OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Polar Biology is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrast of warm and cold phases in the Bering Sea to understand spatial distributions of Arctic and sub-Arctic gadids	32
Population trends of penguins in the French Southern Territories	26
Update on the global abundance and distribution of breeding Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua)	25
The buoyancy-based biotope axis of the evolutionary radiation of Antarctic cryonotothenioid fishes	21
Yes, they can: polar bears Ursus maritimus successfully hunt Svalbard reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus	20
Reduced seasonal sea ice and increased sea surface temperature change prey and foraging behaviour in an ice-obligate Arctic seabird, Mandt’s black guillemot (Cepphus grylle mandtii)	20
Circumpolar genetic population structure of polar cod, Boreogadus saida	19
Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) and killer whale (Orcinus orca) co-occurrence in the U.S. Pacific Arctic, 2009–2018: evidence from bowhead whale carcasses	18
16S rRNA gene and 18S rRNA gene diversity in microbial mat communities in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica	17
The Little Auk Alle alle: an ecological indicator of a changing Arctic and a model organism	17
Can heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) serve as biomarkers in Antarctica for future ocean acidification, warming and salinity stress?	17
Estimating microbial mat biomass in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica using satellite imagery and ground surveys	17
Broad feeding niches of capelin and sand lance may overlap those of polar cod and other native fish in the eastern Canadian Arctic	16
Ringed seal (Pusa hispida) diet on the west coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway: during a time of ecosystem change	16
Molecular diversity of the microbial community in coloured snow from the Fildes Peninsula (King George Island, Maritime Antarctica)	15
Age- and sex-specific movement, behaviour and habitat-use patterns of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in the Eastern Canadian Arctic	14
The diet of the Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides, a deep-sea top predator off Southwest Atlantic Ocean	14
Early detection of marine non-indigenous species on Svalbard by DNA metabarcoding of sediment	13
Variability in primary productivity and bio-optical properties in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during an austral summer	13
Variation in habitat use of Beaufort Sea polar bears	13
Myco- and photobiont associations in crustose lichens in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (Antarctica) reveal high differentiation along an elevational gradient	12
Seasonal abundance, distribution, and growth of the early life stages of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) and saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) in the US Arctic	12
Arctic gadids in a rapidly changing environment	12
Dietary plasticity and the importance of salmon to brown bear (Ursus arctos) body size and condition in a low Arctic ecosystem	12
Community structure and spatial distribution of phytoplankton in relation to hydrography in the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea (autumn 2008)	11

Estimating the average distribution of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba at the northern Antarctic Peninsula during austral summer and winter	11
Crary bank: a deep foraging habitat for emperor penguins in the western Ross Sea	11
Un-crewed aerial vehicle population survey of three sympatrically breeding seabird species at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands	11
A decade of marine mammal acoustical presence and habitat preference in the Bering Sea	11
Heat-related massive chick mortality in an Imperial Cormorant Leucocarbo atriceps colony from Patagonia, Argentina	11
Auditory biology of bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus)	10
Mesozooplankton succession in a sub-Antarctic bay (Beagle channel, Southern tip of South America): distinctive annual patterns between two environmentally different zones	10
Rolling stones gather moss: movement and longevity of moss balls on an Alaskan glacier	10
Fifty-year change in penguin abundance on Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: results of the 2019–20 census	10
Microbial insights from Antarctic and Mediterranean shallow-water bone-eating worms	10
Movement, diving, and haul-out behaviors of juvenile bearded seals in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas, 2014–2018	10
Coprophagic behaviour of southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) during breeding period	10
Reproductive natural history of endangered Cook Inlet Beluga whales: insights from a long-term photo-identification study	9
