OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aquatic Ecology 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Microplastics and freshwater microalgae: what do we know so far?	31
Aluminium in aquatic environments: abundance and ecotoxicological impacts	28
Can zooplankton species be used as indicators of trophic status and ecological potential of reservoirs?	22
Anthropogenic impacts influence the functional traits of Chironomidae (Diptera) assemblages in a neotropical savanna river basin	19
Molecular evidence of host-parasite interactions between zooplankton and Syndiniales	18
A comparison of decomposition rates and biological colonization of leaf litter from tropical and temperate origins	17
Rotifera in lake subhabitats	17
Effects of experimental warming on small phytoplankton, bacteria and viruses in autumn in the Mediterranean coastal Thau Lagoon	17
The effect of food availability on thermal stress in Daphnia magna: trade-offs among oxidative stress, somatic growth, and reproduction	17
The influence of microplastics on the toxic effects and biodegradation of bisphenol A in the microalgae Chlorella pyrenoidosa	16
Understanding the environmental roles of herbicides on cyanobacteria, cyanotoxins, and cyanoHABs	16
Diel vertical migration of copepods and its environmental drivers in subtropical Bahamian blue holes	16
Multi-year movements of adult and subadult bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas): philopatry, connectivity, and environmental influences	15
Top-down and bottom-up effects on zooplankton size distribution in a deep stratified lake	15
Influence of polystyrene microplastics on rotifer (Brachionus calyciflorus) growth, reproduction, and antioxidant responses	15
The crayfish distribution, feeding plasticity, seasonal isotopic variation and trophic role across ontogeny and habitat in a canyon-shaped reservoir	14
Spatial and environmental factors contributing to phytoplankton biogeography and biodiversity in mountain ponds across a large geographic area	14
Allometric relationships to assess ontogenetic adaptative changes in three NE Atlantic commercial sea cucumbers (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea)	13
“The giants’ feast”: predation of the large introduced European catfish on spawning migrating allis shads	13
Composition and co-occurrence patterns of Phragmites australis rhizosphere bacterial community	13
Prey contribution to the diet of Octopus insularis (Leite and Haimovici, 2008) using stable isotopes and stomach content analysis in the Western Gulf of Mexico	12
Heterogeneity of macrophyte banks affects the structure of fish communities in flooded habitats of the Amazon Basin	11
Medusae (Scyphozoa and hydrozoa) from the Moroccan Mediterranean coast: abundance and spatiotemporal dynamics and their economic impact	11
Decision-making with ecological process for coastal and marine planning: current literature and future directions	11
Effect of land use on the phytoplankton community of Pampean shallow lakes of the Salado River basin (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)	11

Out of the shadows: automatic fish detection from acoustic cameras	10
The effect of salinity on the grazing rate and survival of Daphnia magna females adapted to different salinities	10
Patterns of seagrass macrobenthic biodiversity in the warm-temperate Knysna estuarine bay, Western Cape: a review	10
What drives benthic macroinvertebrate dispersal in different lake substrata? The case of three Mediterranean lakes	10
Potential application of artificial neural networks for analyzing the occurrences of fish larvae and juveniles in an estuary in northern Vietnam	9
Searching for manatees in the dark waters of a transboundary river between Mexico and Belize: a predictive distribution model	9
Copepods as environmental indicator in lakes: special focus on changes in the proportion of calanoids along nutrient and pH gradients	9
Lipid mediators in marine diatoms	9
Unraveling the role of environmental factors and dispersal capacity in a metacommunity of Amazonian stream fishes	9
The effects of flood pulse on multiple aquatic organisms in a seasonal shallow lake	8
Depth-related plasticity in the diet composition of Pseudechinus magellanicus (Echinoidea, Temnopleuridae) in nearshore environments off central Patagonia, Argentina	8
Threshold concentrations of the road salt for adverse effects on females and resting eggs of cladoceran Moina macrocopa	8
Direct, water-chemistry mediated, and cascading effects of human-impact intensification on multitrophic biodiversity in ponds	8
Invertebrates in small shallow lakes and ponds: a new sampling method to study the influence of environmental factors on their communities	8
Long-term zooplankton composition data reveal impacts of invasions on community composition in the Waikato lakes, New Zealand	8
A critical review of environmental factors influencing the transport dynamics of microplastics in riverine systems: implications for ecological studies	7
The effect of different coverage of aquatic plants on the phytoplankton and zooplankton community structures: a study based on a shallow macrophytic lake	7
