Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Papers
(The median citation count of Limnology and Oceanography Letters 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Tried and true vs. shiny and new: Method switching in long‐term aquatic datasets120
Aquatic reflectance derived from Sentinel‐2 Multispectral Imager data for inland waters in the conterminous United States82
Nitric oxide supersaturation in the surface waters of the oligotrophic Atlantic Ocean75
Ice‐melt period dominates annual carbon dioxide evasion from clear‐water Arctic lakes64
A global review of pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean's elusive gelatinous “fire‐bodies”55
Unveiling differential thermal sensitivities in marine phytoplankton within the China Seas50
Biogeochemical‐Argo floats show that chlorophyll increases before carbon in the high‐latitude Southern Ocean spring bloom49
Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau44
Sequestration by the biological carbon pump: Do we really know what we are talking about?44
Eutrophication triggers diel and seasonal shifts of carbon dioxide and oxygen in tropical urban coastal waters39
Grazer‐induced changes on mechanical properties of diatoms frustule: A new proof for a watery arms race35
Cross‐contamination risks in sediment‐based resurrection studies of phytoplankton34
Blooms also like it cold32
Exploring the mismatch between the theory and application of photosynthetic quotients in aquatic ecosystems31
Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north‐temperate lakes29
Validity of the Landsat surface reflectance archive for aquatic science: Implications for cloud‐based analysis29
Field measurements and model predictions of turbulent kinetic energy in canopies of sparse vegetation under tidal flows26
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An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem25
Divergent responses of the diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii to ocean acidification during light and dark periods25
Increased anoxia following species invasion of a eutrophic lake24
Key bacterial groups maintain stream multifunctionality in response to episodic drying24
Recent warming of the Kuroshio Current has promoted offshore sediment transport in the Yellow Sea24
Seasonal patterns of microbial diversity across the world oceans23
Clarifying water clarity: A call to use metrics best suited to corresponding research and management goals in aquatic ecosystems22
Coupling air–water CO 2 flux and primary production dynamics under hydro22
Parameterizing air–sea CO 2 transfer in a macroalgal habitat and assessi22
Calcium carbonate and phosphorus interactions in inland waters21
Energy inputs imprint seasonality and fractal structure on river metabolic regimes21
The cycling of glycine betaine and homarine in marine microbial communities: Quantitative flux measurements and the role of competitive uptake inhibition20
Show and tell: approaches for effective figures20
Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie20
Biologically driven isotope fractionation in ultrastructurally different shell portions of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera): Implications for stream water δ18O 20
Widespread decline in the abundance of sea cucumber assemblages in atolls of the protected Rowley Shoals, northwestern Australia20
Taxonomic identity, biodiversity, and antecedent disturbances shape the dimensional stability of stream invertebrates19
The role of surface water waves on cyanobacterial blooms in lakes19
Arctic fishes reveal patterns in radiocarbon age across habitats and with recent climate change19
Local water year values for the conterminous United States19
Taking steps to address inequities in open‐access publishing through an early career publication honor19
Brachiopods as archives of intrannual, annual, and interannual environmental variations19
Shedding light on cobalamin photodegradation in the ocean19
Widespread synchrony in phosphorus concentrations in northern lakes linked to winter temperature and summer precipitation18
Confirming existing parameterizations for methane gas transfer velocity in lakes based on direct and high‐frequent methods18
Enhanced stream greenhouse gas emissions at night and during flood events18
Thermal buffering by tidally generated internal bores on the shallows of a remote coral atoll17
Quantifying methane emissions from Laurentian Great Lakes estuaries using in situ measurements, remote sensing, and machine learning17
Uptake of Prochlorococcus ‐derived metabolites by Alteromonas macleodii MIT1002 17
Harnessing nature's buffer: Assessing the role of bivalve shells in coastal alkalinity regeneration17
Rapid phytoplankton response to wind forcing influences productivity in upwelling bays17
