ADVANCES IN POLAR SCIENCE ›› 2012, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (4): 415-422.DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1084.2012.00415

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  A REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN THE STUDY OF VIRIOPLANKTON IN THE POLAR ZONE

Li Hongbo   

  1. Key Laboratory for Ecological Environment in Coastal Areas,SOA,National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China
  • Received:2012-03-26 Revised:2012-06-11 Online:2012-12-30 Published:2012-12-30
  • Contact: Hong-Bo LI

Abstract: Study on marine virioplankton in polar zones home and abroad is summarized in this paper, and the effect of climate change-seaice melting on the polar virus ecology, including the impact on abundance and diversity of virioplankton, and the role of virus in carbon cycle in polar regions also are disscussed. On the other hand, the methods about virus abundance, viral decay rate, viral production, and the roles in bacterial mortality rate induced by viral lysis, are expounded in detail. Although the study on virus ecology is scarce in China, the interrelated work, e.g. primary production, bacterial production, microbial food loop and so on, have been done much. At the end, several questions about virus ecology in polar zones are put forward, and wish to be solved in the future.

Key words: polar zone, climate change, sea-ice melting, virioplankton, carbon cycle