Most-cited papers on seasonal variations microbial temporal contamination

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1. Spatial and seasonal variation in diversity and structure of microbial biofilms on marine plastics in Northern European waters

   2014 · FEMS Microbiology Ecology · Oberbeckmann, Sonja, Loeder, Martin G. J., Gerdts, Gunnar et al.

   524 cited

2. Seasonal Variations of Indoor Microbial Exposures and Their Relation to Temperature, Relative Humidity, and Air Exchange Rate

   2012 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · Frankel, Mika, Bekö, Gabriel, Timm, Michael et al.

   275 cited

3. Seasonal Variations in Microbial Populations and Environmental Conditions in an Extreme Acid Mine Drainage Environment

   1999 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · Edwards, Katrina J., Gihring, Thomas M., Banfield, Jillian F.

   233 cited

4. Metagenomic analysis on seasonal microbial variations of activated sludge from a full‐scale wastewater treatment plant over 4 years

   2013 · Environmental Microbiology Reports · Ju, Feng, Guo, Feng, Ye, Lin et al.

   197 cited

5. Seasonal variation of soil microbial biomass—The effects of clearfelling a tropical rainforest and establishment of pasture in the central Amazon

   1992 · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · Luizão, Regina C. C., Bonde, Torben A., Rosswall, T.

   192 cited

6. Seasonal variation characteristic of inhalable microbial communities in PM2.5 in Beijing city, China

   2017 · The Science of The Total Environment · Du, Pengrui, Du, Rui, Ren, Weishan et al.

   188 cited

7. Successional and seasonal variations in soil and litter microbial community structure and function during tropical postagricultural forest regeneration: a multiyear study

   2015 · Global Change Biology · Smith, A. Peyton, Marín-Spiotta, E., Balser, Teri C.

   181 cited

8. Spatial and seasonal variation of gross nitrogen transformations and microbial biomass in a Northeastern US grassland

   2002 · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · Corre, Marife D., Schnabel, R. R., Stout, W. L.

   172 cited

9. Seasonal variation in functional properties of microbial communities in beech forest soil

   2013 · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · Koranda, Marianne, Kaiser, Christina, Fuchslueger, Lucia et al.

   169 cited

10. Seasonal and long-term resource-related variations in soil microbial communities in wheat-based rotations of the Canadian prairie

    2006 · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · Hamel, Chantal, Hanson, K.G., Selles, F. et al.

    168 cited

11. Seasonal and ontogenetic variation of skin microbial communities and relationships to natural disease dynamics in declining amphibians

    2015 · Royal Society Open Science · Longo, Ana V., Savage, Anna E., Hewson, Ian et al.

    159 cited

12. Seasonal variation of postmortem microbial communities

    2015 · Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology · Carter, David, Metcalf, Jessica L., Bibat, Alexander et al.

    136 cited

13. Temperature Characteristics of Photosynthetic and Heterotrophic Activities: Seasonal Variations in Temperate Microbial Plankton

    1987 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · Li, W. K. W., Dickie, P. M.

    126 cited

14. Microbial keratitis in Sydney, Australia: risk factors, patient outcomes, and seasonal variation

    2020 · Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology · Khoo, Pauline, Cabrera‐Aguas, Maria, Nguyen, Vuong et al.

    108 cited

15. Factors affecting seasonal variation of microbial community structure in Hulun Lake, China

    2021 · The Science of The Total Environment · Shang, Yongquan, Wu, Xiaoyang, Wang, Xibao et al.

    104 cited

16. Seasonal variations of soil microbial biomass carbon within the plough layer

    1993 · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · Kaiser, Ernst‐August, Heinemeyer, O.

    102 cited

17. Seasonal variations of soil microbial biomass and activity in warm- and cool-season turfgrass systems

    2011 · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · Yao, Huaiying, Bowman, Daniel, Shi, Wei

    100 cited

18. Seasonal variations in sugar contents and microbial community in a ryegrass soil

    2006 · Chemosphere · Medeiros, Patricia M., Fernandes, Marcelo Ferreira, Dick, Richard P. et al.

    89 cited

19. Seasonal variation of particulate organic carbon, dissolved organic carbon and the contribution of microbial communities to the live particulate organic carbon in a shallow near-bottom ecosystem at the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

    1999 · Journal of Plankton Research · Ribes, Marta, Coma, Rafel, Gili, Josep María

    88 cited

20. Above- and belowground carbon inputs affect seasonal variations of soil microbial biomass in a subtropical monsoon forest of southwest China

    2008 · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · Feng, Wenting, Zou, Xiaoming, Schaefer, Douglas

    86 cited

21. Food chain structure of the North Sea plankton communities: seasonal variations of the role of the microbial loop

    1989 · Marine Ecology Progress Series · Nielsen, Torkel Gissel, Richardson, Katherine

    81 cited

22. Seasonal variations in the dynamics of microbial plankton communities: first estimates from experiments in the Gulf of Trieste, Northern Adriatic Sea

    2003 · Marine Ecology Progress Series · Umani, Serena Fonda, Beran, Alfred

    79 cited

23. Seasonal variation and distribution of total and active microbial community of β-glucosidase encoding genes in coniferous forest soil

    2016 · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · Pathan, Shamina Imran, Žifčáková, Lucia, Ceccherini, Maria Teresa et al.

    74 cited

24. Effect of land management and soil texture on seasonal variations in soil microbial biomass in dry tropical agroecosystems in Tanzania

    2009 · Applied Soil Ecology · Sugihara, Soh, Funakawa, Shinya, Kilasara, Method et al.

    73 cited

25. Seasonal variation of microbial biomass, activity, and community structure in soil under different tillage and phosphorus management practices

    2013 · Biology and Fertility of Soils · Shi, Yichao, Lalande, Roger, Hamel, Chantal et al.

    69 cited

26. Chemical and microbial components of urban air PM cause seasonal variation of toxicological activity

    2015 · Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology · Jalava, Pasi, Happo, Mikko S., Huttunen, Kati et al.

    66 cited

27. Seasonal variations of D/H and 13C/12C ratios of microbial methane in surface sediments

    1988 · Nature · Burke, Roger A., Martens, Christopher S., Sackett, William M.

    66 cited

28. Soil microbial biomass during the early establishment of hoop pine plantation: seasonal variation and impacts of site preparation

    2003 · Forest Ecology and Management · Chen, Chengrong, Xu, Zhihong, Blumfield, Timothy J. et al.

    64 cited

29. Soil contamination with antibiotics in a typical peri-urban area in eastern China: Seasonal variation, risk assessment, and microbial responses

    2018 · Journal of Environmental Sciences · Zhao, Fangkai, Yang, Lei, Chen, Liding et al.

    61 cited

30. Seasonal variations of microbial abundances and virus- versus flagellate-induced mortality of picoplankton in three peri-alpine lakes

    2009 · Journal of Plankton Research · Personnic, Sébastien, Domaizon, Isabelle, Sime‐Ngando, Télesphore et al.

    58 cited