OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aquatic Botany is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Macrophyte species uniqueness is driven by habitat integrity, sediment structure, and spatial components in streams around the Amazon National Park	74
Rapid loss of temperate kelp forests revealed by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photography and underwater observations	67
High methane emissions as trade-off for phosphorus removal in surface flow treatment wetlands	67
Restoring charophytes is still a challenge: A call for developing successful methods	34
Is the protection of habitat directive Eleocharis carniolica in its northern limits really needed? – A life strategy based investigation	31
Seed bank and germination ecology of sub-tropical Vallisneria americana	30
Plastome evolution and phylogenomic insights into the evolution of the African submerged endemic genus Lagarosiphon (Hydrocharitaceae)	24
No endemic Isoëtes (Isoëtaceae) species in the North Asian Pacific evidenced by genetic and morphological analysis	24
Drainage Influences Coastal Salt Marsh Productivity and Soil Biogeochemistry	24
Editorial Board	21
Submerged macrophyte root oxygen release reduces sediment oxygen demand: A positive feedback loop in shallow lakes	18
Seaweed-associated epiphytic bacteria: Diversity, ecological and economic implications	18
Halophila baillonii's hidden distribution range: Rediscovery and conservation of a rare seagrass in the Tropical Atlantic	17
Variation of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope composition in leaves and roots of Littorella uniflora (L.) Asch. in relation to water pH and nutrient availability	17
Zostera noltei Hornemann seagrass as the modulator of habitat within its canopy	17
A baseline assessment of the epiphytic community associated with pelagic sargassum in the Tropical Atlantic	16
Arrival of the non-indigenous brown alga Mutimo cylindricus to the Atlantic Ocean	16
Combined effects of marine heatwaves and reduced light on the physiology and growth of the surfgrass Phyllospadix torreyi from Baja California, Mexico	15
Editorial Board	14
Seed germination ecology of common bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris L.)	14
Carbon allocation dynamics of Spartina alterniflora in Georgia saltmarsh, USA	14
Fecundity and egg viability of Sargassum oligocystum Montagne, 1845 in Iligan Bay, Northern Mindanao, Philippines	14
Monitoring drift and associated biodiversity of nearshore rafts of holopelagic Sargassum spp. in the Mexican Caribbean	13
Evolutionary insight into the invasive allopolyploidy Spartina anglica inferred from multiple chloroplast DNA and nuclear Waxy gene	12
Metabolic responses of Halodule wrightii to hyposalinity	12

Investigating causes and implications of morphological variation in a native pondweed (Stuckenia pectinata) of San Francisco Estuary	12
Evaluating a novel biodegradable lattice structure for subtropical seagrass restoration	12
Improvement of genetic health and diversity of Zostera marina (eelgrass) in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey ten years after Hurricane Sandy: Support for the “storm stimulus” hypothesis	11
Local scale high frequency monitoring of seaweed strandings along an intertidal shore of the English Channel (Luc-sur-Mer, Normandy France) – Effect of biotic and abiotic factors	11
Seasonal plant development and meadow structure of Irish and southern Spanish seagrass populations	11
Use of Eichhornia crassipes and Pistia stratiotes for environmental services: Decontamination of aquatic environments with atrazine residues	11
Preliminary explorations of environmental tolerances and growth rates of holopelagic Sargassum morphotypes	11
The importance of plants for methane emission at the ecosystem scale	10
Modeling germination responses of three Mediterranean stem-succulent halophytes to salinity and temperature	10
Taxonomic revisions in Zosteraceae (Zostera, Nanozostera, Heterozostera and Phyllospadix)	10
The search for hybrids between Myriophyllum sibiricum and M. spicatum (Haloragaceae) in North Eurasia allowed to clarify their morphological differences and distribution	10
Effects of nutrients and light in aquatic habitat on the growth of Hydrocotyle vulgaris when expanded from terrestrial to aquatic habitat	10
Genetic legacy of ancient lands: Callitriche (Plantaginaceae) indicates Beringia and Paratethys Sea as diversification hotspots for aquatic vascular plants in Eurasia	9
Genetic diversity and population structure of Bruguiera cylindrica along coastal areas in Thailand	9
Long-term analysis of aquatic macrophyte diversity and structure in the Paraguay river ecological corridor, Brazilian Pantanal wetland	9
Reproductive phenology of coralline algae Porolithon antillarum and Lithophyllum sp. under seasonal upwelling conditions, Colombian Caribbean	9
Editorial Board	9
Crossing the Atlantic: The tropical macroalga Caulerpa ashmeadii Harvey 1858 as a recent settler in Porto Santo Island (Madeira archipelago, North-eastern Atlantic)	9
