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Stephan Pflugmacher

Stephan Pflugmacher

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Biology and Biochemistry

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61
Citations
12597
World Ranking
11405
National Ranking
394

Overview

Stephan Pflugmacher is affiliated with the University of Manitoba in Canada and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on pollution, industrial and manufacturing engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental chemistry, and biomaterials. The scientist's work spans various topics including microplastics and plastic pollution, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, nanoparticles synthesis and applications, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, and constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment.

Among the recent scientific papers authored by Stephan Pflugmacher or closely associated works in their network are:

  • Low-Cost Biochar Adsorbents for Water Purification Including Microplastics Removal, 2020, Applied Sciences
  • The Influence of New and Artificial Aged Microplastic and Leachates on the Germination of Lepidium sativum L., 2020, Plants
  • Ageing affects microplastic toxicity over time: Effects of aged polycarbonate on germination, growth, and oxidative stress of Lepidium sativum, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • The ability of selected filter materials in removing nutrients, metals, and microplastics from stormwater in biofilter structures, 2021, Journal of Environmental Quality
  • Enchytraeus crypticus Avoid Soil Spiked with Microplastic, 2020, Toxics

Frequent co-authors in Stephan Pflugmacher's collaborative work include:

  • Maranda Esterhuizen-Londt
  • Young Jun Kim
  • Olli-Pekka Penttinen
  • Costanza Scopetani
  • Sang-Ah Lee

The scientist has published multiple times in several journals and conferences, particularly:

  • Toxics
  • Chemosphere
  • Water Air & Soil Pollution
  • Global NEST International Conference on Environmental Science & Technology
  • Applied Sciences

Stephan Pflugmacher's extensive research in Environmental Science centers on how microplastics affect ecosystems and organisms, especially focusing on toxicity, germination, growth, and material aging effects. Their work also extends to the removal of contaminants such as nutrients, metals, and microplastics from water sources through filtration and biofilter structures.

Best Publications

  • Identification of an enzymatically formed glutathione conjugate of the cyanobacterial hepatotoxin microcystin-LR: the first step of detoxication.

    Stephan Pflugmacher;Claudia Wiegand;Axel Oberemm;Kenneth A. Beattie

  • Contribution of hot spring cyanobacteria to the mysterious deaths of Lesser Flamingos at Lake Bogoria, Kenya

    Lothar Krienitz;Andreas Ballot;Kiplagat Kotut;Claudia Wiegand

  • Possible allelopathic effects of cyanotoxins, with reference to microcystin-LR, in aquatic ecosystems.

    Stephan Pflugmacher

  • Promotion of oxidative stress in the aquatic macrophyte Ceratophyllum demersum during biotransformation of the cyanobacterial toxin microcystin-LR.

    Stephan Pflugmacher

  • Uptake and effects of microcystin-LR on detoxication enzymes of early life stages of the zebra fish (Danio rerio)

    Claudia Wiegand;Stephan Pflugmacher;Axel Oberemm;Nanke Meems

  • Uptake, tissue distribution and accumulation of microcystin-RR in Corydoras paleatus, Jenynsia multidentata and Odontesthes bonariensis. A field and laboratory study.

    Jimena Cazenave;Daniel Alberto Wunderlin;María de los Ángeles Bistoni;María Valeria Amé

  • Cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial toxins in three alkaline Rift Valley lakes of Kenya—Lakes Bogoria, Nakuru and Elmenteita

    Andreas Ballot;Lothar Krienitz;Kiplagat Kotut;Claudia Wiegand

  • Low-Cost Biochar Adsorbents for Water Purification Including Microplastics Removal

    Virpi Siipola;Stephan Pflugmacher;Henrik Romar;Laura Wendling

  • Effects of enteric bacterial and cyanobacterial lipopolysaccharides, and of microcystin-LR, on glutathione S-transferase activities in zebra fish (Danio rerio).

    J.H Best;S Pflugmacher;C Wiegand;F.B Eddy

  • Toxicokinetics of atrazine in embryos of the zebrafish (Danio rerio)

    Claudia Wiegand;Eberhard Krause;Christian Steinberg;Stephan Pflugmacher

  • The effects of a cyanobacterial crude extract on different aquatic organisms: evidence for cyanobacterial toxin modulating factors.

    Constanze Pietsch;Claudia Wiegand;M. Valeria Amé;Andreas Nicklisch

  • Uptake, effects, and metabolism of cyanobacterial toxins in the emergent reed plant Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex steud

    Stephan Pflugmacher;Claudia Wiegand;Kenneth A. Beattie;Eberhard Krause

  • Differences in susceptibility of various life stages of amphibians to pesticide exposure

    Kerstin Greulich;Stephan Pflugmacher

  • Cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial toxins in the alkaline crater lakes Sonachi and Simbi, Kenya

    Andreas Ballot;Lothar Krienitz;Kiplagat Kotut;Claudia Wiegand

  • Ammonia triggers the promotion of oxidative stress in the aquatic macrophyte Myriophyllum mattogrossense.

    Jorge Nimptsch;Stephan Pflugmacher

  • Exposure to human pharmaceuticals Carbamazepine, Ibuprofen and Bezafibrate causes molecular effects in Dreissena polymorpha

    Valeska Contardo-Jara;Claudia Lorenz;Stephan Pflugmacher;Gunnar Nützmann

  • Genotype versus phenotype variability in Chlorella and Micractinium (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae).

    Wei Luo;Stephan Pflugmacher;Thomas Pröschold;Norbert Walz

  • Uptake of microcystins-LR and -LF (cyanobacterial toxins) in seedlings of several important agricultural plant species and the correlation with cellular damage (lipid peroxidation)

    Anja Peuthert;Shumon Chakrabarti;Stephan Pflugmacher

  • Immuno-crossreactivity and toxicity assessment of conjugation products of the cyanobacterial toxin, microcystin-LR

    James S. Metcalf;Kenneth A. Beattie;Stephan Pflugmacher;Geoffrey A. Codd

  • Comparative effects and metabolism of two microcystins and nodularin in the brine shrimp Artemia salina.

    Kenneth A. Beattie;Judith Ressler;Claudia Wiegand;Eberhard Krause

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Kloas
Werner Kloas Leibniz Association
Geoffrey A. Codd
Geoffrey A. Codd University of Dundee
Claudia Wiegand
Claudia Wiegand University of Rennes
Lothar Krienitz
Lothar Krienitz Leibniz Association
Daniel A. Wunderlin
Daniel A. Wunderlin National University of Córdoba
Eberhard Krause
Eberhard Krause Leibniz Association
Sebastian Höss
Sebastian Höss Institute for Biodiversity
Vitor Vasconcelos
Vitor Vasconcelos University of Porto
Christian Steinberg
Christian Steinberg INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Thomas Mehner
Thomas Mehner Leibniz Association

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