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1970 • 377 citations

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1976 • 352 citations

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1972 • 279 citations

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1980 • 256 citations

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1975 • 235 citations

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1974 • 179 citations

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1976 • 178 citations

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1974 • 167 citations

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1980 • 79 citations

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1977 • 68 citations

Leaf-shredding Insects as a Source of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Headwater Streams

1983 • 68 citations

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1981 • 68 citations

Microbial Synthesis of Detritus-Like Particulates from Dissolved Organic Carbon Released by Tropical Seagrasses

1982 • 64 citations

Phycomycetes (Phytophthora spp. nov. and Pythium sp. nov.) associated with degrading mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) leaves

1975 • 64 citations

Ecology of juvenile and adolescent banana prawns, Penaeus merguiensis, in a mangrove estuary and adjacent off-shore area of the Gulf of Carpentaria. I. Immigration and settlement of postlarvae

1980 • 57 citations

Breeding of Euterpina acutifrons, a harpacticid copepod, with special reference to dimorphic males

1972 • 57 citations

Heterotrophic Utilisation of Particulate Matter from the Kelp Laminaria pallida

1981 • 56 citations

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1980 • 53 citations

Surface-film microheterotrophs: amino acid metabolism and solar radiation effects on their activities

1985 • 51 citations

The significance of the surface film in salt marsh plankton metabolism1

1975 • 48 citations

The uptake of dissolved organic matter by a small spring stream

1978 • 47 citations

Release of dissolved organic matter by autolysis of a submersed macrophyte, Scirpus subterminalis1

1974 • 43 citations

Bacterial production and carbon conversion based on saltmarsh plant debris

1983 • 42 citations

Ingestion rate of a selective deposit feeder in a complex mixture of particles: Testing the energy‐optimization hypothesis1

1979 • 39 citations

Formation of particulate organic carbon in water from a southeastern swamp‐stream1

1981 • 38 citations

FLUX OF ORGANIC MATTER THROUGH A SALT MARSH11This work has been supported by grant DES72-01605-A02 from the National Science Foundation and by grants from the Sapelo Island Research Foundation. Contribution No. 298 from The University of Georgia Marine Institute.

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Laboratory experiments on eelgrass (Zostera Marina L.) decomposition

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1968 • 28 citations

Ecological aspects of the surface microlayer. I. ATP, ADP, AMP contents, and energy charge ratios of microplanktonic communities

1983 • 27 citations

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1978 • 27 citations

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1984 • 27 citations

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1976 • 3 citations