A global viral oceanography database (gVOD)

Xie, Le; Wei, Wei; Cai, Lanlan; Chen, Xiaowei; Huang, Yuhong; Jiao, Nianzhi; Zhang, Rui; Luo, Ya-Wei

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1251-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1251-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1251-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Data description paper

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24 Mar 2021

Data description paper |

| 24 Mar 2021

A global viral oceanography database (gVOD)

Le Xie, Wei Wei, Lanlan Cai, Xiaowei Chen, Yuhong Huang, Nianzhi Jiao, Rui Zhang, and Ya-Wei Luo

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1251-2021-supplement

Data sets

A global viral oceanography database (gVOD) from 1987 to 2018 Le Xie, Wei Wei, Lanlan Cai, Xiaowei Chen, Yuhong Huang, Rui Zhang, and Ya-Wei Luo https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.915758

Short summary

Viruses play key roles in marine ecosystems by killing their hosts, maintaining diversity and recycling nutrients. In the global viral oceanography database (gVOD), 10 931 viral abundance data and 727 viral production data, along with host and other oceanographic parameters, were compiled. It identified viral data were undersampled in the southeast Pacific and Indian oceans. The gVOD can be used in marine viral ecology investigation and modeling of marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles.