Dr. Helle Ploug

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsMicrobial Ecology and Applied Microbiology,Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
KeywordsAggregates, Diffusion, Flow, Microbial Colonization, Remineralization

Current contact address

CountrySweden
CityGoteborg
InstitutionUniversity of Gothenburg
InstituteDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Dirk de BeerMicrosensor Research Group, Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie, Bremen
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2001

Programme(s)

2001Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2008Helle Ploug, Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen, Marja Koski, Erik Buitenhuis: Production, respiratory carbon turnover, and sinking velocity of copepod fecal pellets: direct measurements of ballasting by opal and calcite. Limnol. Oceanogr. 53: 469-476.. In: Limnology and Oceanography, 2008, 469-476
2007Helle Ploug, Uta Passow: Direct measurements of diffusivity in diatom aggregates containing transparent exopolymer particles (TEP).. In: Limnology and Oceanography, 2007, 1-6
2003Hans-Peter Grossart, Thomas Kiorboe, Kam Tang, Helle Ploug: Bacterial Colonization of Particles: Growth and Interactions. In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2003, 3500-3509
2003Thomas Kiorboe, Kam Tang, Hans-Peter Grossart, Helle Ploug: Dynamics of Microbial Communities on Marine Snow Aggregates: Colonization, Growth, Detachment, and Grazing Mortality of Attached Bacteria. In: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2003, 3036-3047
2003Hans Peter Grossart, Susanne Hietanen, Helle Ploug: Microbial dynamics on diatom aggregates in Oresund, Denmark. In: Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2003, 69-78
2002Helle Ploug, Susanna Hietanen, Jorma Kuparinen Diffusion and advection within and around sinking, porous diatom aggregates . In: Limnol. Oceanogr., 2002, 1129-1136