| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 2 | Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria) | PLoS ONE | 2008 | 268 |
| 3 | Effect of increased atmospheric CO2on shallow water marine benthos | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2005 | 215 |
| 4 | Fluctuating interaction network and time-varying stability of a natural fish community | Nature | 2018 | 209 |
| 5 | Nematomorph parasites indirectly alter the food web and ecosystem function of streams through behavioural manipulation of their cricket hosts | Ecology Letters | 2012 | 113 |
| 6 | Dispersion and degradation of environmental DNA from caged fish in a marine environment | Fisheries Science | 2019 | 102 |
| 7 | An illustrated manual for environmental DNA research: Water sampling guidelines and experimental protocols | Environmental DNA | 2021 | 102 |
| 8 | Salt-wedge intrusion of seawater and its implication for phytoplankton dynamics in the Yura Estuary, Japan | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 2010 | 87 |
| 9 | Effects of temperature and delayed initial feeding on the survival and growth of Japanese flounder larvae | Journal of Fish Biology | 2005 | 76 |
| 10 | Natural 15 N Abundance of Plants and Soil N in a Temperate Coniferous Forest | Ecosystems | 2003 | 75 |
| 11 | Factors contributing to soil nitrogen mineralization and nitrification rates of forest soils in the Japanese archipelago | Forest Ecology and Management | 2016 | 71 |
| 12 | Impacts of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) invasion on dry matter and carbon and nitrogen stocks in a broad‐leaved secondary forest located in Kyoto, western Japan | Plant Species Biology | 2015 | 70 |
| 13 | Novel Group I Introns Encoding a Putative Homing Endonuclease in the Mitochondrial cox1 Gene of Scleractinian Corals | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 2007 | 66 |
| 14 | Consequence of altered nitrogen cycles in the coupled human and ecological system under changing climate: The need for long-term and site-based research | Ambio | 2015 | 63 |
| 15 | Estimation of radioactive 137-cesium transportation by litterfall, stemflow and throughfall in the forests of Fukushima | Journal of Environmental Radioactivity | 2015 | 61 |
| 16 | Consequences of microbial diversity in forest nitrogen cycling: diverse ammonifiers and specialized ammonia oxidizers | ISME Journal | 2020 | 61 |
| 17 | Global trends in aquatic animal tracking with acoustic telemetry | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2022 | 60 |
| 18 | Effect of low dissolved oxygen concentrations on behavior and predation rates on red sea bream Pagrus major larvae by the jellyfish Aurelia aurita and by juvenile Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus niphonius | Marine Biology | 2005 | 58 |
| 19 | Animal-mounted gyroscope/accelerometer/magnetometer: In situ measurement of the movement performance of fast-start behaviour in fish | Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | 2014 | 57 |
| 20 | Distribution and diets of larval and juvenile fishes: Influence of salinity gradient and turbidity maximum in a temperate estuary in upper Ariake Bay, Japan | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 2006 | 56 |
| 21 | Fluorescent characteristics of dissolved organic matter produced by bloom-forming coastal phytoplankton | Journal of Plankton Research | 2014 | 56 |
| 22 | Efficacy of generic allometric equations for estimating biomass: a test in Japanese natural forests | Ecological Applications | 2015 | 56 |
| 23 | Production of symmetrical flatfish by controlling the timing of thyroid hormone treatment in spotted halibut Verasper variegatus | General and Comparative Endocrinology | 2005 | 54 |
| 24 | Seasonal Changes in Submarine Groundwater Discharge and Associated Nutrient Transport into a Tideless Semi-enclosed Embayment (Obama Bay, Japan) | Estuaries and Coasts | 2016 | 54 |
| 25 | Lethality of increasing CO2 levels on deep-sea copepods in the western North Pacific | Journal of Oceanography | 2006 | 53 |
| 26 | Tiny Sea Anemone from the Lower Cambrian of China | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 53 |
| 27 | Effects of seawater pH on growth and skeletal U/Ca ratios ofAcropora digitiferacoral polyps | Geophysical Research Letters | 2011 | 52 |
| 28 | Photochemical, microbial and metal complexation behavior of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in the aquatic environments | Geochemical Journal | 2011 | 52 |
| 29 | Estimating shedding and decay rates of environmental nuclear DNA with relation to water temperature and biomass | Environmental DNA | 2020 | 52 |
| 30 | Influence of salt-wedge intrusion on ecological processes at lower trophic levels in the Yura Estuary, Japan | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 2014 | 50 |
| 31 | The effect of a freeze–thaw cycle on dissolved nitrogen dynamics and its relation to dissolved organic matter and soil microbial biomass in the soil of a northern hardwood forest | Biogeochemistry | 2019 | 50 |
| 32 | Estimating fish population abundance by integrating quantitative data on environmental DNA and hydrodynamic modelling | Molecular Ecology | 2021 | 50 |
| 33 | Spatial and seasonal variations in copepod communities related to turbidity maximum along the Chikugo estuarine gradient in the upper Ariake Bay, Japan | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 2006 | 49 |
| 34 | Species in the genus Turritopsis (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa): a molecular evaluation | Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research | 2007 | 49 |
| 35 | Forest stand structure, composition, and dynamics in 34 sites over Japan | Ecological Research | 2011 | 48 |
| 36 | Stable nitrogen isotopic composition of amino acids reveals food web structure in stream ecosystems | Oecologia | 2014 | 47 |
| 37 | Particle Size Distribution of Environmental DNA from the Nuclei of Marine Fish | Environmental Science & Technology | 2019 | 46 |
| 38 | Biogeochemical nitrogen properties of forest soils in the Japanese archipelago | Ecological Research | 2015 | 44 |
| 39 | Gross nitrification rates in four Japanese forest soils: heterotrophic versus autotrophic and the regulation factors for the nitrification | Journal of Forest Research | 2011 | 43 |
| 40 | Early Development of the Japanese Spiny Oyster (Saccostrea kegaki): Characterization of Some Genetic Markers | Zoological Science | 2008 | 42 |
| 41 | Contrasting the early life histories of sympatric Arctic gadids Boreogadus saida and Arctogadus glacialis in the Canadian Beaufort Sea | Polar Biology | 2016 | 42 |
| 42 | The Impacts of Soil Fertility and Salinity on Soil Nitrogen Dynamics Mediated by the Soil Microbial Community Beneath the Halophytic Shrub Tamarisk | Microbial Ecology | 2018 | 39 |
| 43 | Ontogenetic changes in RNA, DNA and protein contents of laboratory-reared Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus�orientalis | Fisheries Science | 2007 | 38 |
| 44 | Evolution of Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan populations of the gobiid species, Pterogobius elapoides and Pterogobius zonoleucus, based on molecular and morphological analyses | Gene | 2008 | 38 |
| 45 | Genetic and morphological evidence for cryptic diversity in the Careproctus rastrinus species complex (Liparidae) of the North Pacific | Ichthyological Research | 2011 | 38 |
| 46 | Early Cambrian Pentamerous Cubozoan Embryos from South China | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 38 |
| 47 | Seasonal Effects on Microbial Community Structure and Nitrogen Dynamics in Temperate Forest Soil | Forests | 2018 | 37 |
| 48 | Genetic tagging of released Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) based on polymorphic DNA markers | Aquaculture | 2005 | 36 |
| 49 | The effect of temperature on environmental DNA degradation of Japanese eel | Fisheries Science | 2020 | 36 |
| 50 | Distinctive stable isotope ratios in important zooplankton species in relation to estuarine salinity gradients: Potential tracer of fish migration | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 2008 | 35 |
