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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau61
Biogeochemical‐Argo floats show that chlorophyll increases before carbon in the high‐latitude Southern Ocean spring bloom59
Always ready? Primary production of Arctic phytoplankton at the end of the polar night52
Ice‐melt period dominates annual carbon dioxide evasion from clear‐water Arctic lakes51
Cross‐contamination risks in sediment‐based resurrection studies of phytoplankton45
Eutrophication triggers diel and seasonal shifts of carbon dioxide and oxygen in tropical urban coastal waters43
Effects of freshwater salinization on a salt‐naïve planktonic eukaryote community42
Tried and true vs. shiny and new: Method switching in long‐term aquatic datasets38
Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north‐temperate lakes38
Methanogenesis exceeds CH4 consumption in eutrophic lake sediments37
Validity of the Landsat surface reflectance archive for aquatic science: Implications for cloud‐based analysis37
Grazer‐induced changes on mechanical properties of diatoms frustule: A new proof for a watery arms race36
Exploring the mismatch between the theory and application of photosynthetic quotients in aquatic ecosystems33
Unveiling differential thermal sensitivities in marine phytoplankton within the China Seas32
Vertical stratification of environmental DNA in the open ocean captures ecological patterns and behavior of deep‐sea fishes31
A global review of pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean's elusive gelatinous “fire‐bodies”31
Blooms also like it cold29
Recent warming of the Kuroshio Current has promoted offshore sediment transport in the Yellow Sea26
Increased anoxia following species invasion of a eutrophic lake26
Key bacterial groups maintain stream multifunctionality in response to episodic drying26
Remote silicate supply regulates spring phytoplankton bloom magnitude in the Gulf of Maine26
Seasonal patterns of microbial diversity across the world oceans25
Clarifying water clarity: A call to use metrics best suited to corresponding research and management goals in aquatic ecosystems25
Taxonomic identity, biodiversity, and antecedent disturbances shape the dimensional stability of stream invertebrates23
Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie22
Show and tell: approaches for effective figures22
Biologically driven isotope fractionation in ultrastructurally different shell portions of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera): Implications for stream water δ18O 22
Arctic fishes reveal patterns in radiocarbon age across habitats and with recent climate change21
Calcium carbonate and phosphorus interactions in inland waters20
Brachiopods as archives of intrannual, annual, and interannual environmental variations20
Taking steps to address inequities in open‐access publishing through an early career publication honor18
Enhanced stream greenhouse gas emissions at night and during flood events18
Lake browning generates a spatiotemporal mismatch between dissolved organic carbon and limiting nutrients18
Energy inputs imprint seasonality and fractal structure on river metabolic regimes17
Widespread synchrony in phosphorus concentrations in northern lakes linked to winter temperature and summer precipitation17
Variability‐based constraint on ocean primary production models16
LAGOS‐US RESERVOIR: A database classifying conterminous U.S. lakes 4 ha and larger as natural lakes or reservoir lakes16
Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding and future perspectives16
Shedding light on cobalamin photodegradation in the ocean16
A dataset of individual wet weights of benthic macroinvertebrates15
Extreme plasticity in the photosystem composition of a low‐light Prochlorococcus ecotype in response to iron and light15
Impacts of riverine heatwaves on rates of ecosystem metabolism in the United States15
Rapid phytoplankton response to wind forcing influences productivity in upwelling bays15
Oyster shells as archives of present and past environmental variability and life history traits: A multi‐disciplinary review of sclerochronology methods and applications15
Changes in phytoplankton and biomineral content of particles during episodic fluxes to abyssal depth14
Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers14
DOC, grazers, and resilience of phytoplankton to enrichment13
Anthropogenic nutrient inputs affect productivity–biodiversity relationships in marine tintinnid assemblages13
Combining genetic and isotope frameworks improves reconstruction of fish provenance across riverscapes13
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
Diverse arsenic‐containing lipids in the surface ocean13
Prochlorococcus,Synechococcus, and picoeukaryotic phytoplankton abundances in the global ocean13
A rationale for higher ratios of CH4 to CO2 production in warmer anoxic freshwater sediments and soils12
Does salinization impact long‐term Daphnia assemblage dynamics? Evidence from the sediment egg bank in a small hard‐water lake12
