OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aquatic Ecology 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Octopus americanus: a cryptic species of the O. vulgaris species complex redescribed from the Caribbean	38
Microplastics and freshwater microalgae: what do we know so far?	29
Anthropogenic impacts influence the functional traits of Chironomidae (Diptera) assemblages in a neotropical savanna river basin	18
Molecular evidence of host-parasite interactions between zooplankton and Syndiniales	16
Top-down and bottom-up effects on zooplankton size distribution in a deep stratified lake	16
Effects of experimental warming on small phytoplankton, bacteria and viruses in autumn in the Mediterranean coastal Thau Lagoon	16
Rotifera in lake subhabitats	16
The effect of food availability on thermal stress in Daphnia magna: trade-offs among oxidative stress, somatic growth, and reproduction	15
A comparison of decomposition rates and biological colonization of leaf litter from tropical and temperate origins	15
Understanding the environmental roles of herbicides on cyanobacteria, cyanotoxins, and cyanoHABs	15
Can zooplankton species be used as indicators of trophic status and ecological potential of reservoirs?	15
Multi-year movements of adult and subadult bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas): philopatry, connectivity, and environmental influences	14
Beavers in lakes: a review of their ecosystem impact	13
Allometric relationships to assess ontogenetic adaptative changes in three NE Atlantic commercial sea cucumbers (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea)	12
Aluminium in aquatic environments: abundance and ecotoxicological impacts	12
Prey contribution to the diet of Octopus insularis (Leite and Haimovici, 2008) using stable isotopes and stomach content analysis in the Western Gulf of Mexico	11
Diel vertical migration of copepods and its environmental drivers in subtropical Bahamian blue holes	11
Composition and co-occurrence patterns of Phragmites australis rhizosphere bacterial community	11
The crayfish distribution, feeding plasticity, seasonal isotopic variation and trophic role across ontogeny and habitat in a canyon-shaped reservoir	11
Implications of climate change for submerged macrophytes: effects of CO2, flow velocity and nutrient concentration on Berula erecta	11
Influence of polystyrene microplastics on rotifer (Brachionus calyciflorus) growth, reproduction, and antioxidant responses	11
Effect of land use on the phytoplankton community of Pampean shallow lakes of the Salado River basin (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)	10
“The giants’ feast”: predation of the large introduced European catfish on spawning migrating allis shads	10
Decision-making with ecological process for coastal and marine planning: current literature and future directions	10
Clearance rates of freshwater bivalves Corbicula fluminea and Utterbackia imbecillis in the presence and absence of light	10

Current environmental conditions are weak predictors of fish community structure compared to community structure of the previous year	10
Forest cover influences zooplanktonic communities in Amazonian streams	10
Spatial and environmental factors contributing to phytoplankton biogeography and biodiversity in mountain ponds across a large geographic area	9
Ice-on and ice-off dynamics of ciliates and metazooplankton in the Łuczański Canal (Poland)	9
Searching for manatees in the dark waters of a transboundary river between Mexico and Belize: a predictive distribution model	9
Medusae (Scyphozoa and hydrozoa) from the Moroccan Mediterranean coast: abundance and spatiotemporal dynamics and their economic impact	9
Patterns of seagrass macrobenthic biodiversity in the warm-temperate Knysna estuarine bay, Western Cape: a review	9
What drives benthic macroinvertebrate dispersal in different lake substrata? The case of three Mediterranean lakes	9
The influence of microplastics on the toxic effects and biodegradation of bisphenol A in the microalgae Chlorella pyrenoidosa	9
Should we redefine meiofaunal organisms? The impact of mesh size on collection of meiofauna with special regard to nematodes	9
Ontogenic change in the vertical swimming of East Asian common octopus Octopus sinensis paralarvae under different water flow conditions	8
The effect of salinity on the grazing rate and survival of Daphnia magna females adapted to different salinities	8
Feeding ecology of two subspecies of bottlenose dolphin: a tooth tale	8
Contribution of beta diversity in shaping stream macroinvertebrate communities among hydro-ecoregions	8
Large- and small-regional-scale variables interact in the dispersal patterns of aquatic macroinvertebrates from temporary ponds	8
Do the ecological drivers of lake littoral communities match and lead to congruence between organism groups?	8
Heterogeneity of macrophyte banks affects the structure of fish communities in flooded habitats of the Amazon Basin	8
Meiofauna in stream habitats: temporal dynamics of abundance, biomass and secondary production in different substrate microhabitats in a first-order stream	7
Threshold concentrations of the road salt for adverse effects on females and resting eggs of cladoceran Moina macrocopa	7
Lipid mediators in marine diatoms	7
Long-term zooplankton composition data reveal impacts of invasions on community composition in the Waikato lakes, New Zealand	7
Invertebrates in small shallow lakes and ponds: a new sampling method to study the influence of environmental factors on their communities	7
Potential application of artificial neural networks for analyzing the occurrences of fish larvae and juveniles in an estuary in northern Vietnam	7
Direct, water-chemistry mediated, and cascading effects of human-impact intensification on multitrophic biodiversity in ponds	7
An exploratory study of benthic diatom communities in stormwater ponds of different land uses and varying biocide contamination	6
Copepods as environmental indicator in lakes: special focus on changes in the proportion of calanoids along nutrient and pH gradients	6
Out of the shadows: automatic fish detection from acoustic cameras	6