Predictors of invertebrate biomass and rate of advancement of invertebrate phenology across eight sites in the North American Arctic	9
The first record of the golden jackal (Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758) in the Russian Subarctic	9
Trophic niches of benthic crustaceans in the Pechora Sea suggest that the invasive snow crab Chionoecetes opilio could be an important competitor	9
Demographic and maturity patterns of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in an overwintering hotspot	9
Ocean currents as a potential dispersal pathway for Antarctica’s most persistent non-native terrestrial insect	9
Summer activity patterns for a moss and lichen in the maritime Antarctic with respect to altitude	9
Ecophysiological and ultrastructural characterisation of the circumpolar orange snow alga Sanguina aurantia compared to the cosmopolitan red snow alga Sanguina nivaloides (Chlorophyta)	9
The last refugia for a polar relict pollinator: isolates of Bombus glacialis on Novaya Zemlya and Wrangel Island indicate its broader former range in the Pleistocene	9
Recent shift in biological communities: A case study from the Eastern European Russian Arctic (Bol`shezemelskaya Tundra)	9
Could Norwegian fjords serve as an analogue for the future of the Svalbard fjords? State and fate of high latitude fjords in the face of progressive “atlantification”	8
Phylogeography of split kelp Hedophyllum nigripes: northern ice-age refugia and trans-Arctic dispersal	8
Distinct genetic clustering in the weakly differentiated polar cod, Boreogadus saida Lepechin, 1774 from East Siberian Sea to Svalbard	8
Diversity, distribution, and xerophilic tolerance of cultivable fungi associated with the Antarctic angiosperms	8
Diet of capelin (Mallotus villosus) in the Eastern Canadian Arctic inferred from stomach contents and stable isotopes	8
Benthic communities at the marine protected area Namuncurá/Burdwood bank, SW Atlantic Ocean: detection of vulnerable marine ecosystems and contributions to the assessment of the rezoning process	8
Diet and breeding habitat preferences of White-tailed Eagles in a northern inland environment	8
Biodiversity of Isopoda and Cumacea (Peracarida, Crustacea) from the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank, South-West Atlantic	8
Sea-ice habitat minimizes grazing impact and predation risk for larval Antarctic krill	8
Multi-scale temporal variability in biological-physical associations in the NE Chukchi Sea	8
Diet composition and body condition of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in relation to sea ice habitat in the Canadian High Arctic	8
Population decline of the cape petrel (Daption capense) on King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica	8
An update on the indigenous vascular flora of sub-Antarctic Marion Island: taxonomic changes, sequences for DNA barcode loci, and genome size data	8
Structure and distribution of fish assemblages at Burdwood Bank, the first Sub-Antarctic Marine Protected Area “Namuncurá” in Argentina (Southwestern Atlantic Ocean)	7
Prokaryotic diversity and biogeochemical characteristics of benthic microbial ecosystems from James Ross Archipelago (West Antarctica)	7
Genomics and transcriptomics analyses provide insights into the cold adaptation strategies of an Antarctic bacterium, Cryobacterium sp. SO1	7
Mitochondrial genome diversity and population mitogenomics of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) and Arctic dwelling gadoids	7
Spatial and temporal diet variability of Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae) and Emperor (Aptenodytes forsteri) Penguin: a multi tissue stable isotope analysis	7
Annual variation of oceanographic conditions changed migration timing of bowhead whales Balaena mysticetus in the southern Chukchi Sea	7
Epibenthic megafauna communities in Northeast Greenland vary across coastal, continental shelf and slope habitats	7
Cyanobacterial diversity of Svalbard Archipelago	7
Potential dispersal of tardigrades by birds through endozoochory: evidence from Sub-Antarctic White-bellied Seedsnipe (Attagis malouinus)	7
Allometric relationships of ecologically important Antarctic and Arctic zooplankton and fish species	7
Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) song pattern in the southern Chukchi Sea	7
Preliminary study of the benthic fauna in lakes of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and Vaigach Island (the Russian Arctic)	7
Maintenance of nest quality in Adélie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae: an additional benefit to life in the center	7
Decreased lipid storage in juvenile Bering Sea crabs (Chionoecetes spp.) in a warm (2014) compared to a cold (2012) year on the southeastern Bering Sea	7
Are the diets of sympatric Pygoscelid penguins more similar than previously thought?	7

