Collaborative Research: Constraining virus loss and carbon and nitrogen flow through virovory in temperate marine ecosystems with isotope tracing and microbial food web models.

A quantitative understanding of the flow of nutrients and energy in marine ecosystems is critical to understanding and predict the availability of the resources that support food webs and the capacity of the ocean to store carbon. Viruses play multiple and dynamic roles in the fate of organic matter and the flow of energy in the ocean. Arguably,…