Effects of habitat complexity on trophic interactions of three congeneric fish species	6
Vallisneria natans detritus supports Daphnia magna somatic growth and reproduction under addition of periphyton	6
Body P content increases over ontogeny in hemimetabolous macroinvertebrates in a Mediterranean high mountain stream	6
The effect of different coverage of aquatic plants on the phytoplankton and zooplankton community structures: a study based on a shallow macrophytic lake	6
Unraveling the role of environmental factors and dispersal capacity in a metacommunity of Amazonian stream fishes	6
Coral reef collapse in South-Central Vietnam: a consequence of multiple negative effects	6
Responses of grasses to experimental submergence in summer: implications for the management of unseasonal flows in regulated rivers	6
The effects of flood pulse on multiple aquatic organisms in a seasonal shallow lake	6
Age matters: substrate-specific colonization patterns of benthic invertebrates on installed large wood	6
Toward a phylogeny and biogeography of Diaphanosoma (Crustacea: Cladocera)	6
Community responses of intertidal foraminifera to pH variations: a culture experiment with propagules	5
Characteristics of native predators are more important than those of alien prey in determining the success of biotic resistance in marine systems	5
Cigarette butt effects on diatom health in a stream ecosystem	5
Chemical cues affecting recruitment and juvenile habitat selection in marine versus freshwater systems	5
Assessment of the allelochemical activity of Ostreopsis cf. ovata and the ovatoxins towards competitive benthic microalgae	5
Aquatic chemical ecology meets ecotoxicology	5
Depth-related plasticity in the diet composition of Pseudechinus magellanicus (Echinoidea, Temnopleuridae) in nearshore environments off central Patagonia, Argentina	5
Sphagnum physiological responses to elevated temperature, nitrogen, CO2 and low moisture in laboratory and in situ microhabitats: a review	5
Linear and nonlinear effects of nutrient enrichments on the diversity of macrobenthos in lowland watercourses	5
The role of changing pH on olfactory success of predator–prey interactions in green shore crabs, Carcinus maenas	5
Riparian vegetation structure and seasonality influence functional diversity more than taxonomic diversity of stream fish assemblages in the Colombian Amazon	5
Are aquatic Hemiptera good indicators of environmental river conditions?	5
AcousticIA, a deep neural network for multi-species fish detection using multiple models of acoustic cameras	5

Impact of environmental conditions on phospholipid fatty acid composition: implications from two contrasting estuaries	5
Do antipredator responses of Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis tadpoles depend on the intensity of predation risk?	5
Differential effects of a catastrophic wildfire on downstream fish assemblages in an aridland river	5
A meta-analysis of benthic rotifer community structure as a function of lake trophic state	4
Social media in service of marine ecology: new observations of the ghost crab Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787) scavenging on Portuguese man-of-war Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	4
Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) diet and prey selection as assessed by the analysis of pellets collected under resting sites (River Ticino, north Italy)	4
Algal complexity positively affects the abundance, richness and diversity of molluscan assemblages of a semiarid hypersaline mangrove	4
Egg morphology may underpin the successful distribution of large branchiopods in temporary waters	4
Heavy metal phytoremediation of aqueous solution by Typha domingensis	4
Plasticity in depth selection behavior and heat shock proteins in Daphnia	4
What are the main environmental predictors of differences in the community structure of periphytic desmids in a semi-arid floodplain lake?	4
Invasive Alternanthera philoxeroides has performance advantages over natives under flooding with high amount of nitrogen	4
Macrobenthic invertebrate energy densities and ecological status in freshwater watercourses (Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Northeast Italy)	4
Distribution characteristics of ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms and their responses to external nitrogen and carbon in sediments of a freshwater reservoir, China	4
A study on evaluation index of the biotic integrity based on phytoplankton for a Chinese reservoir	4
Allometric relationships in the filtration rates of the Asian clam Corbicula fluminea fed two phytoplankton species	4
European catfish Silurus glanis behaviour in response to a strong summer hypoxic event in a shallow lake	4
Land cover is the main correlate of phytoplankton beta diversity in subtropical coastal shallow lakes	4
Influence of spatial and environmental factors on the structure of a zooplankton metacommunity in an intermittent river	4
Regionally divergent patterns of grass carp relative abundance, feeding habits and trophic niches in the subtropical Pearl River basin	4
An integrated analysis of pond ecosystem around Poyang Lake: assessment of water quality, sediment geochemistry, phytoplankton and benthic macroinvertebrates diversity and habitat condition	4
Impacts of exposure to mine tailings on zooplankton hatching from a resting egg bank	4
The role of algal chemical defenses in the feeding preferences of the long-spined sea urchin Diadema antillarum	4
Scale-sensitive stream slope drives nested fish trait-based diversity	4
Seamounts and oceanic currents drive the population structure of Octopus insularis in the Southwest Tropical Atlantic	4
Segregation of diets by sex and individual in South American fur seals	4
The effects of inter-annual fluctuations in precipitation, lake surface area, and wind speed on phytoplankton structure in three shallow Mediterranean lakes (Sakarya, Turkey)	4
Spatial variation in bacterial community and dissolved organic matter composition in groundwater near a eutrophic lake	4
Strong top-down effects of omnivorous fish and macroinvertebrates on periphytic algae and macrophytes in a tropical reservoir	4