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| 1 | Mathematical formulation of the relationship between photosynthesis and light for phytoplankton | Limnology and Oceanography | 1976 | 1,704 |
| 2 | Accuracy, precision and quality control in age determination, including a review of the use and abuse of age validation methods | Journal of Fish Biology | 2001 | 1,659 |
| 3 | The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists | Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | 2005 | 1,493 |
| 4 | Present and future global distributions of the marine CyanobacteriaProchlorococcusandSynechococcus | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 1,156 |
| 5 | Trophic Cascades in a Formerly Cod-Dominated Ecosystem | Science | 2005 | 1,010 |
| 6 | Magnetic interpretation using the 3-D analytic signal | Geophysics | 1992 | 972 |
| 7 | Smallest Algae Thrive As the Arctic Ocean Freshens | Science | 2009 | 638 |
| 8 | QUANTITATIVE FATTY ACID SIGNATURE ANALYSIS: A NEW METHOD OF ESTIMATING PREDATOR DIETS | Ecological Monographs | 2004 | 578 |
| 9 | Spring algal bloom and larval fish survival | Nature | 2003 | 516 |
| 10 | Atlantic Herring: Stock Discreteness and Abundance | Science | 1982 | 495 |
| 11 | A change in the freshwater balance of the Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades | Nature | 2003 | 493 |
| 12 | Rapid freshening of the deep North Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades | Nature | 2002 | 487 |
| 13 | Increasing importance of small phytoplankton in a warmer ocean | Global Change Biology | 2010 | 485 |
| 14 | Array measurements of atmospheric pressure fluctuations above surface gravity waves | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 1981 | 478 |
| 15 | Primary production of prochlorophytes, cyanobacteria, and eucaryotic ultraphytoplankton: Measurements from flow cytometric sorting | Limnology and Oceanography | 1994 | 469 |
| 16 | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND LIGHT FOR NATURAL ASSEMBLAGES OF COASTAL MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON1 | Journal of Phycology | 1976 | 462 |
| 17 | Robust Hydrocarbon Degradation and Dynamics of Bacterial Communities during Nutrient-Enhanced Oil Spill Bioremediation | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2002 | 432 |
| 18 | The sequence of events around the epicentre of the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: initiation of debris flows and turbidity current inferred from sidescan sonar | Sedimentology | 1999 | 415 |
| 19 | Key Questions in Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2016 | 408 |
| 20 | Arctic Ocean Microbial Community Structure before and after the 2007 Record Sea Ice Minimum | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 405 |
| 21 | Variation of the sea surface drag coefficient with wind speed | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1975 | 403 |
| 22 | Sea surface wind stress and drag coefficients: The hexos results | Boundary-Layer Meteorology | 1992 | 379 |
| 23 | Comparative life histories in the genera Calanus and Neocalanus in high latitudes of the northern hemisphere | Hydrobiologia | 1988 | 369 |
| 24 | Photosynthesis of picoplankton in the oligotrophic ocean | Nature | 1983 | 361 |
| 25 | Gradient forests: calculating importance gradients on physical predictors | Ecology | 2012 | 353 |
| 26 | A sea change in our view of overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic | Science | 2019 | 353 |
| 27 | Processes That Initiate Turbidity Currents and Their Influence on Turbidites: A Marine Geology Perspective | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2009 | 320 |
| 28 | Macroecological patterns of phytoplankton in the northwestern North Atlantic Ocean | Nature | 2002 | 318 |
| 29 | Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years | Nature | 2018 | 307 |
| 30 | Turbidite depositional patterns and flow characteristics, Navy Submarine Fan, California Borderland | Sedimentology | 1983 | 302 |
| 31 | A Cretaceous and Jurassic geochronology | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1985 | 299 |
| 32 | Primary productivity of planet earth: biological determinants and physical constraints in terrestrial and aquatic habitats | Global Change Biology | 2001 | 290 |
| 33 | Translating Marine Animal Tracking Data into Conservation Policy and Management | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2019 | 286 |
| 34 | Sea-floor spreading in the Labrador Sea: A new reconstruction | Geology | 1989 | 282 |
| 35 | Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries | Nature | 2019 | 275 |
| 36 | The ups and downs of trophic control in continental shelf ecosystems | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2007 | 271 |
| 37 | On the Intermediate Depth Waters of the Arctic Ocean | Geophysical Monograph Series | 0 | 266 |
| 38 | An overview of seabed-mapping technologies in the context of marine habitat classification☆ | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2003 | 261 |
| 39 | On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array | Frontiers in Marine Science | 2019 | 261 |
| 40 | Oceanic spreading rate and crustal thickness | Marine Geophysical Researches | 1981 | 257 |
| 41 | Behavioural ecotoxicology, an “early warning” signal to assess environmental quality | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2011 | 255 |
| 42 | Remote sensing of phytoplankton pigments: A comparison of empirical and theoretical approaches | International Journal of Remote Sensing | 2001 | 245 |
| 43 | AEROBIC DECOMPOSITION OF SEDIMENT AND DETRITUS AS A FUNCTION OF PARTICLE SURFACE AREA AND ORGANIC CONTENT | Limnology and Oceanography | 1972 | 244 |
| 44 | Kinematics of the plate boundaries between Eurasia, Iberia, and Africa in the North Atlantic from the Late Cretaceous to the present | Geology | 1991 | 244 |
| 45 | Why otoliths? Insights from inner ear physiology and fisheries biology | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2005 | 240 |
| 46 | Distribution of Atlantic and Pacific waters in the upper Arctic Ocean: Implications for circulation | Geophysical Research Letters | 1998 | 236 |
| 47 | Oceanographic conditions at Ocean Weather ShipBravo, 1964–1974 | Atmosphere - Ocean | 1980 | 233 |
| 48 | The spray contribution to net evaporation from the sea: A review of recent progress | Boundary-Layer Meteorology | 1995 | 231 |
| 49 | Fukushima Daiichi–Derived Radionuclides in the Ocean: Transport, Fate, and Impacts | Annual Review of Marine Science | 2017 | 227 |
| 50 | Biogenic fluxes of carbon and oxygen in the ocean | Nature | 1985 | 226 |
