Dataset: Marine VMR
Deployment: lab_Weitz

Virus and Microbial Cell Abundances from Marine Samples

Principal Investigator:

Joshua Weitz (Georgia Institute of Technology, GA Tech)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

Understanding the Effects of Complex Phage-Bacteria Infection Networks on Marine Ecosystems (Phage-Bacteria-Nets)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version:

18 October 2016

Version Date:

2016-10-18

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/661850/data

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Description

Virus and microbial cell abundances from 25 marine surveys.

Data is also available via: http://weitzgroup.github.io/Virus_Microbe_Abundance/

Data are freely available Open source via Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

The original publication is:
C.H. Wigington et al. 2016. Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances Nature Microbiology 1:15024. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2015.24

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

Marine virus abundance data were aggregated from 25 studies. A total of 5,671 data points were aggregated. The data collection dates ranged from 1996 to 2012. Data were primarily collected from coastal waters in the northern hemisphere, predominately during the summer months, with the notable exceptions of long-term coastal monthly monitoring sites, that is, the studies USC MO, BATS and MOVE.

See the original publication for more information:
C.H. Wigington et al. 2016. Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances Nature Microbiology 1:15024. doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2015.24

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

Analyses of the data were performed using R version 3.1.1. Scripts and original data are provided at https://github.com/WeitzGroup/Virus_Microbe_Abundance

BCO-DMO Processing:
- modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions;
- formatted dates to mm/dd/yyyy;
- replaced spaces with underscores.

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Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-1233760	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

None available yet

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
obs	Observation identifier	unitless	sample
date	Date of observation in mm/dd/yyyy format	unitless	date
study	Name of the study which made the abundance estimates	unitless	dataset_id
lon	Longitude of the sample	decimal degrees	lon
lat	Latitude of the sample	decimal degrees	lat
depth	Depth of the sample	meters	depth
bacteria	Bacterial abundance	counts per milliliter (counts/mL)	abundance
virus	Viral abundance	counts per milliliter (counts/mL)	abundance

Database

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Dataset: Marine VMR
Deployment: lab_Weitz

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Dataset: Marine VMR
Deployment: lab_Weitz