	4
Nuclear–follower foraging behaviour between Western Australian common octopus and brown-spotted wrasse	4
Corrigendum to: Identifying physiological and environmental influences on otolith chemistry in a coastal fishery species	4
Multifaceted local action for the conservation of the transboundary Prespa lakes Ramsar sites in the Balkans	4
Seasonal variation in basal resources supporting fish biomass in longitudinal zones of the Usumacinta River Basin, southern Mexico	4