| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Ecological Role of Water-Column Microbes in the Sea | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1983 | 4,362 |
| 2 | Our evolving conceptual model of the coastal eutrophication problem | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2001 | 2,301 |
| 3 | A method of linking multivariate community structure to environmental variables | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1993 | 1,905 |
| 4 | Chemistry and composition of fish otoliths:pathways, mechanisms and applications | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1999 | 1,701 |
| 5 | Protein content and protein synthesis rates of planktonic marine bacteria | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1989 | 1,527 |
| 6 | Statistical design and analysis for a 'biological effects' study | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1988 | 1,388 |
| 7 | A Practical Strategy for Analysing Multispecies Distribution Patterns | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1982 | 1,359 |
| 8 | Bacterial production in fresh and saltwater ecosystems: a cross-system overview | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1988 | 1,223 |
| 9 | Eutrophication of Chesapeake Bay: historical trends and ecological interactions | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2005 | 1,200 |
| 10 | CHEMTAX - a program for estimating class abundances from chemical markers:application to HPLC measurements of phytoplankton | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1996 | 1,183 |
| 11 | Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: a global synthesis | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2009 | 1,111 |
| 12 | Diversity and distribution of coral-associated bacteria | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2002 | 1,080 |
| 13 | Determination of trophic relationships within a high Arctic marine food web using δ13C and δ15N analysis | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1992 | 1,004 |
| 14 | Responses of coral reefs and reef organisms to sedimentation | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1990 | 992 |
| 15 | Improved HPLC method for the analysis of chlorophylls and carotenoids from marine phytoplankton | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1991 | 978 |
| 16 | Marine epibiosis. I. Fouling and antifouling: some basic aspects | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1989 | 934 |
| 17 | Separation of chlorophylls and carotenoids from marine phytoplankton:a new HPLC method using a reversed phase C8 column and pyridine-containing mobile phases | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2000 | 897 |
| 18 | A further biodiversity index applicable to species lists: variation in taxonomic distinctness | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2001 | 816 |
| 19 | Effects of hypoxia and organic enrichment on the coastal marine environment | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2002 | 796 |
| 20 | Anthropogenic causes of jellyfish blooms and their direct consequences for humans: a review | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2007 | 794 |
| 21 | Regulation of microbial populations by coral surface mucus and mucus-associated bacteria | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2006 | 779 |
| 22 | Significance of exoenzymatic activities in the ecology of brackish water: measurements by means of methylumbelliferyl-substrates | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1983 | 767 |
| 23 | Anthropogenic and natural sources of ambient noise in the ocean | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2009 | 746 |
| 24 | Carbon-13 enrichment in benthic compared to planktonic algae:foodweb implications | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1995 | 699 |
| 25 | Critical evaluation of the nursery role hypothesis for seagrass meadows | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2003 | 699 |
| 26 | Ecosystem effects of ocean acidification in times of ocean warming: a physiologist’s view | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2008 | 697 |
| 27 | New 'biodiversity' measures reveal a decrease in taxonomic distinctness with increasing stress | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1995 | 669 |
| 28 | What is bioturbation? The need for a precise definition for fauna in aquatic sciences | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2012 | 640 |
| 29 | Predator size-prey size relationships of marine fish predators: interspecific variation and effects of ontogeny and body size on trophic-niche breadth | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2000 | 635 |
| 30 | The interaction between ammonium and nitrate uptake in phytoplankton | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1990 | 626 |
| 31 | Changing spatial distribution of fish stocks in relation to climate and population size on the Northeast United States continental shelf | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2009 | 614 |
| 32 | Dynamic model of phytoplankton growth and acclimation:responses of the balanced growth rate and the chlorophyll a:carbon ratio to light, nutrient-limitation and temperature | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1997 | 613 |
| 33 | Lipid storage in marine zooplankton | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2006 | 607 |
| 34 | Bioenergetics of the planktonic copepod Acartia tonsa: relation between feeding, egg production and respiration, and composition of specific dynamic action | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1985 | 606 |
| 35 | Silicate as regulating nutrient in phytoplankton competition | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1992 | 606 |
| 36 | Juvenile mortality in benthic marine invertebrates | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1997 | 596 |
| 37 | On the advantages and disadvantages of larval stages in benthic marine invertebrate life cycles | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1999 | 570 |
| 38 | Reproduction by Fragmentation in Corals | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1982 | 569 |
| 39 | Effects of CO2-driven ocean acidification on the early developmental stages of invertebrates | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2008 | 554 |
| 40 | Cell volume to cell carbon conversion factors for a bacterivorous Monas sp. enriched from seawater | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1987 | 544 |
| 41 | Comparative physiology of Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus: influence of light and temperature on growth, pigments, fluorescence and absorptive properties | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1995 | 542 |
| 42 | Organism life cycles, predation, and the structure of marine pelagic ecosystems | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1996 | 536 |
| 43 | Role of early post-settlement mortality in recruitment of benthic marine invertebrates | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1997 | 532 |
| 44 | Effects of long-term moderate hypercapnia on acid-base balance and growth rate in marine mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2005 | 530 |
| 45 | Shark nursery areas: concepts, definition, characterization and assumptions | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2007 | 517 |
| 46 | Seagrass nutrient content | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1990 | 515 |
| 47 | Microenvironment and photosynthesis of zooxanthellae in scleractinian corals studied with microsensors for O2, pH and light | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 1995 | 499 |
| 48 | Global analysis of response and recovery of benthic biota to fishing | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2006 | 496 |
| 49 | Eutrophication in shallow coastal bays and lagoons: the role of plants in the coastal filter | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2007 | 493 |
| 50 | Contrasts in density, size, and biomass of reef fishes between the northwestern and the main Hawaiian islands: the effects of fishing down apex predators | Marine Ecology - Progress Series | 2002 | 491 |
