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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Cross‐contamination risks in sediment‐based resurrection studies of phytoplankton93
Grazer‐induced changes on mechanical properties of diatoms frustule: A new proof for a watery arms race78
Effects of freshwater salinization on a salt‐naïve planktonic eukaryote community62
Biogeochemical‐Argo floats show that chlorophyll increases before carbon in the high‐latitude Southern Ocean spring bloom58
Tried and true vs. shiny and new: Method switching in long‐term aquatic datasets52
Sequestration by the biological carbon pump: Do we really know what we are talking about?52
Ice‐melt period dominates annual carbon dioxide evasion from clear‐water Arctic lakes43
Eutrophication triggers diel and seasonal shifts of carbon dioxide and oxygen in tropical urban coastal waters42
Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north‐temperate lakes41
A global review of pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean's elusive gelatinous “fire‐bodies”38
Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau38
Exploring the mismatch between the theory and application of photosynthetic quotients in aquatic ecosystems38
Unveiling differential thermal sensitivities in marine phytoplankton within the China Seas34
Validity of the Landsat surface reflectance archive for aquatic science: Implications for cloud‐based analysis33
Blooms also like it cold33
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Recent warming of the Kuroshio Current has promoted offshore sediment transport in the Yellow Sea31
Coupling air–water CO 2 flux and primary production dynamics under hydro26
Remote silicate supply regulates spring phytoplankton bloom magnitude in the Gulf of Maine26
Seasonal patterns of microbial diversity across the world oceans25
Increased anoxia following species invasion of a eutrophic lake25
An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem23
Key bacterial groups maintain stream multifunctionality in response to episodic drying23
Taking steps to address inequities in open‐access publishing through an early career publication honor23
Clarifying water clarity: A call to use metrics best suited to corresponding research and management goals in aquatic ecosystems23
Shedding light on cobalamin photodegradation in the ocean21
Local water year values for the conterminous United States21
Show and tell: approaches for effective figures21
Taxonomic identity, biodiversity, and antecedent disturbances shape the dimensional stability of stream invertebrates21
Energy inputs imprint seasonality and fractal structure on river metabolic regimes21
Enhanced stream greenhouse gas emissions at night and during flood events20
Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie20
Arctic fishes reveal patterns in radiocarbon age across habitats and with recent climate change19
Calcium carbonate and phosphorus interactions in inland waters19
Brachiopods as archives of intrannual, annual, and interannual environmental variations19
Biologically driven isotope fractionation in ultrastructurally different shell portions of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera): Implications for stream water δ18O 19
The role of surface water waves on cyanobacterial blooms in lakes19
The cycling of glycine betaine and homarine in marine microbial communities: Quantitative flux measurements and the role of competitive uptake inhibition19
Extreme plasticity in the photosystem composition of a low‐light Prochlorococcus ecotype in response to iron and light18
Widespread synchrony in phosphorus concentrations in northern lakes linked to winter temperature and summer precipitation18
Confirming existing parameterizations for methane gas transfer velocity in lakes based on direct and high‐frequent methods18
Changes in phytoplankton and biomineral content of particles during episodic fluxes to abyssal depth18
Harnessing nature's buffer: Assessing the role of bivalve shells in coastal alkalinity regeneration17
Salinity is diagnostic of maximum potential chlorophyll and phytoplankton community structure in an Eastern Boundary Upwelling System17
LAGOS‐US RESERVOIR: A database classifying conterminous U.S. lakes 4 ha and larger as natural lakes or reservoir lakes17
Impacts of riverine heatwaves on rates of ecosystem metabolism in the United States17
Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers16
Rapid phytoplankton response to wind forcing influences productivity in upwelling bays16
Oyster shells as archives of present and past environmental variability and life history traits: A multi‐disciplinary review of sclerochronology methods and applications15
Contrasting greenhouse gas dynamics along a coastal‐to‐oligotrophic ocean continuum15
Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding and future perspectives15
A dataset of individual wet weights of benthic macroinvertebrates15
DOC, grazers, and resilience of phytoplankton to enrichment14
Predictable shifts in diversity and ecosystem function in phytoplankton communities along coastal salinity continua14
A matter of salt: Global assessment of the effect of salt ionic composition as a driver of aquatic bacterial diversity14
