OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Prochlorococcus,Synechococcus, and picoeukaryotic phytoplankton abundances in the global ocean	40
Vertical stratification of environmental DNA in the open ocean captures ecological patterns and behavior of deep‐sea fishes	32
Total alkalinity production in a mangrove ecosystem reveals an overlooked Blue Carbon component	31
Carbon and alkalinity outwelling across the groundwater‐creek‐shelf continuum off Amazonian mangroves	27
Reconciling models and measurements of marsh vulnerability to sea level rise	26
Blooms also like it cold	25
Impact of salinization on lake stratification and spring mixing	25
Effects of lake warming on the seasonal risk of toxic cyanobacteria exposure	25
Methanogenesis exceeds CH₄ consumption in eutrophic lake sediments	24
Nutrient co‐limitation in the subtropical Northwest Pacific	24
Dissolved organic matter regulates nutrient limitation and growth of benthic algae in northern lakes through interacting effects on nutrient and light availability	24
Sea‐level rise drives wastewater leakage to coastal waters and storm drains	23
Taxonomic and nutrient controls on phytoplankton iron quotas in the ocean	23
LAGOS‐US LOCUS v1.0: Data module of location, identifiers, and physical characteristics of lakes and their watersheds in the conterminous U.S.	23
Ocean sediments as the global sink for marine micro‐ and mesoplastics	23
Lake salinization drives consistent losses of zooplankton abundance and diversity across coordinated mesocosm experiments	22
Nitrogen fixation: A poorly understood process along the freshwater‐marine continuum	22
Thinking like a consumer: Linking aquatic basal metabolism and consumer dynamics	22
Pore‐water exchange flushes blue carbon from intertidal saltmarsh sediments into the sea	21
Cascading effects of freshwater salinization on plankton communities in the Sierra Nevada	21
Internal loading in stormwater ponds as a phosphorus source to downstream waters	20
Do diatoms dominate benthic production in shallow systems? A case study from a mixed seagrass bed	19
Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers	18
Elevated organic carbon pulses persist in estuarine environment after major storm events	17
Lake browning generates a spatiotemporal mismatch between dissolved organic carbon and limiting nutrients	17

Whole‐ecosystem oxygenation experiments reveal substantially greater hypolimnetic methane concentrations in reservoirs during anoxia	17
Giant kelp microbiome altered in the presence of epiphytes	17
Effects of chloride and nutrients on freshwater plankton communities	16
Interactive effects of iron and temperature on the growth of Fragilariopsis cylindrus	16
Effects of freshwater salinization on a salt‐naïve planktonic eukaryote community	16
Body size, trophic position, and the coupling of different energy pathways across a saltmarsh landscape	16
Variability in marsh migration potential determined by topographic rather than anthropogenic constraints in the Chesapeake Bay region	15
Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome	15
Methane emission offsets carbon dioxide uptake in a small productive lake	15
Arctic seals as tracers of environmental and ecological change	14
Highest rates of gross primary productivity maintained despite CO₂ depletion in a temperate river network	14
Synthesizing 35 years of seagrass spatial data from the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia	14
Density‐dependent mechanisms regulate spore formation in the diatom Chaetoceros socialis	14
Augmentation of global marine sedimentary carbon storage in the age of plastic	14
Thicker shells reduce copepod grazing on diatoms	14
Winter inverse lake stratification under historic and future climate change	14
Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau	14
Increasing heatwave frequency in streams and rivers of the United States	13
Integrating siphonophores into marine food‐web ecology	13
The slow and steady salinization of Sparkling Lake, Wisconsin	12
Climate warming amplifies the frequency of fish mass mortality events across north temperate lakes	12
Microbial methane oxidation efficiency and robustness during lake overturn	12
Flow intermittence alters carbon processing in rivers through chemical diversification of leaf litter	12
Light fluctuations are key in modulating plankton trophic dynamics and their impact on primary production	12
