Dataset

Occurrence of Eukaryotes in the size fraction >300 micrometres, collected worldwide during the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) using a Multinet and analysed on a ZooScan imaging platform

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Tara expeditions (2009-2013) sampled the world’s oceans with standardized protocols, putting an exceptional effort into sampling plankton diversity across a large size range, using a combination of water samples and net tows. The efforts to explore the genomic diversity of plankton, through metabarcoding and metagenomics, have led to well publicized papers and have made the renown of Tara. While a similar extensive effort has been put on imaging, the datasets are not public yet. In a limited number of stations, in addition to the usual 5μm -> ~5cm Tara sampling strategy, multinet trawls allowed to sample the vertical distribution of plankton; this is the content of this dataset. Using a 300µm mesh net, it cover organisms from 300µm to ~3cm.

Citation: Romagnan, J.B., Jalabert, L., Llopiz Monferrer, N., Merland, C., Trudnowska, E., Brandao, M., Elineau, A., Dimier, C., Picheral, M., Searson, S., Kandels-Lewis, S., Tara Oceans Consortium Coordinators, Karsenti, E., Pesant, S., Irisson, J.O., Lombard, F., Stemmann, L., Gorsky, G.; (2020) Occurrence of Eukaryotes in the size fraction >300 micrometres, collected worldwide during the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) using a Multinet and analysed on a ZooScan imaging platform https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/517

Published: September 17, 2025 at 08:36

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=dasid_6513

Jean-Baptiste Romagnan
Sorbonne Université

Laetitia Jalabert
Sorbonne Université

Natalia Llopis Monferrer
Sorbonne Université

Camille Merland
Sorbonne Université

Emilia Trudnowska
Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Oceanology; Departement of Marine Ecology

Manoela Costa Brandão
Sorbonne Université

Amanda Elineau
Sorbonne Université

Céline Dimier
Sorbonne Université

Marc Picheral
Sorbonne Université

Sarah Searson
Sorbonne Université

Stefanie Kandels-Lewis
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Stéphane Pesant
University of Bremen; Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences

Jean-Olivier Irisson
Sorbonne Université

Fabien Lombard
Sorbonne Université

Lars Stemmann
Sorbonne Université

Gabriel Gorsky
Sorbonne Université

Erik Karsenti
European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Tara Oceans Consortium Coordinators
Tara Oceans Consortium

9,865
occurrence records
25,008
measurements and facts
120
taxa
18
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 9,865
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

No quality flags.

Measurement types

DNA derived data