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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Tried and true vs. shiny and new: Method switching in long‐term aquatic datasets74
Cross‐contamination risks in sediment‐based resurrection studies of phytoplankton67
Eutrophication triggers diel and seasonal shifts of carbon dioxide and oxygen in tropical urban coastal waters64
Ice‐melt period dominates annual carbon dioxide evasion from clear‐water Arctic lakes54
Exploring the mismatch between the theory and application of photosynthetic quotients in aquatic ecosystems48
Vertical stratification of environmental DNA in the open ocean captures ecological patterns and behavior of deep‐sea fishes47
Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north‐temperate lakes45
Grazer‐induced changes on mechanical properties of diatoms frustule: A new proof for a watery arms race45
Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau43
A global review of pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean's elusive gelatinous “fire‐bodies”41
Sequestration by the biological carbon pump: Do we really know what we are talking about?37
Always ready? Primary production of Arctic phytoplankton at the end of the polar night36
Validity of the Landsat surface reflectance archive for aquatic science: Implications for cloud‐based analysis34
Biogeochemical‐Argo floats show that chlorophyll increases before carbon in the high‐latitude Southern Ocean spring bloom34
Blooms also like it cold33
Effects of freshwater salinization on a salt‐naïve planktonic eukaryote community32
Unveiling differential thermal sensitivities in marine phytoplankton within the China Seas29
Recent warming of the Kuroshio Current has promoted offshore sediment transport in the Yellow Sea28
Clarifying water clarity: A call to use metrics best suited to corresponding research and management goals in aquatic ecosystems28
Seasonal patterns of microbial diversity across the world oceans27
Remote silicate supply regulates spring phytoplankton bloom magnitude in the Gulf of Maine27
An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem26
Increased anoxia following species invasion of a eutrophic lake25
Key bacterial groups maintain stream multifunctionality in response to episodic drying24
Taking steps to address inequities in open‐access publishing through an early career publication honor22
Biologically driven isotope fractionation in ultrastructurally different shell portions of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera): Implications for stream water δ18O 21
The role of surface water waves on cyanobacterial blooms in lakes20
Calcium carbonate and phosphorus interactions in inland waters20
Taxonomic identity, biodiversity, and antecedent disturbances shape the dimensional stability of stream invertebrates20
Widespread synchrony in phosphorus concentrations in northern lakes linked to winter temperature and summer precipitation19
Show and tell: approaches for effective figures19
Brachiopods as archives of intrannual, annual, and interannual environmental variations19
Arctic fishes reveal patterns in radiocarbon age across habitats and with recent climate change19
Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie19
Local water year values for the conterminous United States18
Enhanced stream greenhouse gas emissions at night and during flood events18
Energy inputs imprint seasonality and fractal structure on river metabolic regimes18
Shedding light on cobalamin photodegradation in the ocean18
Changes in phytoplankton and biomineral content of particles during episodic fluxes to abyssal depth17
LAGOS‐US RESERVOIR: A database classifying conterminous U.S. lakes 4 ha and larger as natural lakes or reservoir lakes17
Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding and future perspectives16
A dataset of individual wet weights of benthic macroinvertebrates16
Confirming existing parameterizations for methane gas transfer velocity in lakes based on direct and high‐frequent methods15
Impacts of riverine heatwaves on rates of ecosystem metabolism in the United States15
Harnessing nature's buffer: Assessing the role of bivalve shells in coastal alkalinity regeneration15
Extreme plasticity in the photosystem composition of a low‐light Prochlorococcus ecotype in response to iron and light15
Salinity is diagnostic of maximum potential chlorophyll and phytoplankton community structure in an Eastern Boundary Upwelling System14
Oyster shells as archives of present and past environmental variability and life history traits: A multi‐disciplinary review of sclerochronology methods and applications14
Rapid phytoplankton response to wind forcing influences productivity in upwelling bays14
Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers13
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Qualitative and quantitative changes in phenology of chlorophyll a concentrations during the transition from eutrophy to oligotrophy13
Age‐based δ15N and δ13C values of otolith organic matter reveal trophic ecology in marine fishes13
Diverse arsenic‐containing lipids in the surface ocean13
