International Bottom Trawl Survey 2023 - Phytoplankton diversity at high spatial and temporal resolution (IFCB)

Sampling event
Latest version published by EcoTaxa on Aug 5, 2026 EcoTaxa

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Description

The IBTS 2023 fisheries campaign (January 25 - February 13, 2023) was coordinated by IFREMER on the "Thalassa" R.V. (French Oceanographic Fleet). Plankton was sampled in the Eastern English Channel and the North Sea. The Imaging FlowCytoBot enabled imaging of nano- and microphytoplankton (10 µm to 150 µm), every 30 minutes from underwater continuous pumping in surface waters (5m), as well as in surface samples collected by Niskin bottles. Images and metadata were acquired, retrieved from IFCB using the ROI viewer software and the SYKEPIC tool, processed and identified at the Laboratoire d'Océanologie et Géosciences (CNRS UMR 8187 LOG). The discrete dataset corresponds to the 143 stations sampled during the campaign. There are two samples per station to process a total of 10 mL of sampled seawater.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 151 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
151
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
9157
Occurrence 
3002

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Brasseur S, Szrama V, Chomienne L, Gallot C., Hubert Z., Coinon F., Lescroart E., Fauvel L., Artigas L F (2026). Phytoplankton taxonomic diversity addressed by automated imaging (IFCB) in surface waters of the eastern English Channel and southern North Sea during the International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) 2023

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is EcoTaxa. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 614337a5-ea2a-4d40-92ec-179bee404b0b.  EcoTaxa publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF France.

Keywords

Plankton; Imaging; EcoTaxa; Samplingevent

Contacts

Felipe Artigas
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Laboratoire d'Océanologie et Géosciences (CNRS - ULCO - U Lille) (Wimereux)
FR
Sophie Brasseur
Luis Chomienne
Valentine Szrama

Geographic Coverage

See coordinates

Bounding Coordinates South West [49.612, -0.289], North East [54.871, 7.509]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Phylum Bacillariophyta, Ciliophora, Haptophyta
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Bacillariophyceae, Choanoflagellatea, Cryptophyceae, Dinophyceae
Family Dinophysaceae, Gymnodiniaceae, Heterocapsaceae, Protoperidiniaceae
Genus Actinoptychus, Akashiwo, Bacillaria, Biddulphia, Chaetoceros, Corethron, Coscinodiscus, Cylindrotheca, Delphineis, Dictyocha, Dinophysis, Diploneis, Ditylum, Entomoneis, Ephemera, Eucampia, Euglena, Gyrodinium, Heterocapsa, Karenia, Katodinium, Licmophora, Navicula, Odontella, Phaeocystis, Plagiogrammopsis, Pleurosigma, Proboscia, Prorocentrum, Pseudo-nitzschia, Rhaphoneis, Skeletonema, Strobilidium, Strombidium, Thalassionema, Thalassiosira, Torodinium, Warnowia
Species Asterionella glacialis, Bacterosira constricta, Brockmanniella brockmannii, Chaetoceros compressus, Chaetoceros danicus, Chaetoceros lorenzianus, Chaetoceros socialis, Coscinodiscus radiatus, Dictyocha fibula, Ditylum brightwellii, Guinardia delicatula, Guinardia flaccida, Guinardia striata, Gymnodinium catenatum, Helicotheca tamesis, Laboea strobila, Lauderia annulata, Leptocylindrus minimus, Mediopyxis helysia, Mesodinium rubrum, Meuniera membranacea, Navicula transitans, Octactis speculum, Odontella aurita, Odontella regia, Paralia sulcata, Phaeocystis globosa, Podosira stelligera, Prorocentrum micans, Pseudo-nitzschia pungens, Pseudo-nitzschia seriata, Rhizosolenia imbricata, Rhizosolenia setigera, Scrippsiella acuminata, Strombidium inclinatum, Thalassionema nitzschioides, Thalassiosira gravida

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2023-01-24 / 2023-02-13

Additional Metadata

Supporting/Funding projects : - French State – ERDF - Hauts-de-France Region- Project (CPER) - Approche Intégrée des Défis Maritimes et Littoraux (IDÉAL) - 2021-2028 - Horizon 2020 INFRAIA 01-2019 - Joint European Research Infrastructure of Coastal Observatories - Science, Surveillance, and Systems - JERICO S3 (2019-2024) (Grant Agreement ID: 871153). - Priority Research Project “Ocean and Climate” PPR RiOMar (2022-2028) supported by a France 2030 grant (ANR-22-POE-0006) - Priority Research Project “Ocean and Climate” PPR Future OBS (2022-2028) supported by a France 2030 grant (ANR-22-POCE-0004) - operated by the French National Research Agency - Horizons-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01-0 Observing and mapping marine ecosystems - Next Generation Tools - OBAMA - NEXT (2022-2026) - Grant agreement ID: 101081642. - HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-07 - Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean - DTO BioFlow (2023-2027) - Grant agreement ID: 101112823. Many thanks to the captain and crew members of the "Thalassa" Research Vessel, the IFREMER PIs, scientists, engineers, technicians and interns participating in the IBTS 2023 cruise. Thanks to Kaisa Kraft from SYKE (FI) for SYKEPIC assistance and to the ECOTAXA support team at LOV for their help. SISMER reference of the IBTS 2023 cruise: AUBER Arnaud, BLED DEFRUIT Geoffrey, CABOCHE Josselin (2023) IBTS 2023 cruise, RV Thalassa, https://doi.org/10.17600/18002362

Maintenance Description periodic review of origin data