Impacts of exposure to mine tailings on zooplankton hatching from a resting egg bank	7
Application of deep learning in assessing the impact of flooding on the endangered freshwater fish Neolissochilus benasi (Cyprinidae) in a northern province of Vietnam	7
Chemical cues affecting recruitment and juvenile habitat selection in marine versus freshwater systems	7
Seamounts and oceanic currents drive the population structure of Octopus insularis in the Southwest Tropical Atlantic	7
Aquatic chemical ecology meets ecotoxicology	7
Effects of habitat complexity on trophic interactions of three congeneric fish species	7
Body P content increases over ontogeny in hemimetabolous macroinvertebrates in a Mediterranean high mountain stream	7
Riparian vegetation structure and seasonality influence functional diversity more than taxonomic diversity of stream fish assemblages in the Colombian Amazon	7
Coral reef collapse in South-Central Vietnam: a consequence of multiple negative effects	7
Impact of environmental conditions on phospholipid fatty acid composition: implications from two contrasting estuaries	6
Heavy metal phytoremediation of aqueous solution by Typha domingensis	6
Invasive Alternanthera philoxeroides has performance advantages over natives under flooding with high amount of nitrogen	6
Egg morphology may underpin the successful distribution of large branchiopods in temporary waters	6
Macrobenthic invertebrate energy densities and ecological status in freshwater watercourses (Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Northeast Italy)	6
Vallisneria natans detritus supports Daphnia magna somatic growth and reproduction under addition of periphyton	6
Differential effects of a catastrophic wildfire on downstream fish assemblages in an aridland river	6
Toward a phylogeny and biogeography of Diaphanosoma (Crustacea: Cladocera)	6
AcousticIA, a deep neural network for multi-species fish detection using multiple models of acoustic cameras	6
Social media in service of marine ecology: new observations of the ghost crab Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787) scavenging on Portuguese man-of-war Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	6
The role of changing pH on olfactory success of predator–prey interactions in green shore crabs, Carcinus maenas	6
Spatial variation in bacterial community and dissolved organic matter composition in groundwater near a eutrophic lake	6
Cigarette butt effects on diatom health in a stream ecosystem	6
European catfish Silurus glanis behaviour in response to a strong summer hypoxic event in a shallow lake	5
Assessment of the allelochemical activity of Ostreopsis cf. ovata and the ovatoxins towards competitive benthic microalgae	5
Infralittoral ostracoda and benthic foraminifera of the Gulf of Pozzuoli (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)	5
Strong top-down effects of omnivorous fish and macroinvertebrates on periphytic algae and macrophytes in a tropical reservoir	5
Characteristics of native predators are more important than those of alien prey in determining the success of biotic resistance in marine systems	5
Negative effects of ghost nets on Mediterranean biodiversity	5
Support from mother ramets declines with increasing independence of daughter ramets in submerged clonal Vallisneria natans	5
A study on evaluation index of the biotic integrity based on phytoplankton for a Chinese reservoir	5
The effects of inter-annual fluctuations in precipitation, lake surface area, and wind speed on phytoplankton structure in three shallow Mediterranean lakes (Sakarya, Turkey)	5
The invasive crayfish Faxonius immunis causes the collapse of macroinvertebrate communities in Central European ponds	5
An integrated analysis of pond ecosystem around Poyang Lake: assessment of water quality, sediment geochemistry, phytoplankton and benthic macroinvertebrates diversity and habitat condition	5

Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) diet and prey selection as assessed by the analysis of pellets collected under resting sites (River Ticino, north Italy)	5
Are aquatic Hemiptera good indicators of environmental river conditions?	5
Fish abundance estimation from multi-beam sonar by improved MCNN	5
Temporal variation in diversity, abundance and size class structure of planktonic copepods from a tropical estuary	5
Linear and nonlinear effects of nutrient enrichments on the diversity of macrobenthos in lowland watercourses	5
Influence of spatial and environmental factors on the structure of a zooplankton metacommunity in an intermittent river	5
Shifts in zooplankton communities in high-mountain lakes induced by singular events (fish stocking, earthquakes): evidence from a 20-year survey in Slovenia (Central Europe)	5
Community responses of intertidal foraminifera to pH variations: a culture experiment with propagules	5
Sphagnum physiological responses to elevated temperature, nitrogen, CO2 and low moisture in laboratory and in situ microhabitats: a review	5
Effects of leaf litter extracts from four tree species on aquatic invertebrates: an ecotoxicological risk assessment approach	5