Salinity is diagnostic of maximum potential chlorophyll and phytoplankton community structure in an Eastern Boundary Upwelling System16
A dataset of individual wet weights of benthic macroinvertebrates15
LAGOS‐US RESERVOIR: A database classifying conterminous U.S. lakes 4 ha and larger as natural lakes or reservoir lakes15
Extreme plasticity in the photosystem composition of a low‐light Prochlorococcus ecotype in response to iron and light15
Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding and future perspectives15
Impacts of riverine heatwaves on rates of ecosystem metabolism in the United States15
A matter of salt: Global assessment of the effect of salt ionic composition as a driver of aquatic bacterial diversity14
Eutrophication and ice phenology influence methane storage in north temperate lakes14
Oyster shells as archives of present and past environmental variability and life history traits: A multi‐disciplinary review of sclerochronology methods and applications14
Contrasting greenhouse gas dynamics along a coastal‐to‐oligotrophic ocean continuum14
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Phosphate limitation threshold for phosphonate utilization and methane production by carbon–phosphorus lyase in Stutzerimonas frequens14
Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers14
Combining genetic and isotope frameworks improves reconstruction of fish provenance across riverscapes13
Anthropogenic nutrient inputs affect productivity–biodiversity relationships in marine tintinnid assemblages13
Sulfate enrichment in estuaries of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: The potential effect of sulfide oxidation on carbonate chemistry under a changing climate12
Resolving the environmental factors that determine pond thermal refuge quality12
DOC, grazers, and resilience of phytoplankton to enrichment12
Tropical river discharge dominates riverine carbon export to Australia's coastal waters12
Age‐based δ15N and δ13C values of otolith organic matter reveal trophic ecology in marine fishes12
A new approach to predicting and understanding cyanobacteria bloom toxicity12
Oceanographic heterogeneity facilitates gelatinous zooplankton niche space and diversity12
Temperature‐driven diet shift in an invasive omnivorous crustacean feeding on plankton11
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Ponds are neither dimictic nor polymictic: A variable transition season between stratified summers and mixed autumns11
A rationale for higher ratios of CH4 to CO2 production in warmer anoxic freshwater sediments and soils11
Efficient cobalamin uptake and cycling contribute to the lack of cobalamins in the surface cobalt‐binding ligand pool in the North Pacific11
Qualitative and quantitative changes in phenology of chlorophyll a concentrations during the transition from eutrophy to oligotrophy11
Boat wakes enhance oyster reef mortality in a short‐fetch estuary11
Seasonal variation in methane ebullition in a temperate hydropower reservoir impacts annualized estimates11
The role of environmental and life history traits in larval growth and settlement success of the blenny Ophioblennius trinitatis11
Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities11
Contrasting impacts of warming and browning on periphyton10
Emerging patterns of CO 2  :  10
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Imprint of Indian Ocean Dipole on nitrous oxide dynamics10
Direct contribution of invertebrate holobionts to methane release from coastal sediments10
Reconstructing life‐time reproductive histories using steroid hormones in cephalopod beaks10
Decadal warming has intensified Microcystis ‐dominated cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie10
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Century‐scale resilience of stored seagrass blue carbon10
Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning10
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Dissolved organic matter offsets the detrimental effects of climate change in the nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera10
Microbial regulation of global macroalgal blooms (green tides): From holobiont interactions to bloom dynamics and biogeochemistry9
Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on inland urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export9
Tagging of water masses with covariance of trace metals and prokaryotic taxa in the Southern Ocean9
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Earlier ice melt increases hypolimnetic oxygen despite regional warming in small Arctic lakes9
Concurrent global change and marine heatwaves disturb phototrophic more than heterotrophic protist diversity9
Polyphosphate phosphorus in the Great Lakes9
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Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO2 equilibration for marine CO2 removal9