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Qualitative and quantitative changes in phenology of chlorophyll a concentrations during the transition from eutrophy to oligotrophy12
Thermal sensitivity in dual‐breathing ectotherms: Embryos and mothers determine species' vulnerability to climate change11
Hiding in plain sight: The secret contribution of the solitary ascidian Herdmania grandis to temperate reef nitrous oxide production11
Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning11
Decadal warming has intensified Microcystis‐dominated cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie11
Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities11
Contrasting impacts of warming and browning on periphyton11
Reconstructing life‐time reproductive histories using steroid hormones in cephalopod beaks11
Nutrient co‐limitation in the subtropical Northwest Pacific11
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Direct contribution of invertebrate holobionts to methane release from coastal sediments11
Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO2 equilibration for marine CO2 removal10
A model of near‐sea ice phytoplankton blooms10
Lake networks and connectivity metrics for the conterminous U.S. (LAGOS‐US NETWORKS v1)10
Dissolved organic matter offsets the detrimental effects of climate change in the nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera10
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Earlier ice melt increases hypolimnetic oxygen despite regional warming in small Arctic lakes10
Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on inland urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export10
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Bifurcate responses of tidal range to sea‐level rise in estuaries with marsh evolution10
Tagging of water masses with covariance of trace metals and prokaryotic taxa in the Southern Ocean9
Effects of seagrass overgrazing on sediment erosion and carbon sink capacity: Current understanding and future priorities9
Extreme value distributions describe interannual variability in the seasonal North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom9
Polyphosphate phosphorus in the Great Lakes9
Climate‐influenced phenology of larval fish transport in a large lake9
Tributary chloride loading into Lake Michigan8
Unexpected mismatches in population structure among marine mussel life‐history stages reveal the true scales of planktonic larval dispersal8
Drainage‐induced browning causes both loss and change of benthic biodiversity in headwater streams8
Tracking freshwater browning and coastal water darkening from boreal forests to the Arctic Ocean8
Variable phenology but consistent loss of ice cover on 1213 Minnesota lakes8
Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome8
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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
Concurrent global change and marine heatwaves disturb phototrophic more than heterotrophic protist diversity8
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A case for addressing the unresolved role of permeable shelf sediments in ocean denitrification8
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Assessing N2 fixation flux and its controlling factors in the (sub)tropical western North Pacific through high‐resolution observations7
A novel mechanism explaining the temperature dependence of marine unicellular nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacteria7
Phytoplankton as indicators of global warming?7
Microbial methane oxidation efficiency and robustness during lake overturn7
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
Estimating ocean net primary productivity from daily cycles of carbon biomass measured by profiling floats7
Short wave attenuation by a kelp forest canopy7
Correction to “Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean”7
Light and nutrients modulate the temperature‐sensitivity of growth in phytoplankton7
Establishing fluvial silicon regimes and their stability across the Northern Hemisphere6
Significant benthic fluxes of bioavailable dissolved amino acids to the ocean: Results from the East/Japan Sea6
Over half a century record of limnology data from Lake Powell, desert southwest United States: From reservoir filling to present day (1964–2021)6
Understanding and predicting harmful algal blooms in a changing climate: A trait‐based framework6
Phytoplankton antioxidant systems and their contributions to cellular elemental stoichiometry6
Acoustic twilight: A year‐long seafloor monitoring unveils phenological patterns in the abyssal soundscape6
High rates of carbon burial linked to autochthonous production in artificial ponds6
Idiosyncratic phenology of greenhouse gas emissions in a Mediterranean reservoir6
Groundwater‐stream connections shape the spatial pattern and rates of aquatic metabolism6
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Hydrology, rather than wildfire burn extent, determines post‐fire organic and black carbon export from mountain rivers in central coastal California6
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Alkalinity contributes at least a third of annual gross primary production in a deep stratified hardwater lake6
