| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Climate change, coral bleaching and the future of the world's coral reefs | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1999 | 2,783 |
| 2 | How much wetland has the world lost? Long-term and recent trends in global wetland area | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2014 | 1,280 |
| 3 | Methods of Assessing Ovarian development in Fishes: a Review | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1990 | 575 |
| 4 | Flow variability and the ecology of large rivers | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1998 | 570 |
| 5 | Beyond BACI: Experimental designs for detecting human environmental impacts on temporal variations in natural populations | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1991 | 548 |
| 6 | Some Uses of Probability Paper in the Analysis of Size Frequency Distributions | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1954 | 512 |
| 7 | Carbon in catchments: connecting terrestrial carbon losses with aquatic metabolism | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2001 | 496 |
| 8 | Effects of climate change on fish reproduction and early life history stages | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2011 | 491 |
| 9 | Automated acoustic tracking of aquatic animals: scales, design and deployment of listening station arrays | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2006 | 483 |
| 10 | Importance of the riparian zone to the conservation and management of freshwater fish: a review | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2003 | 430 |
| 11 | Intrinsic rebound potentials of 26 species of Pacific sharks | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1998 | 374 |
| 12 | Dynamics of two populations of the humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski) | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1965 | 340 |
| 13 | A review of methodology used to measure leaf litter decomposition in lotic environments: Time to turn over an old leaf? | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1991 | 329 |
| 14 | Determining phycoerythrin and phycocyanin concentrations in aqueous crude extracts of red algae | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1985 | 323 |
| 15 | Calcified macroalgae - critical to coastal ecosystems and vulnerable to change: a review | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2009 | 310 |
| 16 | Carbonate constants for estuarine waters | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2010 | 307 |
| 17 | Statistical power and design requirements for environmental monitoring | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1991 | 299 |
| 18 | Ecological role of grapsid crabs in mangrove ecosystems: a review | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1998 | 297 |
| 19 | The 'Great Southern Reef': social, ecological and economic value of Australia's neglected kelp forests | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2016 | 285 |
| 20 | Can shark resources be harvested sustainably? A question revisited with a review of shark fisheries | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1998 | 282 |
| 21 | Origin of dissolved salts in a large, semi-arid groundwater system: Murray Basin, Australia | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2001 | 264 |
| 22 | DNA barcoding Australasian chondrichthyans: results and potential uses in conservation | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2008 | 245 |
| 23 | Predicting food consumption of fish populations as functions of mortality, food type, morphometrics, temperature and salinity | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1998 | 244 |
| 24 | A baited underwater video system for the determination of relative density of carnivorous reef fish | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2000 | 244 |
| 25 | Projected climate change in Australian marine and freshwater environments | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2011 | 242 |
| 26 | Otolith science entering the 21st century | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2005 | 239 |
| 27 | Why otoliths? Insights from inner ear physiology and fisheries biology | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2005 | 229 |
| 28 | Observational methods used in marine spatial monitoring of fishes and associated habitats: a review | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2010 | 226 |
| 29 | Large-scale dieback of mangroves in Australia | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2017 | 226 |
| 30 | Large-scale patterns of erosion and sediment transport in river networks, with examples from Australia | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2001 | 221 |
| 31 | Acidification of an estuarine tributary in eastern Australia due to drainage of acid sulfate soils | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1996 | 217 |
| 32 | The importance of research and public opinion to conservation management of sharks and rays: a synthesis | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2011 | 216 |
| 33 | Sediment-rejection mechanisms of 42 species of Australian scleractinian corals | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1992 | 211 |
| 34 | Climate change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2011 | 210 |
| 35 | The Sustainable Rivers Audit: assessing river ecosystem health in the Murray - Darling Basin, Australia | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2010 | 204 |
| 36 | Mechanisms, measurement and importance of sediment resuspension in lakes | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1995 | 196 |
| 37 | Global and local threats to coral reef functioning and existence: review and predictions | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1999 | 195 |
| 38 | Hydrodynamics of a tidal creek-mangrove swamp system. | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1980 | 194 |
| 39 | Studies on southern Australian abalone (genus Haliotis). I. Ecology of five sympatric species | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1973 | 189 |
| 40 | Monte Carlo study of the nature of the underwater light field in, and the relationships between optical properties of, turbid yellow waters | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1981 | 181 |
| 41 | Tracing sources of suspended sediment in river basins: A case study of the River Culm, Devon, UK | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1995 | 181 |
| 42 | Global extent and distribution of wetlands: trends and issues | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2018 | 181 |
| 43 | Potential effects of climate change on Australian estuaries and fish utilising estuaries: a review | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2011 | 180 |
| 44 | Global wetland inventory - current status and future priorities | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1999 | 178 |
| 45 | Migration patterns of five fish species in the Murray-Darling River system | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1983 | 173 |
| 46 | Paralytic shellfish poisons from Australian cyanobacterial blooms | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1994 | 173 |
| 47 | Sources, sinks and transformations of organic carbon in Australian floodplain rivers | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1999 | 173 |
| 48 | Yellow substance (gelbstoff) and its contribution to the attenuation of photosynthetically active radiation in some inland and coastal south-eastern Australian waters | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1976 | 171 |
| 49 | Australia's Murray - Darling Basin: freshwater ecosystem conservation options in an era of climate change | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2011 | 170 |
| 50 | What the Pelagic Stages of Coral Reef Fishes Are Doing out in Blue Water: Daytime Field Observations of Larval Behavioural Capabilities | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1996 | 169 |