Anthropogenic nutrient inputs affect productivity–biodiversity relationships in marine tintinnid assemblages14
Sulfate enrichment in estuaries of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: The potential effect of sulfide oxidation on carbonate chemistry under a changing climate14
Oceanographic heterogeneity facilitates gelatinous zooplankton niche space and diversity14
Age‐based δ15N and δ13C values of otolith organic matter reveal trophic ecology in marine fishes13
A rationale for higher ratios of CH4 to CO2 production in warmer anoxic freshwater sediments and soils13
Qualitative and quantitative changes in phenology of chlorophyll a concentrations during the transition from eutrophy to oligotrophy13
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Combining genetic and isotope frameworks improves reconstruction of fish provenance across riverscapes13
Direct contribution of invertebrate holobionts to methane release from coastal sediments12
Boat wakes enhance oyster reef mortality in a short‐fetch estuary12
Efficient cobalamin uptake and cycling contribute to the lack of cobalamins in the surface cobalt‐binding ligand pool in the North Pacific12
Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities12
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Resolving the environmental factors that determine pond thermal refuge quality12
Reconstructing life‐time reproductive histories using steroid hormones in cephalopod beaks11
Emerging patterns of CO 2  :  11
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Decadal warming has intensified Microcystis‐dominated cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie11
Contrasting impacts of warming and browning on periphyton11
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Century‐scale resilience of stored seagrass blue carbon11
Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning11
A model of near‐sea ice phytoplankton blooms10
Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on inland urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export10
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Earlier ice melt increases hypolimnetic oxygen despite regional warming in small Arctic lakes10
Dissolved organic matter offsets the detrimental effects of climate change in the nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera10
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Bifurcate responses of tidal range to sea‐level rise in estuaries with marsh evolution10
Imprint of Indian Ocean Dipole on nitrous oxide dynamics9
Climate‐influenced phenology of larval fish transport in a large lake9
Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome9
Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO2 equilibration for marine CO2 removal9
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
Polyphosphate phosphorus in the Great Lakes9
Concurrent global change and marine heatwaves disturb phototrophic more than heterotrophic protist diversity9
Estimating ocean net primary productivity from daily cycles of carbon biomass measured by profiling floats8
Parasite infection shapes the pathobiome and behavior of marine zooplankton8
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Spatiotemporal assessment of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the Bermejo River Basin in the Ecuadorian Amazonia8
Drainage‐induced browning causes both loss and change of benthic biodiversity in headwater streams8
A novel mechanism explaining the temperature dependence of marine unicellular nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacteria8
Tracking freshwater browning and coastal water darkening from boreal forests to the Arctic Ocean8
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Variable phenology but consistent loss of ice cover on 1213 Minnesota lakes8
Short wave attenuation by a kelp forest canopy8
Assessing N2 fixation flux and its controlling factors in the (sub)tropical western North Pacific through high‐resolution observations8
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Unexpected mismatches in population structure among marine mussel life‐history stages reveal the true scales of planktonic larval dispersal8
Impacts of residential fertilizer ordinances on Florida lacustrine water quality8
Daily surface temperatures for 185,549 lakes in the conterminous United States estimated using deep learning (1980–2020)7
High rates of carbon burial linked to autochthonous production in artificial ponds7
Light and nutrients modulate the temperature‐sensitivity of growth in phytoplankton7
Correction to “Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean”7
Phytoplankton as indicators of global warming?7
Global Ocean dimethylsulfide photolysis rates quantified with a spectrally and vertically resolved model7
MacroSheds: A synthesis of long‐term biogeochemical, hydroclimatic, and geospatial data from small watershed ecosystem studies7
Establishing fluvial silicon regimes and their stability across the Northern Hemisphere7
Hydrology, rather than wildfire burn extent, determines post‐fire organic and black carbon export from mountain rivers in central coastal California7
