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Helle Ploug is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and conducts research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses extensively on marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, and diatoms and algae research.

The scientist's research spans multiple subfields including oceanography, ecology, biomaterials, pollution, and environmental chemistry. Their investigations frequently address topics such as marine biology and ecology research, wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, ocean acidification effects and responses, and aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics.

Helle Ploug has published several papers across notable venues. Key recent publications include:

  • Flow and diffusion around and within diatom aggregates: Effects of aggregate composition and shape (2020, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • Resting Stages of Skeletonema marinoi Assimilate Nitrogen From the Ambient Environment Under Dark, Anoxic Conditions (2020, Journal of Phycology)
  • Efficient carbon and nitrogen transfer from marine diatom aggregates to colonizing bacterial groups (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Single cell dynamics and nitrogen transformations in the chain forming diatom Chaetoceros affinis (2023, The ISME Journal)
  • Carbonate chemistry in the microenvironment within cyanobacterial aggregates under present-day and future pCO2 levels (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)

Their frequent coauthors include Rickard Stenow, Martin J. Whitehouse, Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen, Elizabeth K. Robertson, and Malin Olofsson, suggesting sustained collaborative efforts in related research domains.

Publication venues in which Ploug has appeared multiple times are Limnology and Oceanography, Journal of Phycology, Scientific Reports, The ISME Journal, and Environmental Microbiology, reflecting a robust presence in marine and environmental science journals.

Overall, the scientist's work contributes to understanding complex interactions within aquatic ecosystems, particularly focusing on microbial processes, nutrient cycling, and the effects of environmental changes such as acidification on marine organisms.

Best Publications

  • Microbial ecology of organic aggregates in aquatic ecosystems

    Meinhard Simon;Hans Peter Grossart;Bernd Schweitzer;Helle Ploug

  • Ballast minerals and the sinking carbon flux in the ocean: carbon-specific respiration rates and sinking velocity of marine snow aggregates

    Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen;Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen;Helle Ploug;Helle Ploug

  • Ballast, sinking velocity, and apparent diffusivity within marine snow and zooplankton fecal pellets: Implications for substrate turnover by attached bacteria

    Helle Ploug;Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen;Gerhard Fischer

  • Anoxic aggregates - an ephemeral phenomenon in the pelagic environment?

    Helle Ploug;Michael Kühl;B Buchholz-Cleven;Bo Barker Jørgensen

  • Mechanisms and rates of bacterial colonization of sinking aggregates.

    Thomas Kiørboe;Hans-Peter Grossart;Helle Ploug;Kam Tang

  • MICROENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS‐COUPLED RESPIRATION IN AN EPILITHIC CYANOBACTERIAL BIOFILM1

    Michael Kühl;Ronnie Nøhr Glud;Helle Ploug;Niels Birger Ramsing

  • Bacterial colonization of particles: Growth and interactions

    Hans-Peter Grossart;Thomas Kiørboe;Kam Tang;Helle Ploug

  • Dynamics of Microbial Communities on Marine Snow Aggregates: Colonization, Growth, Detachment, and Grazing Mortality of Attached Bacteria

    Thomas Kiørboe;Kam Tang;Hans-Peter Grossart;Helle Ploug

  • Comparison of cell-specific activity between free-living and attached bacteria using isolates and natural assemblages.

    Hans-Peter Grossart;Kam W. Tang;Thomas Kiørboe;Helle Ploug

  • Photosynthesis, respiration, and carbon turnover in sinking marine snow from surface waters of Southern California Bight: implications for the carbon cycle in the ocean.

    Helle Ploug;Hans-Peter Grossart;Farooq Azam;Bo Barker Jørgensen

  • Microbial degradation of organic carbon and nitrogen on diatom aggregates

    Hans-Peter Grossart;Helle Ploug

  • High resolution profiles of vertical particulate organic matter export off Cape Blanc, Mauritania: Degradation processes and ballasting effects

    Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen;Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen;Nicolas Nowald;Helle Ploug;Helle Ploug;George A. Jackson

  • Temperature effects on carbon-specific respiration rate and sinking velocity of diatom aggregates - potential implications for deep ocean export processes

    Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen;H Ploug;H Ploug

  • On the Occurrence of Anoxic Microniches, Denitrification, and Sulfate Reduction in Aerated Activated Sludge

    Andreas Schramm;Cecilia M. Santegoeds;Helle K. Nielsen;Helle Ploug

  • Bacterial growth and grazing on diatom aggregates : Respiratory carbon turnover as a function of aggregate size and sinking velocity

    Helle Ploug;Hans-Peter Grossart

  • Aerobic and anaerobic nitrogen transformation processes in N2-fixing cyanobacterial aggregates

    Isabell Klawonn;Stefano Bonaglia;Volker Brüchert;Helle Ploug;Helle Ploug

  • Small-scale oxygen fluxes and remineralization in sinking aggregates

    Helle Ploug

  • Production, oxygen respiration rates, and sinking velocity of copepod fecal pellets: Direct measurements of ballasting by opal and calcite

    Helle Ploug;Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen;Marja Koski;Erik Theodoor Buitenhuis

  • Interactions between marine snow and heterotrophic bacteria: aggregate formation and microbial dynamics

    Hp P. Grossart;T. Kiørboe;Kw W. Tang;M. Allgaier

  • Fluid motion and solute distribution around sinking aggregates. I. Small-scale fluxes and heterogeneity of nutrients in the pelagic environment

    Thomas Kiørboe;Helle Ploug;Uffe H. Thygesen

  • Ballast minerals and the sinking carbon flux in the ocean

    Helle Ploug

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Gerhard Fischer
Gerhard Fischer University of Colorado Boulder
Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Marcel M. M. Kuypers Max Planck Society
Bo Barker Jørgensen
Bo Barker Jørgensen Aarhus University
George A. Jackson
George A. Jackson Texas A&M University
Gaute Lavik
Gaute Lavik Max Planck Society
Thomas Kiørboe
Thomas Kiørboe Technical University of Denmark
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History
Kam W. Tang
Kam W. Tang Swansea University
Dieter Wolf-Gladrow
Dieter Wolf-Gladrow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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