Most cited papers in Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
What are the most cited papers in Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity?
The most cited paper in Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity is "Ecological Methodology" (Geraint Parry, Michael Sylvester Johnson, R. M. Bell et al., 1984), with 5,334 citations. Next come "Cichlid Fish Diversity Threatened by Eutrophication That Curbs Sexual Selection" (1,322) and "The dry weight estimate of biomass in a selection of Cladocera, Copepoda and Rotifera from the plankton, periphyton and benthos of continental waters" (1,274).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 346 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ecological Methodology Geraint Parry, Michael Sylvester Johnson, R. M. Bell et al. | 1984 | 5,334 |
| 2 | Cichlid Fish Diversity Threatened by Eutrophication That Curbs Sexual Selection Ole Seehausen, Jacques J. M. van Alphen, Frans Witte · Science | 19 Sep 1997 | 1,322 |
| 3 | The dry weight estimate of biomass in a selection of Cladocera, Copepoda and Rotifera from the plankton, periphyton and benthos of continental waters Henri Jean Dumont, Isabella Van de Velde, Simonne Dumont · Oecologia | Mar 1975 | 1,274 |
| 4 | Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish Ole Seehausen, Yohey Terai, Isabel Santos Magalhaes et al. · Nature | Oct 2008 | 1,108 |
| 5 | Adaptive evolution and explosive speciation: the cichlid fish model Thomas D. Kocher · Nature Reviews Genetics | Apr 2004 | 1,070 |
| 6 | The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation in African cichlid fish David Brawand et al. · Nature | Sep 2014 | 1,063 |
| 7 | Human fatalities from cyanobacteria: chemical and biological evidence for cyanotoxins. Wayne W. Carmichael, Sandra M. F. O. Azevedo, Jusheng An et al. · Environmental Health Perspectives | Jul 2001 | 1,016 |
| 8 | A Drinking Water Crisis in Lake Taihu, China: Linkage to Climatic Variability and Lake Management Boqiang Qin, Guangwei Zhu, Guang Gao et al. · Environmental Management | 13 Nov 2009 | 995 |
| 9 | Total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and nutrient limitation in lakes and oceans: Is there a common relationship? Stephanie J. Guildford, Robert E. Hecky · Limnology and Oceanography | Sep 2000 | 960 |
| 10 | Monophyletic origin of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes suggested by mitochondrial DNA sequences Axel Meyer, Thomas D. Kocher, Pereti Basasibwaki et al. · Nature | Oct 1990 | 958 |
| 11 | Stable isotope evidence for the food web consequences of species invasions in lakes M. Jake Vander Zanden, John M. Casselman, Joseph B. Rasmussen · Nature | Sep 1999 | 905 |
| 12 | The Management of Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems Louis W. Botsford, Juan Carlos Castilla, Charles H. Peterson · Science | 25 Jul 1997 | 897 |
| 13 | CLIMATE CHANGE UNCOUPLES TROPHIC INTERACTIONS IN AN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM Monika Winder, Daniel E. Schindler · Ecology | Aug 2004 | 861 |
| 14 | Population structure in Daphnia obtusa: quantitative genetic and allozymic variation. K Spitze · Genetics | Oct 1993 | 845 |
| 15 | Human intoxication by microcystins during renal dialysis treatment in Caruaru—Brazil Sandra M. F. O. Azevedo, Wayne W. Carmichael, Elise M. Jochimsen et al. · Toxicology | Dec 2002 | 828 |
| 16 | African cichlid fish: a model system in adaptive radiation research Ole Seehausen · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 9 May 2006 | 810 |
| 17 | Competition in Tropical Stream Fishes: Support for the Competitive Exclusion Principle Thomas M. Zaret, A. Stanley Rand · Ecology | Mar 1971 | 761 |
| 18 | Chemiosmotic Mechanism of Antimicrobial Activity of Ag + in Vibrio cholerae Pavel A. Dibrov, Judith Dzioba, Khoosheh K. Gosink et al. · Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 28 Jul 2002 | 742 |
| 19 | Overfishing of Inland Waters J. David Allan, Robin Abell, Zeb S. Hogan et al. · BioScience | 2005 | 741 |
| 20 | Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika, Africa Catherine M. O’Reilly, Simone R. Alin, Pierre‐Denis Plisnier et al. · Nature | Aug 2003 | 738 |
| 21 | Vertical migration in zooplankton as a predator avoidance mechanism1 Thomas M. Zaret, J.S. Suffern · Limnology and Oceanography | Nov 1976 | 724 |
| 22 | Exchange of phosphorus across the sediment-water interface Bengt Boström, Jens Møller Andersen, Siegfried Fleischer et al. · Hydrobiologia | Dec 1988 | 719 |
| 23 | Shallow lakes theory revisited: various alternative regimes driven by climate, nutrients, depth and lake size Marten Scheffer, Egbert H. van Nes · Hydrobiologia | 17 May 2007 | 715 |
| 24 | The dilemma of controlling cultural eutrophication of lakes David W. Schindler · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 22 Aug 2012 | 708 |
