| A chemoautotrophically based cave ecosystem SM Sarbu, TC Kane, BK Kinkle Science 272 (5270), 1953-1955, 1996 | 513 | 1996 |
| Acidic cave-wall biofilms located in the Frasassi Gorge, Italy L Vlasceanu, SM Sarbu, AS Engel, BK Kinkle Geomicrobiology Journal 17 (2), 125-139, 2000 | 125 | 2000 |
| Condensation corrosion in Movile cave, Romania SM Sarbu, C Lascu Journal of Caves and Karst Studies 59, 99-102, 1997 | 115 | 1997 |
| Movile Cave: a Chemoautotrophically Based Groundwater Ecosystem SM Sarbu Subterranean Ecosystems 30, 319-343, 2000 | 107 | 2000 |
| Microbiological characterization of a sulfide-rich groundwater ecosystem SM Sarbu, BK Kinkle, L Vlasceanu, TC Kane, R Popa Geomicrobiolology Journal 12, 175-182, 1994 | 87 | 1994 |
| The hypogenic caves: a powerful tool for the study of seeps and their environmental effects P Forti, S Galdenzi, SM Sarbu Continental shelf research 22 (16), 2373-2386, 2002 | 84 | 2002 |
| Geology and biology of the Frasassi caves in Central Italy: An Ecological Multi-disciplinary Study of a Hypogenic Underground Karst System, in Subterranean Ecosystems, H … SM Sarbu, S Galdenzi, M Menichetti, G Gentile Ecosystems Of the World, Subterrabean Ecosystems, H. Wilkens, D.C 30, 359-378, 2000 | 70* | 2000 |
| Parallels between two geographically and ecologically disparate cave invasions by the same species, Asellus aquaticus (Isopoda, Crustacea) M Konec, S Prevorcnik, SM Sarbu, R Verovnik, P Trontelj Journal of Evolutionary Biology 10 (1111), 1-12, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Comparison between some epigean and hypogean populations of Asellus aquaticus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae). S Turk, B Sket, S Sarbu Hydrobiologia 337, 161–170., 1996 | 63 | 1996 |
| Niphargus–Thiothrix associations may be widespread in sulphidic groundwater ecosystems: evidence from southeastern Romania JF Flot, J Bauermeister, T Brad, A Hillebrand‐Voiculescu, SM Sarbu, ... Molecular Ecology 23 (6), 1405-1417, 2014 | 54 | 2014 |
| A unique chemoautotrophically based cave ecosystem SM Sarbu, R Popa The natural history of biospeleology, A.I. Camacho (Editor),, 637-666, 1992 | 53 | 1992 |
| A subterranean chemoautotrophically based ecosystem SM Sarbu, TC Kane NSS BULLETIN 57, 91-98, 1995 | 52 | 1995 |
| The chemoautotrophically based Movile Cave groundwater ecosystem, a hotspot of subterranean biodiversity T Brad, S Iepure, SM Sarbu Diversity 13 (3), 128, 2021 | 46 | 2021 |
| Methanotrophy by a Mycobacterium species that dominates a cave microbial ecosystem RJM Van Spanning, Q Guan, C Melkonian, J Gallant, L Polerecky, JF Flot, ... Nature microbiology 7 (12), 2089-2100, 2022 | 37 | 2022 |
| Chronogaster troglodytes sp. n.(Nemata: Chronogasteridae) from Movile Cave, with a review of cavernicolous nematodes GO Poinar Jr, SM Sarbu Fundamental and applied Nematology 17 (3), 231-238, 1994 | 37 | 1994 |
| Morphological evolution of coexisting amphipod species pairs from sulfidic caves suggests competitive interactions and character displacement, but no environmental filtering … C Fišer, R Luštrik, S Sarbu, JF Flot, P Trontelj PLoS One 10 (4), e0123535, 2015 | 36 | 2015 |
| Anoxic thermomineral cave waters and bacterial mats as habitat for freshwater nematodes W Riess, O Giere, O Kohls, SM Sarbu Aquatic Microbial Ecology 18 (2), 157-164, 1999 | 34 | 1999 |
| Dobrogea: Movile Cave SM Sarbu, C Lascu, T Brad Cave and karst systems of Romania, 429-436, 2019 | 29 | 2019 |
| Frasassi cave: a biogenic hypogean karst system? S Galdenzi, M Menichetti, SM Sarbu, A Rossi Karst 99. Études de geographie physique, 101-108, 1999 | 27 | 1999 |
| Microbial mats in a thermomineral sulfurous cave SM Sarbu, L Vlasceanu, R Popa, P Sheridan, BK Kinkle, TC Kane Microbial Mats: Structure, Development and Environmental Significance, 45-50, 1994 | 24 | 1994 |
