Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Papers
(The median citation count of Limnology and Oceanography Letters is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau69
Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north‐temperate lakes67
Unveiling differential thermal sensitivities in marine phytoplankton within the China Seas62
Tried and true vs. shiny and new: Method switching in long‐term aquatic datasets52
Effects of freshwater salinization on a salt‐naïve planktonic eukaryote community46
Cross‐contamination risks in sediment‐based resurrection studies of phytoplankton46
Grazer‐induced changes on mechanical properties of diatoms frustule: A new proof for a watery arms race44
Always ready? Primary production of Arctic phytoplankton at the end of the polar night42
Eutrophication triggers diel and seasonal shifts of carbon dioxide and oxygen in tropical urban coastal waters42
Ice‐melt period dominates annual carbon dioxide evasion from clear‐water Arctic lakes41
A global review of pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean's elusive gelatinous “fire‐bodies”38
Validity of the Landsat surface reflectance archive for aquatic science: Implications for cloud‐based analysis38
Vertical stratification of environmental DNA in the open ocean captures ecological patterns and behavior of deep‐sea fishes35
Biogeochemical‐Argo floats show that chlorophyll increases before carbon in the high‐latitude Southern Ocean spring bloom34
Exploring the mismatch between the theory and application of photosynthetic quotients in aquatic ecosystems33
Blooms also like it cold32
Recent warming of the Kuroshio Current has promoted offshore sediment transport in the Yellow Sea30
Key bacterial groups maintain stream multifunctionality in response to episodic drying29
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
Remote silicate supply regulates spring phytoplankton bloom magnitude in the Gulf of Maine28
Taking steps to address inequities in open‐access publishing through an early career publication honor26
Seasonal patterns of microbial diversity across the world oceans26
Biologically driven isotope fractionation in ultrastructurally different shell portions of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera): Implications for stream water δ18O 25
Arctic fishes reveal patterns in radiocarbon age across habitats and with recent climate change24
Taxonomic identity, biodiversity, and antecedent disturbances shape the dimensional stability of stream invertebrates23
The role of surface water waves on cyanobacterial blooms in lakes22
Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie21
Show and tell: approaches for effective figures21
Brachiopods as archives of intrannual, annual, and interannual environmental variations20
Energy inputs imprint seasonality and fractal structure on river metabolic regimes20
Shedding light on cobalamin photodegradation in the ocean19
Widespread synchrony in phosphorus concentrations in northern lakes linked to winter temperature and summer precipitation19
Enhanced stream greenhouse gas emissions at night and during flood events19
Oyster shells as archives of present and past environmental variability and life history traits: A multi‐disciplinary review of sclerochronology methods and applications18
Calcium carbonate and phosphorus interactions in inland waters18
Changes in phytoplankton and biomineral content of particles during episodic fluxes to abyssal depth18
Local water year values for the conterminous United States18
LAGOS‐US RESERVOIR: A database classifying conterminous U.S. lakes 4 ha and larger as natural lakes or reservoir lakes17
Extreme plasticity in the photosystem composition of a low‐light Prochlorococcus ecotype in response to iron and light17
A dataset of individual wet weights of benthic macroinvertebrates16
Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers16
Rapid phytoplankton response to wind forcing influences productivity in upwelling bays16
Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding and future perspectives16
Impacts of riverine heatwaves on rates of ecosystem metabolism in the United States15
Harnessing nature's buffer: Assessing the role of bivalve shells in coastal alkalinity regeneration14
Age‐based δ15N and δ13C values of otolith organic matter reveal trophic ecology in marine fishes14
Diverse arsenic‐containing lipids in the surface ocean14
Confirming existing parameterizations for methane gas transfer velocity in lakes based on direct and high‐frequent methods14
Combining genetic and isotope frameworks improves reconstruction of fish provenance across riverscapes14
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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
Predictable shifts in diversity and ecosystem function in phytoplankton communities along coastal salinity continua13
Qualitative and quantitative changes in phenology of chlorophyll a concentrations during the transition from eutrophy to oligotrophy13
