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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Tried and true vs. shiny and new: Method switching in long‐term aquatic datasets111
Aquatic reflectance derived from Sentinel‐2 Multispectral Imager data for inland waters in the conterminous United States78
Nitric oxide supersaturation in the surface waters of the oligotrophic Atlantic Ocean72
Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau56
Ice‐melt period dominates annual carbon dioxide evasion from clear‐water Arctic lakes51
A global review of pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean's elusive gelatinous “fire‐bodies”47
Unveiling differential thermal sensitivities in marine phytoplankton within the China Seas45
Biogeochemical‐Argo floats show that chlorophyll increases before carbon in the high‐latitude Southern Ocean spring bloom43
Cross‐contamination risks in sediment‐based resurrection studies of phytoplankton42
Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north‐temperate lakes33
Eutrophication triggers diel and seasonal shifts of carbon dioxide and oxygen in tropical urban coastal waters33
Blooms also like it cold30
Grazer‐induced changes on mechanical properties of diatoms frustule: A new proof for a watery arms race29
Exploring the mismatch between the theory and application of photosynthetic quotients in aquatic ecosystems28
Validity of the Landsat surface reflectance archive for aquatic science: Implications for cloud‐based analysis28
Sequestration by the biological carbon pump: Do we really know what we are talking about?27
Coupling air–water CO 2 flux and primary production dynamics under hydro27
Increased anoxia following species invasion of a eutrophic lake25
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Seasonal patterns of microbial diversity across the world oceans24
Key bacterial groups maintain stream multifunctionality in response to episodic drying23
Field measurements and model predictions of turbulent kinetic energy in canopies of sparse vegetation under tidal flows22
Recent warming of the Kuroshio Current has promoted offshore sediment transport in the Yellow Sea22
Clarifying water clarity: A call to use metrics best suited to corresponding research and management goals in aquatic ecosystems22
An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem21
Divergent responses of the diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii to ocean acidification during light and dark periods21
Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie20
Arctic fishes reveal patterns in radiocarbon age across habitats and with recent climate change20
Widespread decline in the abundance of sea cucumber assemblages in atolls of the protected Rowley Shoals, northwestern Australia20
Biologically driven isotope fractionation in ultrastructurally different shell portions of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera): Implications for stream water δ18O 19
Show and tell: approaches for effective figures19
Local water year values for the conterminous United States19
Taxonomic identity, biodiversity, and antecedent disturbances shape the dimensional stability of stream invertebrates19
Calcium carbonate and phosphorus interactions in inland waters18
Taking steps to address inequities in open‐access publishing through an early career publication honor18
Widespread synchrony in phosphorus concentrations in northern lakes linked to winter temperature and summer precipitation18
Brachiopods as archives of intrannual, annual, and interannual environmental variations18
The role of surface water waves on cyanobacterial blooms in lakes18
Energy inputs imprint seasonality and fractal structure on river metabolic regimes17
Enhanced stream greenhouse gas emissions at night and during flood events17
Shedding light on cobalamin photodegradation in the ocean17
The cycling of glycine betaine and homarine in marine microbial communities: Quantitative flux measurements and the role of competitive uptake inhibition16
Impacts of riverine heatwaves on rates of ecosystem metabolism in the United States16
Thermal buffering by tidally generated internal bores on the shallows of a remote coral atoll16
Salinity is diagnostic of maximum potential chlorophyll and phytoplankton community structure in an Eastern Boundary Upwelling System16
Oyster shells as archives of present and past environmental variability and life history traits: A multi‐disciplinary review of sclerochronology methods and applications16
Confirming existing parameterizations for methane gas transfer velocity in lakes based on direct and high‐frequent methods16
LAGOS‐US RESERVOIR: A database classifying conterminous U.S. lakes 4 ha and larger as natural lakes or reservoir lakes16
Uptake of Prochlorococcus ‐derived metabolites by Alteromonas macleodii MIT1002 15
Rapid phytoplankton response to wind forcing influences productivity in upwelling bays15
Harnessing nature's buffer: Assessing the role of bivalve shells in coastal alkalinity regeneration15
Quantifying methane emissions from Laurentian Great Lakes estuaries using in situ measurements, remote sensing, and machine learning15
Extreme plasticity in the photosystem composition of a low‐light Prochlorococcus ecotype in response to iron and light15
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A dataset of individual wet weights of benthic macroinvertebrates14
Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding and future perspectives14
Anthropogenic nutrient inputs affect productivity–biodiversity relationships in marine tintinnid assemblages13
Phosphate limitation threshold for phosphonate utilization and methane production by carbon–phosphorus lyase in Stutzerimonas frequens13
Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers13
A matter of salt: Global assessment of the effect of salt ionic composition as a driver of aquatic bacterial diversity13
Oceanographic heterogeneity facilitates gelatinous zooplankton niche space and diversity13
Contrasting greenhouse gas dynamics along a coastal‐to‐oligotrophic ocean continuum13