Biogeochemical control points of connectivity between a tidal creek and its floodplain	12
Reconsideration of the phytoplankton seasonality in the open Black Sea	12
Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO₂ equilibration for marine CO₂ removal	11
Daily surface temperatures for 185,549 lakes in the conterminous United States estimated using deep learning (1980–2020)	11
Risk to native marine macroalgae from land‐use and climate change‐related modifications to groundwater discharge in Hawaiʻi	11
Environmental variability in aquatic ecosystems: Avenues for future multifactorial experiments	11
Microplastics alter feeding strategies of a coral reef organism	11
Simple rules for concise scientific writing	11
Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on inland urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export	11
Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community‐level salt tolerance	11
Worms and submersed macrophytes reduce methane release and increase nutrient removal in organic sediments	11
Deep zooplankton rely on small particles when particle fluxes are low	10
Constraining growth rates and the ratio of living to nonliving particulate carbon using beam attenuation and adenosine‐5′‐triphosphate at Station ALOHA	10
Impact of atmospheric pressure variations on methane ebullition and lake turbidity during ice‐cover	9
Seascape topography slows predicted range shifts in fish under climate change	9
Ocean warming reduces gastropod survival despite maintenance of feeding and oxygen consumption rates	9
How many independent quantities can be extracted from ocean color?	9
Continental margin sediments underlying the NE Pacific oxygen minimum zone are a source of nitrous oxide to the water column	9
A database of ocean primary productivity from the ¹⁴C method	9
The effects of salinity and N : P on N‐rich toxins by both an N‐fixing and non‐N‐fixing cyanobacteria	8
Thermal acclimation influences the growth and toxin production of freshwater cyanobacteria	8
Predictable shifts in diversity and ecosystem function in phytoplankton communities along coastal salinity continua	8
Nutrient enrichment intensifies the effects of warming on metabolic balance of stream ecosystems	8
Seasonal shifts in diurnal variations of pCO₂ and O₂ in the lower Ganges River	8
Low temperature sensitivity of picophytoplankton P : B ratios and growth rates across a natural 10°C temperature gradient in the oligotrophic Indian Ocean	8
Native and invasive zooplankton show differing responses to decadal‐scale increases in maximum temperatures in a large temperate river	7

Is the growth of marine copepods limited by food quantity or quality?	7
Tributary chloride loading into Lake Michigan	7
Warming advances virus population dynamics in a temperate freshwater plankton community	7
Bifurcate responses of tidal range to sea‐level rise in estuaries with marsh evolution	7
An absorption‐based approach to improved estimates of phytoplankton biomass and net primary production	6
Ocean acidification alters the diversity and structure of oyster associated microbial communities	6
Documenting the impacts of increasing salinity in freshwater and coastal ecosystems: Introduction to the special issue	6
Causes and consequences of recent degradation of the Magdalena River basin, Colombia	6
Effects of seagrass overgrazing on sediment erosion and carbon sink capacity: Current understanding and future priorities	6
Remote silicate supply regulates spring phytoplankton bloom magnitude in the Gulf of Maine	6
Differential effects of press vs. pulse seawater intrusion on microbial communities of a tidal freshwater marsh	6
Deciphering the origin of riverine phytoplankton using in situ chlorophyll sensors	6
Understanding and predicting harmful algal blooms in a changing climate: A trait‐based framework	6
A case for addressing the unresolved role of permeable shelf sediments in ocean denitrification	6
Does salinization impact long‐term Daphnia assemblage dynamics? Evidence from the sediment egg bank in a small hard‐water lake	5
Estimating ocean net primary productivity from daily cycles of carbon biomass measured by profiling floats	5
On thin ice: Linking elevation and long‐term losses of lake ice cover	5
A unified dataset of colocated sewage pollution, periphyton, and benthic macroinvertebrate community and food web structure from Lake Baikal (Siberia)	5