Climate‐influenced phenology of larval fish transport in a large lake9
A model of near‐sea ice phytoplankton blooms9
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Impacts of residential fertilizer ordinances on Florida lacustrine water quality8
Unexpected mismatches in population structure among marine mussel life‐history stages reveal the true scales of planktonic larval dispersal8
An updated view on the long‐term survival and significance of marine protist resting stages8
Variable phenology but consistent loss of ice cover on 1213 Minnesota lakes8
Whatever it takes—Shaping the L&O Letters Early Career Publication Honor to deliver true benefit8
Drainage‐induced browning causes both loss and change of benthic biodiversity in headwater streams8
Estimating ocean net primary productivity from daily cycles of carbon biomass measured by profiling floats8
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Spatiotemporal assessment of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the Bermejo River Basin in the Ecuadorian Amazonia8
Tracing the origins of metalimnetic methane in a stratified large lake: Insights from high‐resolution mapping and three‐dimensional hydrodynamic modeling8
Degassing fluxes in a temperate hydropower reservoir predictable by deep‐water dissolved oxygen but highly sensitive to discharge variability8
A novel mechanism explaining the temperature dependence of marine unicellular nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacteria7
Temporal dynamics of mesopelagic fishes within a mesoscale eddy: A Lagrangian perspective7
Correction to “Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean”7
Parasite infection shapes the pathobiome and behavior of marine zooplankton7
Primary productivity coupled to oxic methane production in coastal waters of southern China7
Hydrology, rather than wildfire burn extent, determines post‐fire organic and black carbon export from mountain rivers in central coastal California7
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Tracking freshwater browning and coastal water darkening from boreal forests to the Arctic Ocean7
Assessing N2 fixation flux and its controlling factors in the (sub)tropical western North Pacific through high‐resolution observations7
Extraordinary methane levels in a small bar‐built tropical estuary7
Phytoplankton as indicators of global warming?7
High rates of carbon burial linked to autochthonous production in artificial ponds7
Short wave attenuation by a kelp forest canopy7
MacroSheds: A synthesis of long‐term biogeochemical, hydroclimatic, and geospatial data from small watershed ecosystem studies7
Unprecedented warming and salinization observed in the deep Adriatic6
Lake trophic state modulates the sensitivity of harmful algal blooms to antecedent weather conditions6
Global Ocean dimethylsulfide photolysis rates quantified with a spectrally and vertically resolved model6
Idiosyncratic phenology of greenhouse gas emissions in a Mediterranean reservoir6
Understanding and predicting harmful algal blooms in a changing climate: A trait‐based framework6
Diel dynamics of zooplankton fecal pellet flux revealed by integrated in situ imaging observations and modeling6
Significant benthic fluxes of bioavailable dissolved amino acids to the ocean: Results from the East/Japan Sea6
Alkalinity contributes at least a third of annual gross primary production in a deep stratified hardwater lake6
Establishing fluvial silicon regimes and their stability across the Northern Hemisphere6
Groundwater‐stream connections shape the spatial pattern and rates of aquatic metabolism6
Over half a century record of limnology data from Lake Powell, desert southwest United States: From reservoir filling to present day (1964–2021)6
Nonlinear water clarity trends and impacts on littoral area in Minnesota lakes6
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Light and nutrients modulate the temperature‐sensitivity of growth in phytoplankton6
From temporal variability to integrated metabolic balance: Interpreting total alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon relationships in dynamic coral reef ecosystems6
Methane emissions from canals draining tropical peatlands: Constraining temporal variability and emissions pathways6
Acoustic twilight: A year‐long seafloor monitoring unveils phenological patterns in the abyssal soundscape6
Riverine nitrate and nitrification cannot be the only sources for nitrate assimilation in the Amazon River Plume margins6
Knowing your limits: Patterns and drivers of nutrient limitation and nutrient–chlorophyll relationships in US lakes6
Unraveling Lake Geneva's hypoxia crisis in the Anthropocene5
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Novel sequential modeling framework improves phytoplankton biomass predictions in response to multiple environmental stressors5