Age‐based δ15N and δ13C values of otolith organic matter reveal trophic ecology in marine fishes13
Combining genetic and isotope frameworks improves reconstruction of fish provenance across riverscapes12
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DOC, grazers, and resilience of phytoplankton to enrichment12
Boat wakes enhance oyster reef mortality in a short‐fetch estuary12
Eutrophication and ice phenology influence methane storage in north temperate lakes12
Sulfate enrichment in estuaries of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: The potential effect of sulfide oxidation on carbonate chemistry under a changing climate12
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A rationale for higher ratios of CH4 to CO2 production in warmer anoxic freshwater sediments and soils11
Resolving the environmental factors that determine pond thermal refuge quality11
Ponds are neither dimictic nor polymictic: A variable transition season between stratified summers and mixed autumns11
Tropical river discharge dominates riverine carbon export to Australia's coastal waters11
Qualitative and quantitative changes in phenology of chlorophyll a concentrations during the transition from eutrophy to oligotrophy11
Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities11
A new approach to predicting and understanding cyanobacteria bloom toxicity11
Reconstructing life‐time reproductive histories using steroid hormones in cephalopod beaks10
Century‐scale resilience of stored seagrass blue carbon10
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Contrasting impacts of warming and browning on periphyton10
Emerging patterns of CO 2  :  10
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Efficient cobalamin uptake and cycling contribute to the lack of cobalamins in the surface cobalt‐binding ligand pool in the North Pacific10
Decadal warming has intensified Microcystis ‐dominated cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie10
Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning10
Direct contribution of invertebrate holobionts to methane release from coastal sediments10
Imprint of Indian Ocean Dipole on nitrous oxide dynamics9
Microbial regulation of global macroalgal blooms (green tides): From holobiont interactions to bloom dynamics and biogeochemistry9
Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO2 equilibration for marine CO2 removal9
Variable phenology but consistent loss of ice cover on 1213 Minnesota lakes9
Earlier ice melt increases hypolimnetic oxygen despite regional warming in small Arctic lakes9
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Dissolved organic matter offsets the detrimental effects of climate change in the nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera9
A model of near‐sea ice phytoplankton blooms9
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Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on inland urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export9
Polyphosphate phosphorus in the Great Lakes8
Impacts of residential fertilizer ordinances on Florida lacustrine water quality8
Tagging of water masses with covariance of trace metals and prokaryotic taxa in the Southern Ocean8
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Drainage‐induced browning causes both loss and change of benthic biodiversity in headwater streams8
Climate‐influenced phenology of larval fish transport in a large lake8
Concurrent global change and marine heatwaves disturb phototrophic more than heterotrophic protist diversity8
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Whatever it takes—Shaping the L&O Letters Early Career Publication Honor to deliver true benefit7
Degassing fluxes in a temperate hydropower reservoir predictable by deep‐water dissolved oxygen but highly sensitive to discharge variability7
A novel mechanism explaining the temperature dependence of marine unicellular nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacteria7
Parasite infection shapes the pathobiome and behavior of marine zooplankton7
Tracking freshwater browning and coastal water darkening from boreal forests to the Arctic Ocean7
Spatiotemporal assessment of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the Bermejo River Basin in the Ecuadorian Amazonia7
Primary productivity coupled to oxic methane production in coastal waters of southern China7
Unexpected mismatches in population structure among marine mussel life‐history stages reveal the true scales of planktonic larval dispersal7
Estimating ocean net primary productivity from daily cycles of carbon biomass measured by profiling floats7
Short wave attenuation by a kelp forest canopy7
Assessing N2 fixation flux and its controlling factors in the (sub)tropical western North Pacific through high‐resolution observations7
Unprecedented warming and salinization observed in the deep Adriatic6
Correction to “Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean”6
Light and nutrients modulate the temperature‐sensitivity of growth in phytoplankton6
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Acoustic twilight: A year‐long seafloor monitoring unveils phenological patterns in the abyssal soundscape6
Idiosyncratic phenology of greenhouse gas emissions in a Mediterranean reservoir6
Temporal dynamics of mesopelagic fishes within a mesoscale eddy: A Lagrangian perspective6
Global Ocean dimethylsulfide photolysis rates quantified with a spectrally and vertically resolved model6
Hydrology, rather than wildfire burn extent, determines post‐fire organic and black carbon export from mountain rivers in central coastal California6
Phytoplankton as indicators of global warming?6
Alkalinity contributes at least a third of annual gross primary production in a deep stratified hardwater lake6
Understanding and predicting harmful algal blooms in a changing climate: A trait‐based framework6
High rates of carbon burial linked to autochthonous production in artificial ponds6
Establishing fluvial silicon regimes and their stability across the Northern Hemisphere6
MacroSheds: A synthesis of long‐term biogeochemical, hydroclimatic, and geospatial data from small watershed ecosystem studies6
