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| 2 | Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity | Nature | 2017 | 882 |
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| 4 | Controlling harmful cyanobacterial blooms in a hyper-eutrophic lake (Lake Taihu, China): The need for a dual nutrient (N & P) management strategy | Water Research | 2011 | 841 |
| 5 | Freezing Resistance in Some Antarctic Fishes | Science | 1969 | 573 |
| 6 | Impacts of permafrost degradation on arctic river biogeochemistry | Hydrological Processes | 2009 | 534 |
| 7 | High rates of N2 fixation by unicellular diazotrophs in the oligotrophic Pacific Ocean | Nature | 2004 | 511 |
| 8 | It Takes Two to Tango: When and Where Dual Nutrient (N & P) Reductions Are Needed to Protect Lakes and Downstream Ecosystems | Environmental Science & Technology | 2016 | 483 |
| 9 | Mitigating cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in aquatic ecosystems impacted by climate change and anthropogenic nutrients | Harmful Algae | 2016 | 453 |
| 10 | Environmental parasitology: What can parasites tell us about human impacts on the environment? | Parasitology Today | 1997 | 427 |
| 11 | Evidence for the Role of Infectious Disease in Species Extinction and Endangerment | Conservation Biology | 2006 | 419 |
| 12 | Mechanisms and Rates of Decay of Marine Viruses in Seawater | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1992 | 413 |
| 13 | The significance of viruses to mortality in aquatic microbial communities | Microbial Ecology | 1994 | 379 |
| 14 | A Methanotrophic Marine Molluscan (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) Symbiosis: Mussels Fueled by Gas | Science | 1986 | 371 |
| 15 | Magmatic and amagmatic seafloor generation at the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean | Nature | 2003 | 366 |
| 16 | Adhesion a la Moule | Integrative and Comparative Biology | 2002 | 356 |
| 17 | Early diagenesis of vascular plant tissues: Lignin and cutin decomposition and biogeochemical implications | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1995 | 354 |
| 18 | Photochemical and microbial consumption of dissolved organic carbon and dissolved oxygen in the Amazon River system | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1996 | 332 |
| 19 | Host diversity begets parasite diversity: bird final hosts and trematodes in snail intermediate hosts | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2005 | 330 |
| 20 | Deep-Sea Hydrocarbon Seep Communities: Evidence for Energy and Nutritional Carbon Sources | Science | 1987 | 310 |
| 21 | Dynamics and Distribution of Cyanophages and Their Effect on Marine Synechococcus spp | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1994 | 310 |
| 22 | COMPETITION FOR SHELTER SPACE CAUSES DENSITY-DEPENDENT PREDATION MORTALITY IN DAMSELFISHES | Ecology | 2002 | 309 |
| 23 | Marine phosphorus is selectively remineralized | Nature | 1998 | 306 |
| 24 | EFFECTS OF POPULATION DENSITY ON INDIVIDUAL GROWTH OF BROWN TROUT IN STREAMS | Ecology | 1999 | 296 |
| 25 | How should environmental stress affect the population dynamics of disease? | Ecology Letters | 2003 | 290 |
| 26 | Development of predator defences in fishes | Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries | 1994 | 287 |
| 27 | Experimental strategies to assess the biological ramifications of multiple drivers of global ocean change—A review | Global Change Biology | 2018 | 285 |
| 28 | Mechanistic interpretation of carbon isotope discrimination by marine macroalgae and seagrasses | Functional Plant Biology | 2002 | 284 |
| 29 | The Elusive Baseline of Marine Disease: Are Diseases in Ocean Ecosystems Increasing? | PLoS Biology | 2004 | 277 |
| 30 | Influence of water-column anoxia on the elemental fractionation of carbon and phosphorus during sediment diagenesis | Marine Geology | 1997 | 272 |
| 31 | Chemical composition of dissolved organic nitrogen in the ocean | Nature | 1997 | 271 |
| 32 | Recruitment and metamorphosis of Haliotis larvae induced by molecules uniquely available at the surfaces of crustose red algae | Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | 1984 | 266 |
| 33 | Diversity, ecology and evolution of Archaea | Nature Microbiology | 2020 | 262 |
| 34 | Remote sensing of coral reefs and their physical environment | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2004 | 259 |
| 35 | APPLYING ECOLOGICAL CRITERIA TO MARINE RESERVE DESIGN: A CASE STUDY FROM THE CALIFORNIA CHANNEL ISLANDS | | 2003 | 258 |
| 36 | Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes | PLoS Biology | 2011 | 249 |
| 37 | The cost of foraging by a marine predator, the Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddellii: pricing by the stroke | Journal of Experimental Biology | 2004 | 229 |
| 38 | The tube cement of Phragmatopoma californica: a solid foam | Journal of Experimental Biology | 2004 | 228 |
| 39 | Herbivory, Connectivity, and Ecosystem Resilience: Response of a Coral Reef to a Large-Scale Perturbation | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 223 |
| 40 | Local genomic adaptation of coral reef-associated microbiomes to gradients of natural variability and anthropogenic stressors | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 220 |
| 41 | Magnitude and oxidation potential of hydrocarbon gases released from the BP oil well blowout | Nature Geoscience | 2011 | 214 |
| 42 | Discovery of abundant hydrothermal venting on the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel ridge in the Arctic Ocean | Nature | 2003 | 206 |
| 43 | Flow‐weighted values of runoff tracers (δ18O, DOC, Ba, alkalinity) from the six largest Arctic rivers | Geophysical Research Letters | 2008 | 206 |
| 44 | Expansive microbial metabolic versatility and biodiversity in dynamic Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments | Nature Communications | 2018 | 205 |
| 45 | Oxygen- and capacity-limited thermal tolerance: blurring ecology and physiology | Journal of Experimental Biology | 2018 | 204 |
| 46 | The arctic freshwater system: Changes and impacts | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2007 | 203 |
| 47 | Hydrocarbons of Blue-Green Algae: Geochemical Signfficance | Science | 1969 | 202 |
| 48 | Acute Embryonic or Juvenile Exposure to Deepwater Horizon Crude Oil Impairs the Swimming Performance of Mahi-Mahi (Coryphaena hippurus) | Environmental Science & Technology | 2014 | 200 |
| 49 | Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment | Environmental Research Letters | 2016 | 199 |
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