Sulfate enrichment in estuaries of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: The potential effect of sulfide oxidation on carbonate chemistry under a changing climate13
Anthropogenic nutrient inputs affect productivity–biodiversity relationships in marine tintinnid assemblages13
DOC, grazers, and resilience of phytoplankton to enrichment13
Predictable shifts in diversity and ecosystem function in phytoplankton communities along coastal salinity continua13
Does salinization impact long‐term Daphnia assemblage dynamics? Evidence from the sediment egg bank in a small hard‐water lake13
Combining genetic and isotope frameworks improves reconstruction of fish provenance across riverscapes13
Resolving the environmental factors that determine pond thermal refuge quality12
Thermal sensitivity in dual‐breathing ectotherms: Embryos and mothers determine species' vulnerability to climate change12
A rationale for higher ratios of CH4 to CO2 production in warmer anoxic freshwater sediments and soils12
Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities12
Boat wakes enhance oyster reef mortality in a short‐fetch estuary12
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Efficient cobalamin uptake and cycling contribute to the lack of cobalamins in the surface cobalt‐binding ligand pool in the North Pacific11
Contrasting impacts of warming and browning on periphyton11
Reconstructing life‐time reproductive histories using steroid hormones in cephalopod beaks11
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Decadal warming has intensified Microcystis‐dominated cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie11
Direct contribution of invertebrate holobionts to methane release from coastal sediments11
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Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning11
A model of near‐sea ice phytoplankton blooms10
Bifurcate responses of tidal range to sea‐level rise in estuaries with marsh evolution10
Effects of seagrass overgrazing on sediment erosion and carbon sink capacity: Current understanding and future priorities10
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Dissolved organic matter offsets the detrimental effects of climate change in the nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera10
Variable phenology but consistent loss of ice cover on 1213 Minnesota lakes9
Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome9
Concurrent global change and marine heatwaves disturb phototrophic more than heterotrophic protist diversity9
Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO2 equilibration for marine CO2 removal9
Tributary chloride loading into Lake Michigan9
Extreme value distributions describe interannual variability in the seasonal North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom9
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Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on inland urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export9
Tagging of water masses with covariance of trace metals and prokaryotic taxa in the Southern Ocean9
Polyphosphate phosphorus in the Great Lakes9
Unexpected mismatches in population structure among marine mussel life‐history stages reveal the true scales of planktonic larval dispersal9
Earlier ice melt increases hypolimnetic oxygen despite regional warming in small Arctic lakes9
Climate‐influenced phenology of larval fish transport in a large lake9
A case for addressing the unresolved role of permeable shelf sediments in ocean denitrification8
Estimating ocean net primary productivity from daily cycles of carbon biomass measured by profiling floats8
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Impacts of residential fertilizer ordinances on Florida lacustrine water quality8
MacroSheds: A synthesis of long‐term biogeochemical, hydroclimatic, and geospatial data from small watershed ecosystem studies8
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
Assessing N2 fixation flux and its controlling factors in the (sub)tropical western North Pacific through high‐resolution observations8
Establishing fluvial silicon regimes and their stability across the Northern Hemisphere7
Correction to “Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean”7
Tracking freshwater browning and coastal water darkening from boreal forests to the Arctic Ocean7
Phytoplankton as indicators of global warming?7
Light and nutrients modulate the temperature‐sensitivity of growth in phytoplankton7
Microbial methane oxidation efficiency and robustness during lake overturn7
Short wave attenuation by a kelp forest canopy7
Global Ocean dimethylsulfide photolysis rates quantified with a spectrally and vertically resolved model7
Daily surface temperatures for 185,549 lakes in the conterminous United States estimated using deep learning (1980–2020)7
A novel mechanism explaining the temperature dependence of marine unicellular nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacteria7
Understanding and predicting harmful algal blooms in a changing climate: A trait‐based framework6