Significant benthic fluxes of bioavailable dissolved amino acids to the ocean: Results from the East/Japan Sea6
Nonlinear water clarity trends and impacts on littoral area in Minnesota lakes6
Groundwater‐stream connections shape the spatial pattern and rates of aquatic metabolism5
Drivers of dissolved organic matter processing in subterranean estuaries5
Adaptive traits of Planctomycetota bacteria to thrive in macroalgal habitats and establish mutually beneficial relationship with macroalgae5
Sink or break: Oil increases resistance of phytoplankton aggregates to fragmentation5
Expanding the horizons of sclerochronology: New perspectives for life history and environmental monitoring5
Unraveling Lake Geneva's hypoxia crisis in the Anthropocene5
Current methods overestimate coastal blue carbon potential5
Coastal acidification alters estuarine sediment nitrous oxide and methane fluxes5
Deep‐learning‐powered data analysis in plankton ecology5
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Knowing your limits: Patterns and drivers of nutrient limitation and nutrient–chlorophyll relationships in US lakes5
Sustained upward groundwater discharge through salt marsh tidal creeks5
Glacial meltwater drives high CH 4 supersaturation in Maxwell Bay, King 5
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Particulate organic carbon sedimentation triggers lagged methane emissions in a eutrophic reservoir5
The synthesis collection: Fifty‐one essential articles for today's aquatic scientist5
Novel sequential modeling framework improves phytoplankton biomass predictions in response to multiple environmental stressors5
Spatially varying plankton synchrony patterns at seasonal and interannual scales in a well‐connected shelf sea5
Over half a century record of limnology data from Lake Powell, desert southwest United States: From reservoir filling to present day (1964–2021)5
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Potential drivers and consequences of regional phosphate depletion in the western subtropical North Pacific5
Intermediate Western Boundary Current speeds from the southeastern Brazilian margin: A 16,000‐year record from grain‐size evidence5
Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community‐level salt tolerance5
Low‐molecular‐weight reduced sulfur substances: A major component of nonvolatile dissolved organic sulfur in the Pacific Ocean5
Phosphorus limitation determines the quality of dissolved organic matter released by marine heterotrophic prokaryotes5
Leaf litter breakdown phenology in headwater stream networks is modulated by groundwater thermal regimes and litter type5
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Anthropogenic interference and climatic change control long‐term dissolved silicate variation in the Yellow River5
Snow removal cools a small dystrophic lake4
Multiple climatic drivers increase pace and consequences of ecosystem change in the Arctic Coastal Ocean4
Relative importance of bacterivorous mixotrophs in an estuary‐coast environment4
The elephant in the conference room: reducing the carbon footprint of aquatic science meetings4
Enhanced total carbon in runoff following rewetting of drained boreal and hemi‐boreal wetlands4
Zooplankton diel vertical migration enhances carbon export via distinct mechanisms in a warming North Pacific4
Some considerations of measuring temperature sensitivity in thermal ecology4
Typhoon‐induced surface chlorophyll a decline on the shelf of the South China Sea4
Coastal wetland adaptability to sea level rise: The neglected role of semi‐diurnal vs. diurnal tides4
Catastrophic bleaching in protected reefs of the Southern Great Barrier Reef4
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Mesocosm experiments validate induction of Daphnia vertical migration by the fish‐derived kairomone 5α‐cyprinol sulfate4
Volume scattering function measured in the oceans and lakes (2009–2024)4
Forecasting climate and human alterations to coastal and estuarine dissolved organic matter4
Aquatic heatwaves increase surface chlorophyll concentrations in experimental and reference lakes4
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Phytoplankton iron limitation in the Atlantic Southern Ocean driven by seasonal mixed‐layer dynamics3
Estimation of lifelong metabolic rates in marine fish: A combination of oxygen consumption measurements and δ13C metabolic proxy derived from vertebral structural carbonates3
Aquatic carbon fluxes in a hemiboreal catchment are predictable from landscape morphology, temperature, and runoff3
Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean3
Grazer‐induced aggregation in diatoms3
Rethinking plastic as a habitat modifier and a transport vector for organisms in aquatic environments3
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Wildfire smoke reduces water temperature and metabolic rates in lakes and ponds across a small headwater watershed3
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Ba/Ca in foraminifera shells as a proxy of submarine groundwater discharge3
Artificial island construction exacerbates storm‐induced loss of buried estuarine carbon3
The role of edible habitat complexity in food webs3
Establishing a long‐term citizen science project? Lessons learned from the Community Lake Ice Collaboration spanning over 30 yr and 1000 lakes3
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
Characterization of a Southern Ocean deep chlorophyll maximum: Response of phytoplankton to light, iron, and manganese enrichment3
p CO 2 variation in ice‐covered regions of the Arctic Ocean fro3
Altered greenhouse gas emissions in shallow lakes invaded by common carp ( Cyprinus carpio )3
A new metric for sunlight exposure in rivers, lakes, and oceans3
Diel variation in CO 2 flux is substantial in many lakes3
Correction to “Seasonal Patterns of Microbial Diversity Across the World Oceans”3
The deep ocean as a major sink for terrestrial organic carbon3
Climate change and El Niño Southern Oscillation influence on mixing regime and water quality in a deep tropical mountain lake3
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