| Microbial ecology of organic aggregates in aquatic ecosystems M Simon, HP Grossart, B Schweitzer, H Ploug Aquatic microbial ecology 28 (2), 175-211, 2002 | 1177 | 2002 |
| Ballast minerals and the sinking carbon flux in the ocean: carbon-specific respiration rates and sinking velocity of marine snow aggregates MH Iversen, H Ploug Biogeosciences 7 (9), 2613-2624, 2010 | 315 | 2010 |
| Mechanisms and rates of bacterial colonization of sinking aggregates T Kiørboe, HP Grossart, H Ploug, K Tang Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68 (8), 3996-4006, 2002 | 267 | 2002 |
| Anoxic aggregates-an ephemeral phenomenon in the pelagic environment? H Ploug, M Kühl, B Buchholz-Cleven, BB Jørgensen Aquatic microbial ecology 13 (3), 285-294, 1997 | 259 | 1997 |
| MICROENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS‐COUPLED RESPIRATION IN AN EPILITHIC CYANOBACTERIAL BIOFILM1 M Kühl, RN Glud, H Ploug, NB Ramsing Journal of Phycology 32 (5), 799-812, 1996 | 250 | 1996 |
| Ballast, sinking velocity, and apparent diffusivity within marine snow and zooplankton fecal pellets: Implications for substrate turnover by attached bacteria H Ploug, MH Iversen, G Fischer Limnology and Oceanography 53 (5), 1878-1886, 2008 | 230 | 2008 |
| Bacterial colonization of particles: growth and interactions HP Grossart, T Kiørboe, K Tang, H Ploug Applied and environmental microbiology 69 (6), 3500-3509, 2003 | 227 | 2003 |
| Comparison of cell-specific activity between free-living and attached bacteria using isolates and natural assemblages HP Grossart, KW Tang, T Kiørboe, H Ploug FEMS microbiology letters 266 (2), 194-200, 2007 | 214 | 2007 |
| Dynamics of microbial communities on marine snow aggregates: colonization, growth, detachment, and grazing mortality of attached bacteria T Kiørboe, K Tang, HP Grossart, H Ploug Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69 (6), 3036-3047, 2003 | 204 | 2003 |
| Photosynthesis, respiration, and carbon turnover in sinking marine snow from surface waters of Southern California Bight: implications for the carbon cycle in the ocean H Ploug, HP Grossart, F Azam, BB Jørgensen Marine Ecology Progress Series 179, 1-11, 1999 | 198 | 1999 |
| Microbial degradation of organic carbon and nitrogen on diatom aggregates HP Grossart, H Ploug Limnology and oceanography 46 (2), 267-277, 2001 | 195 | 2001 |
| Temperature effects on carbon-specific respiration rate and sinking velocity of diatom aggregates–potential implications for deep ocean export processes MH Iversen, H Ploug Biogeosciences 10 (6), 4073-4085, 2013 | 183 | 2013 |
| On the occurrence of anoxic microniches, denitrification, and sulfate reduction in aerated activated sludge A Schramm, CM Santegoeds, HK Nielsen, H Ploug, M Wagner, M Pribyl, ... Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65 (9), 4189-4196, 1999 | 181 | 1999 |
| High resolution profiles of vertical particulate organic matter export off Cape Blanc, Mauritania: Degradation processes and ballasting effects MH Iversen, N Nowald, H Ploug, GA Jackson, G Fischer Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 57 (6), 771-784, 2010 | 180 | 2010 |
| Bacterial growth and grazing on diatom aggregates: Respiratory carbon turnover as a function of aggregate size and sinking velocity H Ploug, HP Grossart Limnology and Oceanography 45 (7), 1467-1475, 2000 | 173 | 2000 |
| Small‐scale oxygen fluxes and remineralization in sinking aggregates H Ploug Limnology and Oceanography 46 (7), 1624-1631, 2001 | 154 | 2001 |
| Interactions between marine snow and heterotrophic bacteria: aggregate formation and microbial dynamics HP Grossart, T Kiørboe, KW Tang, M Allgaier, EM Yam, H Ploug Aquatic microbial ecology 42 (1), 19-26, 2006 | 153 | 2006 |
| Fluid motion and solute distribution around sinking aggregates. I. Small-scale fluxes and heterogeneity of nutrients in the pelagic environment T Kiørboe, H Ploug, UH Thygesen Marine Ecology Progress Series 211, 1-13, 2001 | 148 | 2001 |
| Production, oxygen respiration rates, and sinking velocity of copepod fecal pellets: direct measurements of ballasting by opal and calcite H Ploug, MH Iversen, M Koski, ET Buitenhuis Limnology and Oceanography 53 (2), 469-476, 2008 | 142 | 2008 |
| Aerobic and anaerobic nitrogen transformation processes in N2-fixing cyanobacterial aggregates I Klawonn, S Bonaglia, V Brüchert, H Ploug The ISME journal 9 (6), 1456-1466, 2015 | 139 | 2015 |