High rates of carbon burial linked to autochthonous production in artificial ponds6
Unprecedented warming and salinization observed in the deep Adriatic6
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Acoustic twilight: A year‐long seafloor monitoring unveils phenological patterns in the abyssal soundscape6
Significant benthic fluxes of bioavailable dissolved amino acids to the ocean: Results from the East/Japan Sea6
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Idiosyncratic phenology of greenhouse gas emissions in a Mediterranean reservoir6
Nonlinear water clarity trends and impacts on littoral area in Minnesota lakes6
Phytoplankton antioxidant systems and their contributions to cellular elemental stoichiometry6
Hydrology, rather than wildfire burn extent, determines post‐fire organic and black carbon export from mountain rivers in central coastal California6
Groundwater‐stream connections shape the spatial pattern and rates of aquatic metabolism6
Alkalinity contributes at least a third of annual gross primary production in a deep stratified hardwater lake6
Novel sequential modeling framework improves phytoplankton biomass predictions in response to multiple environmental stressors5
Over half a century record of limnology data from Lake Powell, desert southwest United States: From reservoir filling to present day (1964–2021)5
Potential drivers and consequences of regional phosphate depletion in the western subtropical North Pacific5
Coastal acidification alters estuarine sediment nitrous oxide and methane fluxes5
Phosphorus limitation determines the quality of dissolved organic matter released by marine heterotrophic prokaryotes5
Sink or break: Oil increases resistance of phytoplankton aggregates to fragmentation5
Spatially varying plankton synchrony patterns at seasonal and interannual scales in a well‐connected shelf sea5
Leaf litter breakdown phenology in headwater stream networks is modulated by groundwater thermal regimes and litter type5
Integrating siphonophores into marine food‐web ecology5
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Deep‐learning‐powered data analysis in plankton ecology5
Particulate organic carbon sedimentation triggers lagged methane emissions in a eutrophic reservoir5
Pore‐water exchange flushes blue carbon from intertidal saltmarsh sediments into the sea5
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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
Knowing your limits: Patterns and drivers of nutrient limitation and nutrient–chlorophyll relationships in US lakes5
Drivers of dissolved organic matter processing in subterranean estuaries5
Risk to native marine macroalgae from land‐use and climate change‐related modifications to groundwater discharge in Hawaiʻi5
Unraveling Lake Geneva's hypoxia crisis in the Anthropocene5
Sustained upward groundwater discharge through salt marsh tidal creeks5
Low‐molecular‐weight reduced sulfur substances: A major component of nonvolatile dissolved organic sulfur in the Pacific Ocean5
Forecasting climate and human alterations to coastal and estuarine dissolved organic matter4
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Evidence of partial thermal compensation in natural phytoplankton assemblages4
Interpreting consequences of inadequate sampling of oceanic motions4
The elephant in the conference room: reducing the carbon footprint of aquatic science meetings4
Multiple climatic drivers increase pace and consequences of ecosystem change in the Arctic Coastal Ocean4
Relative importance of bacterivorous mixotrophs in an estuary‐coast environment4
Phytoplankton iron limitation in the Atlantic Southern Ocean driven by seasonal mixed‐layer dynamics4
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Adaptive traits of Planctomycetota bacteria to thrive in macroalgal habitats and establish mutually beneficial relationship with macroalgae4
A stream‐to‐sea experiment reveals inhibitory effects of freshwater residency on organic‐matter decomposition in the sea4
Road salt pollution shifts urban stormwater ponds toward cyanobacterial dominance4
Mesocosm experiments validate induction of Daphnia vertical migration by the fish‐derived kairomone 5α‐cyprinol sulfate4
Single‐species acute lethal toxicity tests are not predictive of relative population and community effects of two salinity types4
Disaster avoided: current state of the Baltic Sea without human intervention to reduce nutrient loads4
Snow removal cools a small dystrophic lake4
Coastal wetland adaptability to sea level rise: The neglected role of semi‐diurnal vs. diurnal tides4
Glacial meltwater drives high CH4 supersaturation in Maxwell Bay, King George Island (Southern Ocean)4
Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community‐level salt tolerance4
Catastrophic bleaching in protected reefs of the Southern Great Barrier Reef4
Aquatic heatwaves increase surface chlorophyll concentrations in experimental and reference lakes4
Some considerations of measuring temperature sensitivity in thermal ecology4
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