Size‐based characterization of freshwater dissolved organic matter finds similarities within a waterbody type across different Canadian ecozones	5
Single‐species acute lethal toxicity tests are not predictive of relative population and community effects of two salinity types	5
Flood disturbance mediates the strength of stream trophic cascades caused by trout	5
Variation in seagrass meadow respiration measured by aquatic eddy covariance	5
Taking steps to address inequities in open‐access publishing through an early career publication honor	5
Clarifying water clarity: A call to use metrics best suited to corresponding research and management goals in aquatic ecosystems	5
Always ready? Primary production of Arctic phytoplankton at the end of the polar night	5
Accumulation of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter in aerobic aquatic systems	5
Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities	5
Reproduction influences seasonal eDNA variation in a temperate marine fish community	5
Sea urchin microbiomes vary with habitat and resource availability	5
Exploring the mismatch between the theory and application of photosynthetic quotients in aquatic ecosystems	5
Trace metal contents of autotrophic flagellates from contrasting open‐ocean ecosystems	5
An integrative salt marsh conceptual framework for global comparisons	4
MacroSheds: A synthesis of long‐term biogeochemical, hydroclimatic, and geospatial data from small watershed ecosystem studies	4
Impacts of residential fertilizer ordinances on Florida lacustrine water quality	4
Potential drivers and consequences of regional phosphate depletion in the western subtropical North Pacific	4
Wikipedia can help resolve information inequality in the aquatic sciences	4
Interpreting consequences of inadequate sampling of oceanic motions	4
Phosphorus limitation determines the quality of dissolved organic matter released by marine heterotrophic prokaryotes	4
Widespread synchrony in phosphorus concentrations in northern lakes linked to winter temperature and summer precipitation	4
Lake networks and connectivity metrics for the conterminous U.S. (LAGOS‐US NETWORKS v1)	4
High biomass turnover rates of endosymbiotic nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacteria in the western Bering Sea	4
Evidence of partial thermal compensation in natural phytoplankton assemblages	4
Classifying freshwater salinity regimes in central and western U.S. streams and rivers	4
Thermal performance of planktonic ciliates differs between marine and freshwaters: A case study providing guidance for climate change studies	4
A theory for the relationship between lake surface area and maximum depth	4
Hydrology, rather than wildfire burn extent, determines post‐fire organic and black carbon export from mountain rivers in central coastal California	3
Tracking freshwater browning and coastal water darkening from boreal forests to the Arctic Ocean	3
Coastal wetland adaptability to sea level rise: The neglected role of semi‐diurnal vs. diurnal tides	3
Drainage‐induced browning causes both loss and change of benthic biodiversity in headwater streams	3
Aquatic carbon fluxes in a hemiboreal catchment are predictable from landscape morphology, temperature, and runoff	3
Phytoplankton antioxidant systems and their contributions to cellular elemental stoichiometry	3
Thermal sensitivity in dual‐breathing ectotherms: Embryos and mothers determine species' vulnerability to climate change	3
Upper limits for road salt pollution in lakes	3
DOC, grazers, and resilience of phytoplankton to enrichment	3
Chlorophyll–total phosphorus relationships emerge from multiscale interactions from algae to catchments	3
Rapid phytoplankton response to wind forcing influences productivity in upwelling bays	3
Extreme value distributions describe interannual variability in the seasonal North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom	3
Groundwater‐stream connections shape the spatial pattern and rates of aquatic metabolism	3
How low can you go? Widespread challenges in measuring low stream discharge and a path forward	3
Diverse arsenic‐containing lipids in the surface ocean	3
Nickel superoxide dismutase protects nitrogen fixation in Trichodesmium	3
Why should I submit my article to a scientific‐society journal?	3
High methane emissions from an anoxic fjord driven by mixing and oxygenation	3
Physical forcing of phytoplankton dynamics in the Al‐Wajh lagoon (Red Sea)	3