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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Sequestration by the biological carbon pump: Do we really know what we are talking about?86
Grazer‐induced changes on mechanical properties of diatoms frustule: A new proof for a watery arms race72
A global review of pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean's elusive gelatinous “fire‐bodies”58
Eutrophication triggers diel and seasonal shifts of carbon dioxide and oxygen in tropical urban coastal waters53
Ice‐melt period dominates annual carbon dioxide evasion from clear‐water Arctic lakes50
Exploring the mismatch between the theory and application of photosynthetic quotients in aquatic ecosystems49
Validity of the Landsat surface reflectance archive for aquatic science: Implications for cloud‐based analysis43
Cross‐contamination risks in sediment‐based resurrection studies of phytoplankton40
Blooms also like it cold39
Effects of freshwater salinization on a salt‐naïve planktonic eukaryote community37
Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau36
Always ready? Primary production of Arctic phytoplankton at the end of the polar night33
Unveiling differential thermal sensitivities in marine phytoplankton within the China Seas32
Tried and true vs. shiny and new: Method switching in long‐term aquatic datasets30
Biogeochemical‐Argo floats show that chlorophyll increases before carbon in the high‐latitude Southern Ocean spring bloom29
Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north‐temperate lakes29
Increased anoxia following species invasion of a eutrophic lake29
Clarifying water clarity: A call to use metrics best suited to corresponding research and management goals in aquatic ecosystems28
An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem26
Recent warming of the Kuroshio Current has promoted offshore sediment transport in the Yellow Sea23
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Key bacterial groups maintain stream multifunctionality in response to episodic drying22
Remote silicate supply regulates spring phytoplankton bloom magnitude in the Gulf of Maine22
Seasonal patterns of microbial diversity across the world oceans21
Coupling air–water CO 2 flux and primary production dynamics under hydro21
Taking steps to address inequities in open‐access publishing through an early career publication honor20
Calcium carbonate and phosphorus interactions in inland waters19
Taxonomic identity, biodiversity, and antecedent disturbances shape the dimensional stability of stream invertebrates19
Local water year values for the conterminous United States19
Shedding light on cobalamin photodegradation in the ocean19
Biologically driven isotope fractionation in ultrastructurally different shell portions of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera): Implications for stream water δ18O 19
Energy inputs imprint seasonality and fractal structure on river metabolic regimes19
Arctic fishes reveal patterns in radiocarbon age across habitats and with recent climate change19
Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie18
The cycling of glycine betaine and homarine in marine microbial communities: Quantitative flux measurements and the role of competitive uptake inhibition18
The role of surface water waves on cyanobacterial blooms in lakes18
Show and tell: approaches for effective figures18
Enhanced stream greenhouse gas emissions at night and during flood events18
Widespread synchrony in phosphorus concentrations in northern lakes linked to winter temperature and summer precipitation17
Extreme plasticity in the photosystem composition of a low‐light Prochlorococcus ecotype in response to iron and light17
Brachiopods as archives of intrannual, annual, and interannual environmental variations17
Changes in phytoplankton and biomineral content of particles during episodic fluxes to abyssal depth17
A dataset of individual wet weights of benthic macroinvertebrates16
LAGOS‐US RESERVOIR: A database classifying conterminous U.S. lakes 4 ha and larger as natural lakes or reservoir lakes16
Confirming existing parameterizations for methane gas transfer velocity in lakes based on direct and high‐frequent methods15
Salinity is diagnostic of maximum potential chlorophyll and phytoplankton community structure in an Eastern Boundary Upwelling System15
Harnessing nature's buffer: Assessing the role of bivalve shells in coastal alkalinity regeneration15
Impacts of riverine heatwaves on rates of ecosystem metabolism in the United States15
Rapid phytoplankton response to wind forcing influences productivity in upwelling bays14
Combining genetic and isotope frameworks improves reconstruction of fish provenance across riverscapes14
Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding and future perspectives14
Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers14
Oyster shells as archives of present and past environmental variability and life history traits: A multi‐disciplinary review of sclerochronology methods and applications14
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 climate13
DOC, grazers, and resilience of phytoplankton to enrichment13
Predictable shifts in diversity and ecosystem function in phytoplankton communities along coastal salinity continua13
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Age‐based δ15N and δ13C values of otolith organic matter reveal trophic ecology in marine fishes13
Contrasting greenhouse gas dynamics along a coastal‐to‐oligotrophic ocean continuum13