Groundwater‐stream connections shape the spatial pattern and rates of aquatic metabolism7
Alkalinity contributes at least a third of annual gross primary production in a deep stratified hardwater lake6
Significant benthic fluxes of bioavailable dissolved amino acids to the ocean: Results from the East/Japan Sea6
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Knowing your limits: Patterns and drivers of nutrient limitation and nutrient–chlorophyll relationships in US lakes6
Novel sequential modeling framework improves phytoplankton biomass predictions in response to multiple environmental stressors6
Idiosyncratic phenology of greenhouse gas emissions in a Mediterranean reservoir6
Unprecedented warming and salinization observed in the deep Adriatic6
Nonlinear water clarity trends and impacts on littoral area in Minnesota lakes6
Deep‐learning‐powered data analysis in plankton ecology6
Drivers of dissolved organic matter processing in subterranean estuaries6
Acoustic twilight: A year‐long seafloor monitoring unveils phenological patterns in the abyssal soundscape6
Understanding and predicting harmful algal blooms in a changing climate: A trait‐based framework6
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Over half a century record of limnology data from Lake Powell, desert southwest United States: From reservoir filling to present day (1964–2021)6
Coastal acidification alters estuarine sediment nitrous oxide and methane fluxes5
Potential drivers and consequences of regional phosphate depletion in the western subtropical North Pacific5
The synthesis collection: Fifty‐one essential articles for today's aquatic scientist5
Pore‐water exchange flushes blue carbon from intertidal saltmarsh sediments into the sea5
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Interpreting consequences of inadequate sampling of oceanic motions5
Particulate organic carbon sedimentation triggers lagged methane emissions in a eutrophic reservoir5
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Leaf litter breakdown phenology in headwater stream networks is modulated by groundwater thermal regimes and litter type5
Phosphorus limitation determines the quality of dissolved organic matter released by marine heterotrophic prokaryotes5
Low‐molecular‐weight reduced sulfur substances: A major component of nonvolatile dissolved organic sulfur in the Pacific Ocean5
Glacial meltwater drives high CH 4 supersaturation in Maxwell Bay, King 5
Sustained upward groundwater discharge through salt marsh tidal creeks5
Spatially varying plankton synchrony patterns at seasonal and interannual scales in a well‐connected shelf sea5
Integrating siphonophores into marine food‐web ecology5
Current methods overestimate coastal blue carbon potential5
Unraveling Lake Geneva's hypoxia crisis in the Anthropocene5
Sink or break: Oil increases resistance of phytoplankton aggregates to fragmentation5
Coastal wetland adaptability to sea level rise: The neglected role of semi‐diurnal vs. diurnal tides5
Some considerations of measuring temperature sensitivity in thermal ecology4
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
Phytoplankton iron limitation in the Atlantic Southern Ocean driven by seasonal mixed‐layer dynamics4
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Forecasting climate and human alterations to coastal and estuarine dissolved organic matter4
The elephant in the conference room: reducing the carbon footprint of aquatic science meetings4
Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community‐level salt tolerance4
Multiple climatic drivers increase pace and consequences of ecosystem change in the Arctic Coastal Ocean4
Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean4
Rethinking plastic as a habitat modifier and a transport vector for organisms in aquatic environments4
Road salt pollution shifts urban stormwater ponds toward cyanobacterial dominance4
Enhanced total carbon in runoff following rewetting of drained boreal and hemi‐boreal wetlands4
Mesocosm experiments validate induction of Daphnia vertical migration by the fish‐derived kairomone 5α‐cyprinol sulfate4
A stream‐to‐sea experiment reveals inhibitory effects of freshwater residency on organic‐matter decomposition in the sea4
Expanding the horizons of sclerochronology: New perspectives for life history and environmental monitoring4
Aquatic heatwaves increase surface chlorophyll concentrations in experimental and reference lakes4
Catastrophic bleaching in protected reefs of the Southern Great Barrier Reef4
The deep ocean as a major sink for terrestrial organic carbon4
Relative importance of bacterivorous mixotrophs in an estuary‐coast environment4
Disaster avoided: current state of the Baltic Sea without human intervention to reduce nutrient loads4
Typhoon‐induced surface chlorophyll a decline on the shelf of the South China Sea4
Snow removal cools a small dystrophic lake4
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Adaptive traits of Planctomycetota bacteria to thrive in macroalgal habitats and establish mutually beneficial relationship with macroalgae4
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