Zn ions and Fe plaque jointly alleviate Cu toxicity in Sargassum patens C. Agardh	9
First characterization of seagrasses at Sámara Bay, Pacific coast of Costa Rica	9
Macrophyte removal affects nutrient uptake and metabolism in lowland streams	9
The identification of abiotic stress by hydrogen peroxide concentration in submerged macrophyte tissues	9
The combined effect of seawater salinity and duration on the survival and growth of eelgrass Zostera marina	9
Editorial Board	9
Effects of light and temperature on volatile mediated seaweed-bacteria interactions	9
Strange but common in isolated environments: new records of Marathrum (Podostemaceae) in rivers of Colombia	9
A living fossil charophyte Lychnothamnus barbatus newly found in southern Siberia (North Asia)	9
Total mercury and methylmercury concentrations in water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) from a South Carolina coastal plain river	8
Germination of the invasive water primrose Ludwigia grandiflora in Belgium and potential implications for management	8
The complete plastome of Blidingia marginata and comparative analysis with the relative species in Ulvales	8
Sediment carbon storage in subtidal beds of the invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea along an extreme water depth gradient, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands	8
Growth patterns of three Hydrilla verticillata biotypes in the United States	8
Sargassum species as hydrozoans substrates: Key patterns of association or just availability?	8
Carbon limitation and aluminium toxicity prevents dominance of Crassula helmsii on weakly buffered soils	8
DNA barcoding and phylogenetic relationships of ecologically and commercially important seaweed species from the Azores (NE Atlantic)	8
Biological control alters competition between Pontederia crassipes Mart. (Pontederiaceae) and Salvinia minima Baker (Salviniales: Salviniaceae) in a eutrophic waterbody	7
Low irradiance disrupts the internal O2 dynamics of seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) leading to shoot meristem H2S intrusion	7
Invasive Nitellopsis obtusa (starry stonewort) has distinct late-season phenology compared to native and other invasive macrophytes in Minnesota, USA	7
First report of Halophila stipulacea (Forsskål) Ascherson,1867 in the Dominican Republic, an invasive species that continues to expand across the Caribbean	7
Effects of the ultraviolet filter oxybenzone on physiological responses in a red macroalga, Gracilaria vermiculophylla	7
Morphological changes and biochemical reaction of Ulva rigida in response to the toxic effect of bisphenol A under experimental conditions	7
Multiple introduction events expand the range of the invasive brown alga Rugulopteryx okamurae to northern Spain	7
First discovery of an intersubgeneric hybrid Sparganium emersum × S. microcarpum (Typhaceae) based on morphological and molecular data	7
Herbivore damage and riparian shade constrain biomass distribution in American water willow (Justicia americana)	7
Critical summer irradiance requirements for biomass accrual of the seagrass Zostera muelleri	6
Eucheumatoid seaweed farming in the southern Philippines	6
Morphotaxonomic, phylogenetic and phytochemical study of the invasive, green-tide-forming macroalga Ulva tepida (Chlorophyta) firstly recorded from the African-Mediterranean coastal waters	6
Effects of desiccation and rehydration on carbon fixation and DOC release in Sargassum thunbergii	6
Genetic and epigenetic variation of Trapa bispinosa under slope gradient: A case study in a subtropical freshwater lake	6
Rivers as corridors for gene flow of the neotropical bamboo Guadua velutina	6

Geographical distribution of floating aquatic plants in relation to environmental conditions in southern Quebec, Canada	6
Hybrid between Lemna minor and L. turionifera (L. × japonica, Lemnaceae) in East Europe is more frequent than parental species and poorly distinguishable from them	6
Integrative taxonomy reveals the presence of seagrass Ruppia brevipedunculata in India	6
The effect of abrupt increase in water temperature on the survival and growth of eelgrass Zostera marina	6
Reproductive and recruitment potential of Halophila hawaiiana	6
Marinomyxa marina presence in a Halophila stipulacea meadow near a fish farm in south Evoikos Gulf (Greece)	6
Genetic diversity of common reed in the southern Baltic Sea region – Is there an influence of disturbance?	6
Variation in nutritional quality of an invasive seagrass does not explain its low palatability to two key herbivores in a Caribbean Bay	6
Native and invaded-range surveys provide mixed support for enemy-release of Nymphoides peltata in the invaded range	6
Impact of dye treatment as management strategy on available light may favour a highly invasive alien aquatic plant	6
Distributional range shifts of Western Atlantic benthic Sargassum species (Fucales, Phaeophyceae) under future climate change scenarios	6
Herbivory in southeastern Brazilian mangroves: An analysis of 11 years of litterfall monitoring	6