Potential drivers and consequences of regional phosphate depletion in the western subtropical North Pacific5
Deep‐learning‐powered data analysis in plankton ecology5
Spatially varying plankton synchrony patterns at seasonal and interannual scales in a well‐connected shelf sea5
Sustained upward groundwater discharge through salt marsh tidal creeks5
Intermediate Western Boundary Current speeds from the southeastern Brazilian margin: A 16,000‐year record from grain‐size evidence5
Glacial meltwater drives high CH 4 supersaturation in Maxwell Bay, King 5
Leaf litter breakdown phenology in headwater stream networks is modulated by groundwater thermal regimes and litter type5
Anthropogenic interference and climatic change control long‐term dissolved silicate variation in the Yellow River5
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Sink or break: Oil increases resistance of phytoplankton aggregates to fragmentation5
Phosphorus limitation determines the quality of dissolved organic matter released by marine heterotrophic prokaryotes5
Particulate organic carbon sedimentation triggers lagged methane emissions in a eutrophic reservoir5
Aquatic macrophytes as nature‐based solutions: Challenges and opportunities across inland and coastal waters5
Coastal acidification alters estuarine sediment nitrous oxide and methane fluxes5
Current methods overestimate coastal blue carbon potential5
Drivers of dissolved organic matter processing in subterranean estuaries5
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The synthesis collection: Fifty‐one essential articles for today's aquatic scientist5
The elephant in the conference room: reducing the carbon footprint of aquatic science meetings4
Catastrophic bleaching in protected reefs of the Southern Great Barrier Reef4
Expanding the horizons of sclerochronology: New perspectives for life history and environmental monitoring4
Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community‐level salt tolerance4
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Forecasting climate and human alterations to coastal and estuarine dissolved organic matter4
Some considerations of measuring temperature sensitivity in thermal ecology4
Low‐molecular‐weight reduced sulfur substances: A major component of nonvolatile dissolved organic sulfur in the Pacific Ocean4
Zooplankton diel vertical migration enhances carbon export via distinct mechanisms in a warming North Pacific4
CoralSpec30M : A large‐scale coral spectral dataset covering multiple species, scales, and health conditions4
Mesocosm experiments validate induction of Daphnia vertical migration by the fish‐derived kairomone 5α‐cyprinol sulfate4
Aquatic heatwaves increase surface chlorophyll concentrations in experimental and reference lakes4
Volume scattering function measured in the oceans and lakes (2009–2024)4
Coastal wetland adaptability to sea level rise: The neglected role of semi‐diurnal vs. diurnal tides4
Adaptive traits of Planctomycetota bacteria to thrive in macroalgal habitats and establish mutually beneficial relationship with macroalgae4
Snow removal cools a small dystrophic lake4
Typhoon‐induced surface chlorophyll a decline on the shelf of the South China Sea4
Relative importance of bacterivorous mixotrophs in an estuary‐coast environment3
Road salt pollution shifts urban stormwater ponds toward cyanobacterial dominance3
Disaster avoided: current state of the Baltic Sea without human intervention to reduce nutrient loads3
The deep ocean as a major sink for terrestrial organic carbon3
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Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean3
Wildfire smoke reduces water temperature and metabolic rates in lakes and ponds across a small headwater watershed3
Enhanced total carbon in runoff following rewetting of drained boreal and hemi‐boreal wetlands3
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Where land meets water: The overlooked role of groundwater seepage in lake ecosystems3
Grazer‐induced aggregation in diatoms3
Climate change and El Niño Southern Oscillation influence on mixing regime and water quality in a deep tropical mountain lake3
Multiple climatic drivers increase pace and consequences of ecosystem change in the Arctic Coastal Ocean3
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Phytoplankton iron limitation in the Atlantic Southern Ocean driven by seasonal mixed‐layer dynamics3
Emerging occurrence of Gambierdiscus carolinianus in the Azores: The northernmost Atlantic record3
Correction to “Seasonal Patterns of Microbial Diversity Across the World Oceans”3
Rethinking plastic as a habitat modifier and a transport vector for organisms in aquatic environments3
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