Viral ecology is a rapidly progressing area of research, as molecular methods have improved significantly for targeted research on specific populations and whole communities. To interpret and synthesize global viral diversity and distribution, it is feasible to assess whether macroecology concepts can apply to marine viruses. We review how viral and host life history and physical properties can influence viral distribution in light of biogeography and metacommunity ecology paradigms. We highlight analytical approaches that can be applied to emerging global data sets and meta-analyses to identify individual taxa with global influence and drivers of emergent properties that influence microbial community structure by drawing on examples across the spectrum of viral taxa, from RNA to ssDNA and dsDNA viruses.

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海洋中病毒的生物地理学。

病毒生态学是一个快速发展的研究领域，因为针对特定人群和整个社区的针对性研究的分子方法已得到显着改善。为了解释和综合全球病毒的多样性和分布，评估宏观生态学概念是否可以应用于海洋病毒是可行的。我们回顾了病毒和宿主的生活史和物理特性如何根据生物地​​理学和元社区生态学范式影响病毒的分布。我们将重点介绍可用于新兴全球数据集和荟萃分析的分析方法，以利用从RNA到ssDNA和dsDNA病毒。