DOC, grazers, and resilience of phytoplankton to enrichment13
Boat wakes enhance oyster reef mortality in a short‐fetch estuary12
Does salinization impact long‐term Daphnia assemblage dynamics? Evidence from the sediment egg bank in a small hard‐water lake12
Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning12
Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities12
Resolving the environmental factors that determine pond thermal refuge quality12
Decadal warming has intensified Microcystis‐dominated cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie12
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Nutrient co‐limitation in the subtropical Northwest Pacific12
A rationale for higher ratios of CH4 to CO2 production in warmer anoxic freshwater sediments and soils12
Reconstructing life‐time reproductive histories using steroid hormones in cephalopod beaks12
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Direct contribution of invertebrate holobionts to methane release from coastal sediments11
Thermal sensitivity in dual‐breathing ectotherms: Embryos and mothers determine species' vulnerability to climate change11
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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 Pacific11
Bifurcate responses of tidal range to sea‐level rise in estuaries with marsh evolution11
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Contrasting impacts of warming and browning on periphyton11
Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO2 equilibration for marine CO2 removal10
Dissolved organic matter offsets the detrimental effects of climate change in the nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera10
Lake networks and connectivity metrics for the conterminous U.S. (LAGOS‐US NETWORKS v1)10
Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on inland urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export10
A model of near‐sea ice phytoplankton blooms10
Effects of seagrass overgrazing on sediment erosion and carbon sink capacity: Current understanding and future priorities10
Climate‐influenced phenology of larval fish transport in a large lake9
Tributary chloride loading into Lake Michigan9
Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome9
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Polyphosphate phosphorus in the Great Lakes9
Variable phenology but consistent loss of ice cover on 1213 Minnesota lakes9
Extreme value distributions describe interannual variability in the seasonal North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom9
Tagging of water masses with covariance of trace metals and prokaryotic taxa in the Southern Ocean9
Concurrent global change and marine heatwaves disturb phototrophic more than heterotrophic protist diversity9
Earlier ice melt increases hypolimnetic oxygen despite regional warming in small Arctic lakes9
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A novel mechanism explaining the temperature dependence of marine unicellular nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacteria8
Short wave attenuation by a kelp forest canopy8
Unexpected mismatches in population structure among marine mussel life‐history stages reveal the true scales of planktonic larval dispersal8
A case for addressing the unresolved role of permeable shelf sediments in ocean denitrification8
Spatiotemporal assessment of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the Bermejo River Basin in the Ecuadorian Amazonia8
Impacts of residential fertilizer ordinances on Florida lacustrine water quality8
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Drainage‐induced browning causes both loss and change of benthic biodiversity in headwater streams8
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Daily surface temperatures for 185,549 lakes in the conterminous United States estimated using deep learning (1980–2020)7
MacroSheds: A synthesis of long‐term biogeochemical, hydroclimatic, and geospatial data from small watershed ecosystem studies7
Global Ocean dimethylsulfide photolysis rates quantified with a spectrally and vertically resolved model7
High rates of carbon burial linked to autochthonous production in artificial ponds7
Groundwater‐stream connections shape the spatial pattern and rates of aquatic metabolism7
Assessing N2 fixation flux and its controlling factors in the (sub)tropical western North Pacific through high‐resolution observations7
Estimating ocean net primary productivity from daily cycles of carbon biomass measured by profiling floats7
Correction to “Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean”7
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
Microbial methane oxidation efficiency and robustness during lake overturn7
Tracking freshwater browning and coastal water darkening from boreal forests to the Arctic Ocean7