Qualitative and quantitative changes in phenology of chlorophyll a concentrations during the transition from eutrophy to oligotrophy13
Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities12
Efficient cobalamin uptake and cycling contribute to the lack of cobalamins in the surface cobalt‐binding ligand pool in the North Pacific12
A rationale for higher ratios of CH4 to CO2 production in warmer anoxic freshwater sediments and soils12
Resolving the environmental factors that determine pond thermal refuge quality12
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Boat wakes enhance oyster reef mortality in a short‐fetch estuary12
Reconstructing life‐time reproductive histories using steroid hormones in cephalopod beaks12
Decadal warming has intensified Microcystis‐dominated cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie11
Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning11
Direct contribution of invertebrate holobionts to methane release from coastal sediments11
Century‐scale resilience of stored seagrass blue carbon11
Thermal sensitivity in dual‐breathing ectotherms: Embryos and mothers determine species' vulnerability to climate change11
Emerging patterns of CO2 : O2 dynamics in rivers and their link to ecosystem carbon processing11
A model of near‐sea ice phytoplankton blooms10
Contrasting impacts of warming and browning on periphyton10
Earlier ice melt increases hypolimnetic oxygen despite regional warming in small Arctic lakes10
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Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO2 equilibration for marine CO2 removal10
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Bifurcate responses of tidal range to sea‐level rise in estuaries with marsh evolution10
Tributary chloride loading into Lake Michigan10
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Dissolved organic matter offsets the detrimental effects of climate change in the nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera10
Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on inland urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export10
Tagging of water masses with covariance of trace metals and prokaryotic taxa in the Southern Ocean9
Extreme value distributions describe interannual variability in the seasonal North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom9
Polyphosphate phosphorus in the Great Lakes9
Variable phenology but consistent loss of ice cover on 1213 Minnesota lakes9
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Climate‐influenced phenology of larval fish transport in a large lake9
Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome9
Concurrent global change and marine heatwaves disturb phototrophic more than heterotrophic protist diversity9
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
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Drainage‐induced browning causes both loss and change of benthic biodiversity in headwater streams8
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Spatiotemporal assessment of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the Bermejo River Basin in the Ecuadorian Amazonia8
Light and nutrients modulate the temperature‐sensitivity of growth in phytoplankton7
Hydrology, rather than wildfire burn extent, determines post‐fire organic and black carbon export from mountain rivers in central coastal California7
Correction to “Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean”7
Daily surface temperatures for 185,549 lakes in the conterminous United States estimated using deep learning (1980–2020)7
Global Ocean dimethylsulfide photolysis rates quantified with a spectrally and vertically resolved model7
Short wave attenuation by a kelp forest canopy7
Phytoplankton as indicators of global warming?7
High rates of carbon burial linked to autochthonous production in artificial ponds7
Tracking freshwater browning and coastal water darkening from boreal forests to the Arctic Ocean7
MacroSheds: A synthesis of long‐term biogeochemical, hydroclimatic, and geospatial data from small watershed ecosystem studies7
Assessing N2 fixation flux and its controlling factors in the (sub)tropical western North Pacific through high‐resolution observations7
Establishing fluvial silicon regimes and their stability across the Northern Hemisphere7
Acoustic twilight: A year‐long seafloor monitoring unveils phenological patterns in the abyssal soundscape7
A novel mechanism explaining the temperature dependence of marine unicellular nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacteria7
Estimating ocean net primary productivity from daily cycles of carbon biomass measured by profiling floats7
Significant benthic fluxes of bioavailable dissolved amino acids to the ocean: Results from the East/Japan Sea6
Phytoplankton antioxidant systems and their contributions to cellular elemental stoichiometry6
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Understanding and predicting harmful algal blooms in a changing climate: A trait‐based framework6
Nonlinear water clarity trends and impacts on littoral area in Minnesota lakes6
Idiosyncratic phenology of greenhouse gas emissions in a Mediterranean reservoir6
Knowing your limits: Patterns and drivers of nutrient limitation and nutrient–chlorophyll relationships in US lakes6
Unprecedented warming and salinization observed in the deep Adriatic6
Alkalinity contributes at least a third of annual gross primary production in a deep stratified hardwater lake6