| 25 | A Classification of Major Naturally-Occurring Amazonian Lowland Wetlands Wolfgang Johannes Junk, María Teresa Fernández Piedade, Jochen Schöngart et al. · Wetlands | 7 Jul 2011 | 706 |
| 26 | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY SIZE OF FILTER‐FEEDING CLADOCERA AND THE MAXIMUM SIZE OF PARTICLE INGESTED Carolyn W. Burns · Limnology and Oceanography | Oct 1968 | 669 |
| 27 | Health impacts from cyanobacteria harmful algae blooms: Implications for the North American Great Lakes Wayne W. Carmichael, Gregory L. Boyer · Harmful Algae | Apr 2016 | 660 |
| 28 | Long-term dynamics of phytoplankton assemblages: Microcystis-domination in Lake Taihu, a large shallow lake in China Ye Chen · Journal of Plankton Research | Apr 2003 | 633 |
| 29 | Ecological and socio‐economic impacts of invasive water hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes ): a review Amy M. Villamagna, Brian R. Murphy · Freshwater Biology | 27 Aug 2009 | 632 |
| 30 | Fortress Conservation: The Preservation of the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania Jim Igoe, Dan Brockington · The International Journal of African Historical Studies | 2002 | 625 |
| 31 | The Chemical Composition of African Lake Waters Jack F. Talling, Ida B. Talling · Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie und Hydrographie | 1965 | 606 |
| 32 | Delayed germination and dispersal in desert annuals: Escape in space and time D. Lawrence Venable, Lawrence R. Lawlor · Oecologia | 1980 | 589 |
| 33 | Hepatotoxic Cyanobacteria: A Review of the Biological Importance of Microcystins in Freshwater Environments Ron W. Zurawell, Huirong Chen, Janice M. Burke et al. · Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part B | 14 Dec 2005 | 587 |
| 34 | Late Pleistocene Desiccation of Lake Victoria and Rapid Evolution of Cichlid Fishes Thomas C. Johnson, Christopher A. Scholz, Michael R. Talbot et al. · Science | 23 Aug 1996 | 567 |
| 35 | Comanagement of coral reef social-ecological systems Joshua E. Cinner, Tim R. McClanahan, M. Aaron MacNeil et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 19 Mar 2012 | 557 |
| 36 | The effects of introduced tilapias on native biodiversity Gabrielle Canonico, Angela H. Arthington, Jeffrey K. McCrary et al. · Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems | Sep 2005 | 541 |
| 37 | Two-Decade Reconstruction of Algal Blooms in China’s Lake Taihu Hongtao Duan, Ronghua Ma, Xiaofeng Xu et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | 8 Apr 2009 | 534 |
| 38 | Ecological opportunity and sexual selection together predict adaptive radiation Catherine E. Wagner, Luke J. Harmon, Ole Seehausen · Nature | 8 Jun 2012 | 527 |
| 39 | Serengeti II: Dynamics, management, and conservation of an ecosystem Nigel Leader‐Williams · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Apr 1996 | 502 |
| 40 | Effects of seasonality and fish movement on tropical river food webs Kirk Owen Winemiller, David B. Jepsen · Journal of Fish Biology | Dec 1998 | 497 |
| 41 | The destruction of an endemic species flock: quantitative data on the decline of the haplochromine cichlids of Lake Victoria Frans Witte, Tijs Goldschmidt, Jan H. Wanink et al. · Environmental Biology of Fishes | May 1992 | 496 |
| 42 | Ecosystem services provided by waterbirds Andy J. Green, Johan Elmberg · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | 21 Jun 2013 | 490 |
| 43 | Predator evasion as an explanation of diurnal vertical migration by zooplankton Hans‐Bernd Stich, Winfried Lampert · Nature | Oct 1981 | 477 |
| 44 | Disrupting biogeochemical cycles - Consequences of damming Gabriela Friedl, Alfred Wüest · Aquatic Sciences | Apr 2002 | 474 |
| 45 | Genomic islands of speciation separate cichlid ecomorphs in an East African crater lake Milan Malinsky, RICHARD J. CHALLIS, Alexandra M. Tyers et al. · Science | 17 Dec 2015 | 468 |
| 46 | The effect of male coloration on female mate choice in closely related Lake Victoria cichlids ( Haplochromis nyererei complex) Ole Seehausen, Jacques J. M. van Alphen · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 22 Jan 1998 | 466 |
| 47 | First Identification of the Hepatotoxic Microcystins in the Serum of a Chronically Exposed Human Population Together with Indication of Hepatocellular Damage Jun Chen, Ping Xie, Li Li et al. · Toxicological Sciences | 16 Jan 2009 | 457 |
| 48 | Introduction of non‐native freshwater fish can certainly be bad Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule, Carolina A. Freire, Daniel Simberloff · Fish and Fisheries | 15 Jan 2009 | 447 |
| 49 | Rapid evolution revealed by dormant eggs Nelson G. Hairston, Winfried Lampert, Carla E. Cáceres et al. · Nature | 30 Sep 1999 | 442 |
| 50 | A complete guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Southern Africa Mike Coke · African Journal of Aquatic Science | 2002 | 440 |
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