Phytoplankton as indicators of global warming?7
Establishing fluvial silicon regimes and their stability across the Northern Hemisphere7
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Deep‐learning‐powered data analysis in plankton ecology6
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Alkalinity contributes at least a third of annual gross primary production in a deep stratified hardwater lake6
Phytoplankton antioxidant systems and their contributions to cellular elemental stoichiometry6
Acoustic twilight: A year‐long seafloor monitoring unveils phenological patterns in the abyssal soundscape6
Knowing your limits: Patterns and drivers of nutrient limitation and nutrient–chlorophyll relationships in US lakes6
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
Over half a century record of limnology data from Lake Powell, desert southwest United States: From reservoir filling to present day (1964–2021)6
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Idiosyncratic phenology of greenhouse gas emissions in a Mediterranean reservoir6
Understanding and predicting harmful algal blooms in a changing climate: A trait‐based framework6
Potential drivers and consequences of regional phosphate depletion in the western subtropical North Pacific5
A unified dataset of colocated sewage pollution, periphyton, and benthic macroinvertebrate community and food web structure from Lake Baikal (Siberia)5
Novel sequential modeling framework improves phytoplankton biomass predictions in response to multiple environmental stressors5
Worms and submersed macrophytes reduce methane release and increase nutrient removal in organic sediments5
Pore‐water exchange flushes blue carbon from intertidal saltmarsh sediments into the sea5
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Integrating siphonophores into marine food‐web ecology5
Coastal acidification alters estuarine sediment nitrous oxide and methane fluxes5
Spatially varying plankton synchrony patterns at seasonal and interannual scales in a well‐connected shelf sea5
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Unraveling Lake Geneva's hypoxia crisis in the Anthropocene5
Sustained upward groundwater discharge through salt marsh tidal creeks5
Evidence of partial thermal compensation in natural phytoplankton assemblages5
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
Risk to native marine macroalgae from land‐use and climate change‐related modifications to groundwater discharge in Hawaiʻi5
Particulate organic carbon sedimentation triggers lagged methane emissions in a eutrophic reservoir5
Flow intermittence alters carbon processing in rivers through chemical diversification of leaf litter5
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
Aquatic heatwaves increase surface chlorophyll concentrations in experimental and reference lakes4
Forecasting climate and human alterations to coastal and estuarine dissolved organic matter4
Snow removal cools a small dystrophic lake4
Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community‐level salt tolerance4
Adaptive traits of Planctomycetota bacteria to thrive in macroalgal habitats and establish mutually beneficial relationship with macroalgae4
Relative importance of bacterivorous mixotrophs in an estuary‐coast environment4
Characterization of a Southern Ocean deep chlorophyll maximum: Response of phytoplankton to light, iron, and manganese enrichment4
Disaster avoided: current state of the Baltic Sea without human intervention to reduce nutrient loads4
Multiple climatic drivers increase pace and consequences of ecosystem change in the Arctic Coastal Ocean4
Some considerations of measuring temperature sensitivity in thermal ecology4
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Coastal wetland adaptability to sea level rise: The neglected role of semi‐diurnal vs. diurnal tides4
The elephant in the conference room: reducing the carbon footprint of aquatic science meetings4
Mesocosm experiments validate induction of Daphnia vertical migration by the fish‐derived kairomone 5α‐cyprinol sulfate4
Establishing a long‐term citizen science project? Lessons learned from the Community Lake Ice Collaboration spanning over 30 yr and 1000 lakes4
Grazer‐induced aggregation in diatoms4
Catastrophic bleaching in protected reefs of the Southern Great Barrier Reef4
A stream‐to‐sea experiment reveals inhibitory effects of freshwater residency on organic‐matter decomposition in the sea4
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Low‐molecular‐weight reduced sulfur substances: A major component of nonvolatile dissolved organic sulfur in the Pacific Ocean4
Interpreting consequences of inadequate sampling of oceanic motions4
Single‐species acute lethal toxicity tests are not predictive of relative population and community effects of two salinity types4
The deep ocean as a major sink for terrestrial organic carbon4
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