Groundwater‐stream connections shape the spatial pattern and rates of aquatic metabolism6
Deep‐learning‐powered data analysis in plankton ecology6
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Potential drivers and consequences of regional phosphate depletion in the western subtropical North Pacific5
Particulate organic carbon sedimentation triggers lagged methane emissions in a eutrophic reservoir5
Unraveling Lake Geneva's hypoxia crisis in the Anthropocene5
Integrating siphonophores into marine food‐web ecology5
Over half a century record of limnology data from Lake Powell, desert southwest United States: From reservoir filling to present day (1964–2021)5
Novel sequential modeling framework improves phytoplankton biomass predictions in response to multiple environmental stressors5
Risk to native marine macroalgae from land‐use and climate change‐related modifications to groundwater discharge in Hawaiʻi5
The synthesis collection: Fifty‐one essential articles for today's aquatic scientist5
Pore‐water exchange flushes blue carbon from intertidal saltmarsh sediments into the sea5
Drivers of dissolved organic matter processing in subterranean estuaries5
Leaf litter breakdown phenology in headwater stream networks is modulated by groundwater thermal regimes and litter type5
Coastal acidification alters estuarine sediment nitrous oxide and methane fluxes5
Sustained upward groundwater discharge through salt marsh tidal creeks5
Phosphorus limitation determines the quality of dissolved organic matter released by marine heterotrophic prokaryotes5
Spatially varying plankton synchrony patterns at seasonal and interannual scales in a well‐connected shelf sea5
Adaptive traits of Planctomycetota bacteria to thrive in macroalgal habitats and establish mutually beneficial relationship with macroalgae4
Evidence of partial thermal compensation in natural phytoplankton assemblages4
Interpreting consequences of inadequate sampling of oceanic motions4
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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
Disaster avoided: current state of the Baltic Sea without human intervention to reduce nutrient loads4
Relative importance of bacterivorous mixotrophs in an estuary‐coast environment4
Coastal wetland adaptability to sea level rise: The neglected role of semi‐diurnal vs. diurnal tides4
Sink or break: Oil increases resistance of phytoplankton aggregates to fragmentation4
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Aquatic heatwaves increase surface chlorophyll concentrations in experimental and reference lakes4
Enhanced total carbon in runoff following rewetting of drained boreal and hemi‐boreal wetlands4
Mesocosm experiments validate induction of Daphnia vertical migration by the fish‐derived kairomone 5α‐cyprinol sulfate4
Snow removal cools a small dystrophic lake4
Multiple climatic drivers increase pace and consequences of ecosystem change in the Arctic Coastal Ocean4
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Glacial meltwater drives high CH4 supersaturation in Maxwell Bay, King George Island (Southern Ocean)4
Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community‐level salt tolerance4
Low‐molecular‐weight reduced sulfur substances: A major component of nonvolatile dissolved organic sulfur in the Pacific Ocean4
A stream‐to‐sea experiment reveals inhibitory effects of freshwater residency on organic‐matter decomposition in the sea4
Road salt pollution shifts urban stormwater ponds toward cyanobacterial dominance4
Forecasting climate and human alterations to coastal and estuarine dissolved organic matter4
Some considerations of measuring temperature sensitivity in thermal ecology4
Characterization of a Southern Ocean deep chlorophyll maximum: Response of phytoplankton to light, iron, and manganese enrichment3
A mangrove nitrous oxide sink attenuates methane climate impacts3
A new metric for sunlight exposure in rivers, lakes, and oceans3
High methane emissions from an anoxic fjord driven by mixing and oxygenation3
Grazer‐induced aggregation in diatoms3
Establishing a long‐term citizen science project? Lessons learned from the Community Lake Ice Collaboration spanning over 30 yr and 1000 lakes3
Aquatic carbon fluxes in a hemiboreal catchment are predictable from landscape morphology, temperature, and runoff3
Rethinking plastic as a habitat modifier and a transport vector for organisms in aquatic environments3
Recovery of macrobenthic communities in tidal flats following the Great East Japan Earthquake3
Estimation of lifelong metabolic rates in marine fish: A combination of oxygen consumption measurements and δ13C metabolic proxy derived from vertebral structural carbonates3
Winter inverse lake stratification under historic and future climate change3
pCO2 variation in ice‐covered regions of the Arctic Ocean from the summer 2022 observation3
Diel variation in CO2 flux is substantial in many lakes3
The deep ocean as a major sink for terrestrial organic carbon3
Ba/Ca in foraminifera shells as a proxy of submarine groundwater discharge3
Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean3
Mineral surface area of sinking particles in the deep ocean interior: Preliminary implications3
Phytoplankton iron limitation in the Atlantic Southern Ocean driven by seasonal mixed‐layer dynamics3
Artificial island construction exacerbates storm‐induced loss of buried estuarine carbon3
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