Nutrients and other environmental factors influence virus abundances across oxic and hypoxic marine environments

Viruses

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Finke, Jan F ^a   Hunt, Brian P V ^a,b   Winter, Christian ^a   Carmack, Eddy C ^c   Suttle, Curtis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HAKAI INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Akaike Information Criterion; Environmental variables; Multivariate model; Viral abundance

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SILICON DIOXIDE; CARBON; SEA WATER;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYPOXIA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE; VIRUS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL LOAD; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL LOAD; CARBON; ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SALINITY; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 85021175270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v9060152     Document Type: Article

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