Ensemble forecasting of invasion risk for four alien springtail (Collembola) species in Antarctica	7
Phytoplankton succession during a massive coastal diatom bloom at Marian Cove, King George Island, Antarctica	6
Morphological dietary composition of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) along the East Antarctic continental slope	6
Variation in migration behaviors used by Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea) breeding across a wide latitudinal gradient	6
Genotoxicity of oxidative stress and UV-B radiation in Antarctic vascular plants	6
Differences in diversity and photoprotection capability between ice algae and under-ice phytoplankton in Saroma-Ko Lagoon, Japan: a comparative taxonomic diatom analysis with microscopy and DNA barcod	6
An extreme marine environment: a 14-month record of temperature in a polar tidepool	6
High abundances of small copepods early developmental stages and nauplii strengthen the perception of a non-dormant Arctic winter	6
Anthropogenic activities are associated with shorter telomeres in chicks of Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae)	6
Experimental evidence of antimicrobial activity in Antarctic seaweeds: ecological role and antibiotic potential	6
Persistent organic pollutants and mercury in a colony of Antarctic seabirds: higher concentrations in 1998, 2001, and 2003 compared to 2014 to 2016	6
Cold tolerance is similar but heat tolerance is higher in the alien insect Trichocera maculipennis than in the native Parochlus steinenii in Antarctica	6
Vagrant sub-Antarctic fur seal at tropical Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean	6
Unraveling the effects of environmental drivers and spatial structure on benthic species distribution patterns in Eurasian-Arctic seas (Barents, Kara and Laptev Seas)	6
Genome size and chromosome number of ten plant species from Kerguelen Islands	6
Planktonic ciliates in different water masses of Cosmonaut and Cooperation Seas (Indian sector of the Southern Ocean) during austral summer	6
DNA metabarcoding data reveals harmful algal-bloom species undescribed previously at the northern Antarctic Peninsula region	6
Trophic ecology of the yellowfin notothen, Patagonotothen guntheri (Norman, 1937) at the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank, Argentina	6
Effects of iron limitation on carbon balance and photophysiology of the Antarctic diatom Chaetoceros cf. simplex	6
Giant petrels (Macronectes spp.) prey on depredating sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)	6
Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus depredating breeding Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses Thalassarche chlororhynchos on Gough Island	6
Lagged response of Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) abundance to environmental variability in the Ross Sea, Antarctica	6
First evidence of microplastics in the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá at Burdwood Bank, Argentina: a study on Henricia obesa and Odontaster penicillatus (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)	6
Life-history traits of the Magellan plunderfish Harpagifer bispinis (Forster, 1801) in the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego, South America)	6
Annual survival of Arctic terns in western Iceland	6
Large-scale genetic structure and diversity of Arctic rainbow smelt Osmerus dentex Steindachner et Kner, 1870 throughout its distributional range based on microsatellites	6
Evaluation of factors influencing the eradication of annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) from Point Thomas Oasis, King George Island, Maritime Antarctica	6
The occurrence of Nematoda in coastal sea ice on Svalbard (European Arctic) determined with the 18S small subunit rRNA gene	6
Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) and killer whale (Orcinus orca) co-occurrence in the eastern Chukchi Sea, 2009–2019: evidence from gray whale carcasses observed during aerial surveys	6
Benthic scavenger community composition and carrion removal in Arctic and Subarctic fjords	6
Fungal diversity in seasonal snow of Martel Inlet, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, assessed using DNA metabarcoding	6
Summer circumpolar acoustic occurrence and call rates of Ross, Ommatophoca rossii, and leopard, Hydrurga leptonyx, seals in the Southern Ocean	6
High diversity of planktonic prokaryotes in Arctic Kongsfjorden seawaters in summer 2015	6
Bioremediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated soil from Carlini Station, Antarctica: effectiveness of different nutrient sources as biostimulation agents	5
Variability in nitrogen-derived trophic levels of Arctic marine biota	5
Microbial diversity and dominant bacteria causing spoilage during storage and processing of the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba	5
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) distributions, aggregation structures, and predator interactions in Bransfield Strait	5
A review of leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) births and pups using a standardised age-class classification system	5
Abundance, habitat use and food consumption of seabirds in the high-Arctic fjord ecosystem	5
The taxonomic identity and distribution of the eel cod Muraenolepis (Gadiformes: Muraenolepididae) around South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	5
Reproductive features in the sea cucumber Pentactella perrieri (Ekman, 1927) (Holothuroidea: Cucumariidae): a brooding hermaphrodite species from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean	5
Thermal adaptations of adults and eggs in the Arctic seed bug Nysius groenlandicus (Insecta: Hemiptera) from South Greenland	5
Changes in the moss (Bryophyta) flora in the vicinity of the Spanish Juan Carlos I Station (Livingston island, Antarctica) over three decades	5
Feeding ecology of the long finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas edwardii, in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, determined by stable isotopes analysis	5
Selecting environmental descriptors is critical for modelling the distribution of Antarctic benthic species	5
The diversity and antibacterial activity of culturable actinobacteria isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Deschampsia antarctica (Galindez Island, Maritime Antarctic)	5
High Arctic biocrusts: characterization of the exopolysaccharidic matrix	5
First evidence of interchange of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) between the Magellan Strait and Antarctic Peninsula feeding grounds	5
Molecular identification of redfish (genus Sebastes) in the White Sea indicates patterns of introgressive hybridisation	5
Sub-Arctic alpine Vaccinium vitis-idaea exhibits resistance to strong variation in snowmelt timing and frost exposure, suggesting high resilience under climatic change	5
Differences in the fecal microbiota due to the sexual niche segregation of captive Gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua	5
Identification and validation of new reference genes for accurate quantitative reverse transcriptase-PCR normalization in the Antarctic plant Colobanthus quitensis under abiotic stress conditions	5
Tendons and ligaments of the Rangifer tarandus metapodial and hoof	5
Bioerosion ichnodiversity in barnacles from the Ross Sea, Antarctica	5
Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) reproductive capacity changes in three time frames during 1975–2010	5
Video survey of deep benthic macroalgae and macroalgal detritus along a glacial Arctic fjord: Kongsfjorden (Spitsbergen)	5
Structure of virioplankton and viral lysis of prokaryotes on the shelf of Siberian Arctic seas: impact of large river runoff	5
Penguin predation by extra-limital sub-Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus tropicalis	5
Examination of saffron cod Eleginus gracilis (Tilesius 1810) population genetic structure	5
Do skeletal Mg/Ca ratios of Arctic rhodoliths reflect atmospheric CO2 concentrations?	5
Navaga Eleginus nawaga of the White Sea: a brief review with emphasis on the Soviet-Russian literature	5
Spatial distribution of microzooplankton in different areas of the northern Antarctic Peninsula region, with an emphasis on tintinnids	5
Variation among colonies in breeding success and population trajectories of wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans at South Georgia	5
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites as an indicator of adrenocortical activity in Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) and recommendations for future studies	5
Phenological responses of the Arctic, ubiquitous, and boreal copepod species to long-term changes in the annual seasonality of the water temperature in the White Sea	5
Egg retention of high-latitude sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in the Pilgrim River, Alaska, during the Pacific marine heatwave of 2014–2016	5
Presence of King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Elephant Island provides further evidence of range expansion	5
Feeding ecology of the longtail southern cod, Patagonotothen ramsayi (Regan, 1913) (Notothenioidei) in the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank, Argentina	5
Thermal responses of two sub-Antarctic notothenioid fishes, the black southern cod Patagonotothen tessellata (Richardson, 1845) and the Magellan plunderfish Harpagifer bispinis (Forster, 1801), from s	5
Pellet analysis evidences flexibility in the diet of Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus) during breeding at Esperanza/Hope Bay (Antarctic Peninsula)	5
Parental care and demography of a spawning population of the channichthyid Neopagetopsis ionah, Nybelin 1947 from the Weddell Sea	5