| Ecosystem responses to internal and watershed organic matter loading: consequences for hypoxia in the eutrophying Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, USA HW Paerl, JL Pinckney, JM Fear, BL Peierls Marine Ecology Progress Series 166, 17-25, 1998 | 660 | 1998 |
| Human influence on river nitrogen BL Peierls, NF Caraco, ML Pace, JJ Cole Nature 350 (6317), 386-387, 1991 | 446 | 1991 |
| Anthropogenic and climatic influences on the eutrophication of large estuarine ecosystems HW Paerl, LM Valdes, BL Peierls, JE Adolf, LJW Harding Limnology and Oceanography 51 (1part2), 448-462, 2006 | 384 | 2006 |
| Ecosystem impacts of three sequential hurricanes (Dennis, Floyd, and Irene) on the United States' largest lagoonal estuary, Pamlico Sound, NC HW Paerl, JD Bales, LW Ausley, CP Buzzelli, LB Crowder, LA Eby, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (10), 5655-5660, 2001 | 345 | 2001 |
| Can phytoplankton maintaina positive carbon balance in a turbid, freshwater, tidal estuary? JJ Cole, NF Caraco, BL Peierls Limnology and Oceanography 37 (8), 1608-1617, 1992 | 340 | 1992 |
| Weak coupling of bacterial and algal production in a heterotrophic ecosystem: the Hudson River estuary S Findlay, ML Pace, D Lints, JJ Cole, NF Caraco, B Peierls Limnology and Oceanography 36 (2), 268-278, 1991 | 307 | 1991 |
| Evolving paradigms and challenges in estuarine and coastal eutrophication dynamics in a culturally and climatically stressed world HW Paerl, NS Hall, BL Peierls, KL Rossignol Estuaries and coasts 37 (2), 243-258, 2014 | 291 | 2014 |
| Phytoplankton community indicators of short-and long-term ecological change in the anthropogenically and climatically impacted Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, USA HW Paerl, KL Rossignol, SN Hall, BL Peierls, MS Wetz Estuaries and Coasts 33 (2), 485-497, 2010 | 218 | 2010 |
| Nitrogen loading of rivers as a human-driven process JJ Cole, BL Peierls, NF Caraco, ML Pace Humans as components of ecosystems, 141-157, 1993 | 207 | 1993 |
| Algal blooms: noteworthy nitrogen HW Paerl, WS Gardner, MJ McCarthy, BL Peierls, SW Wilhelm Science 346 (6206), 175-175, 2014 | 192 | 2014 |
| Bioavailability of atmospheric organic nitrogen deposition to coastal phytoplankton BL Peierls, HW Paerl Limnology and Oceanography 42 (8), 1819-1823, 1997 | 191 | 1997 |
| Water quality and phytoplankton as indicators of hurricane impacts on a large estuarine ecosystem BL Peierls, RR Christian, HW Paerl Estuaries 26 (5), 1329-1343, 2003 | 163 | 2003 |
| Nitrogen loading sources and eutrophication of the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina: Direct and indirect roles of atmospheric deposition HW Paerl, MA Mallin, CA Donahue, M Go, BL Peierls Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina, 1995 | 137 | 1995 |
| Predicting sources of dissolved organic nitrogen to an estuary from an agro-urban coastal watershed CL Osburn, LT Handsel, BL Peierls, HW Paerl Environmental science & technology 50 (16), 8473-8484, 2016 | 128 | 2016 |
| Ecological response to hurricane events in the Pamlico Sound system, North Carolina, and implications for assessment and management in a regime of increased frequency HW Paerl, LM Valdes, AR Joyner, BL Peierls, MF Piehler, SR Riggs, ... Estuaries and Coasts 29 (6), 1033-1045, 2006 | 126 | 2006 |
| Non-monotonic responses of phytoplankton biomass accumulation to hydrologic variability: a comparison of two coastal plain North Carolina estuaries BL Peierls, NS Hall, HW Paerl Estuaries and coasts 35 (6), 1376-1392, 2012 | 120 | 2012 |
| Hydrologic variability and its control of phytoplankton community structure and function in two shallow, coastal, lagoonal ecosystems: the Neuse and New River Estuaries, North … HW Paerl, NS Hall, BL Peierls, KL Rossignol, AR Joyner Estuaries and Coasts 37 (1), 31-45, 2014 | 97 | 2014 |
| Effects of climatic variability on phytoplankton community structure and bloom development in the eutrophic, microtidal, New River Estuary, North Carolina, USA NS Hall, HW Paerl, BL Peierls, AC Whipple, KL Rossignol Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 117, 70-82, 2013 | 95 | 2013 |
| Rainfall stimulation of primary production in western Atlantic Ocean waters: roles of different nitrogen sources and co-limiting nutrients HW Paerl, JD Willey, M Go, BL Peierls, JL Pinckney, ML Fogel Marine Ecology Progress Series 176, 205-214, 1999 | 94 | 1999 |
| A functional definition to distinguish ponds from lakes and wetlands DC Richardson, MA Holgerson, MJ Farragher, KK Hoffman, K King, ... Scientific reports 12 (1), 1-13, 2022 | 60 | 2022 |