Nonlinear water clarity trends and impacts on littoral area in Minnesota lakes6
Knowing your limits: Patterns and drivers of nutrient limitation and nutrient–chlorophyll relationships in US lakes6
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A unified dataset of colocated sewage pollution, periphyton, and benthic macroinvertebrate community and food web structure from Lake Baikal (Siberia)5
Coastal acidification alters estuarine sediment nitrous oxide and methane fluxes5
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Integrating siphonophores into marine food‐web ecology5
Spatially varying plankton synchrony patterns at seasonal and interannual scales in a well‐connected shelf sea5
Risk to native marine macroalgae from land‐use and climate change‐related modifications to groundwater discharge in Hawaiʻi5
Leaf litter breakdown phenology in headwater stream networks is modulated by groundwater thermal regimes and litter type5
Unraveling Lake Geneva's hypoxia crisis in the Anthropocene5
Deep‐learning‐powered data analysis in plankton ecology5
Effects of chloride and nutrients on freshwater plankton communities5
Impact of atmospheric pressure variations on methane ebullition and lake turbidity during ice‐cover5
Potential drivers and consequences of regional phosphate depletion in the western subtropical North Pacific5
Constraining growth rates and the ratio of living to nonliving particulate carbon using beam attenuation and adenosine‐5′‐triphosphate at Station ALOHA5
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Flow intermittence alters carbon processing in rivers through chemical diversification of leaf litter4
Sink or break: Oil increases resistance of phytoplankton aggregates to fragmentation4
Coastal wetland adaptability to sea level rise: The neglected role of semi‐diurnal vs. diurnal tides4
Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community‐level salt tolerance4
Interpreting consequences of inadequate sampling of oceanic motions4
Particulate organic carbon sedimentation triggers lagged methane emissions in a eutrophic reservoir4
Phosphorus limitation determines the quality of dissolved organic matter released by marine heterotrophic prokaryotes4
Low‐molecular‐weight reduced sulfur substances: A major component of nonvolatile dissolved organic sulfur in the Pacific Ocean4
Adaptive traits of Planctomycetota bacteria to thrive in macroalgal habitats and establish mutually beneficial relationship with macroalgae4
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Sustained upward groundwater discharge through salt marsh tidal creeks4
Worms and submersed macrophytes reduce methane release and increase nutrient removal in organic sediments4
Pore‐water exchange flushes blue carbon from intertidal saltmarsh sediments into the sea4
Evidence of partial thermal compensation in natural phytoplankton assemblages4
Disaster avoided: current state of the Baltic Sea without human intervention to reduce nutrient loads3
Mesocosm experiments validate induction of Daphnia vertical migration by the fish‐derived kairomone 5α‐cyprinol sulfate3
Catastrophic bleaching in protected reefs of the Southern Great Barrier Reef3
High methane emissions from an anoxic fjord driven by mixing and oxygenation3
Mineral surface area of sinking particles in the deep ocean interior: Preliminary implications3
pCO2 variation in ice‐covered regions of the Arctic Ocean from the summer 2022 observation3
Some considerations of measuring temperature sensitivity in thermal ecology3
Relative importance of bacterivorous mixotrophs in an estuary‐coast environment3
Forecasting climate and human alterations to coastal and estuarine dissolved organic matter3
The elephant in the conference room: reducing the carbon footprint of aquatic science meetings3
Grazer‐induced aggregation in diatoms3
A mangrove nitrous oxide sink attenuates methane climate impacts3
An absorption‐based approach to improved estimates of phytoplankton biomass and net primary production3
Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean3
Multiple climatic drivers increase pace and consequences of ecosystem change in the Arctic Coastal Ocean3
A stream‐to‐sea experiment reveals inhibitory effects of freshwater residency on organic‐matter decomposition in the sea3
Snow removal cools a small dystrophic lake3
Establishing a long‐term citizen science project? Lessons learned from the Community Lake Ice Collaboration spanning over 30 yr and 1000 lakes3
Ba/Ca in foraminifera shells as a proxy of submarine groundwater discharge3
Estimation of lifelong metabolic rates in marine fish: A combination of oxygen consumption measurements and δ13C metabolic proxy derived from vertebral structural carbonates3
A new metric for sunlight exposure in rivers, lakes, and oceans3
Characterization of a Southern Ocean deep chlorophyll maximum: Response of phytoplankton to light, iron, and manganese enrichment3
Single‐species acute lethal toxicity tests are not predictive of relative population and community effects of two salinity types3
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