Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with Deck Net and imaged with Flowcam during the Tara Pacific Expedition

Sampling event
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March 11, 2026
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Description

The Tara Pacific expedition sampled differents ecosystems of the oceans during a two-year expedition (2016-2018), collecting environmental data and surface plankton of Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, from viruses to metazoans, on board the 36-metre Tara Schooner. Surface microplankton were collected using a custom-built water pumping system called the Dolphin, designed for use while sailing at high speed. The pumped water was filtered through a 20 µm mesh net (Deck-Net) installed on the deck of the schooner Tara.See  https://doi.org/10.17882/102697 for more details.

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 414 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)
414
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
32433
Occurrence 
10673

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Mériguet Z, Lombard F, Bourdin G, Jalabert L, Bun O, Caray--Counil L, Elineau A, Gorsky G, The Tara Pacific Consortium (2026). Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with Deck Net and imaged with Flowcam during the Tara Pacific Expedition. Version 1.4. EcoTaxa. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=tara-pac-flowcam-decknet&v=1.4

Rights

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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: d977ef4a-94ec-4d26-aa9a-ad665907f8fd.  EcoTaxa publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF France.

Keywords

Plankton; Imaging; EcoTaxa; DeckNet; Flowcam; Samplingevent

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Global scale surface micro-plankton dataset collected with Deck Net and imaged with FlowCam during the Tara Pacific Expedition https://www.seanoe.org/data/00915/102697/ UTF-8 TSV, CSV

Contacts

Zoé Mériguet
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
FR
Fabien Lombard
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
FR
Guillaume Bourdin
  • Originator
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04401, USA
FR
Laetitia Jalabert
  • Originator
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche
FR
Olivier Bun
  • Originator
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
FR
Louis Caray--Counil
  • Originator
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
FR
Amanda Elineau
  • Originator
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche
FR
Gaby Gorsky
  • Originator
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
FR
The Tara Pacific Consortium

Geographic Coverage

See coordinates

Bounding Coordinates South West [-35.61, -179.063], North East [45.236, 178.933]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia, Bacteria
Phylum Annelida, Ciliophora, Cyanobacteria, Foraminifera, Mollusca, Rotifera
Subphylum Crustacea, Tunicata
Class Acantharia, Appendicularia, Bacillariophyceae, Cyanophyceae, Dictyochophyceae, Dinophyceae
Subclass Copepoda, Coscinodiscophycidae
Order Asterolamprales, Gonyaulacales, Gymnodiniales, Nassellaria, Spumellaria, Thalassionematales
Suborder Tintinnina
Family Amphilithidae, Bacillariaceae, Codonellidae, Pyrocystaceae, Rhabdosphaeraceae, Rhizosoleniaceae, Undellidae, Xystonellidae, Zoothamniidae
Genus Amphisolenia, Amphorides, Amplectella, Asterionellopsis, Bacteriastrum, Ceratocorys, Chaetoceros, Cladopyxis, Climacodium, Codonaria, Codonellopsis, Corethron, Cyttarocylis, Dactyliosolen, Dadayiella, Diatoma, Dictyocysta, Dinophysis, Ditylum, Epiplocylis, Eucampia, Eutintinnus, Fragilariopsis, Guinardia, Helicotheca, Hemiaulus, Lacrymaria, Metacylis, Micracanthodinium, Neoceratium, Nitzschia, Ornithocercus, Oxytoxum, Phalacroma, Planktoniella, Podolampas, Poroecus, Protoperidinium, Pseudo-nitzschia, Pterosperma, Pyrophacus, Rhabdonella, Rhabdonellopsis, Richelia, Salpingella, Steenstrupiella
Species Chaetoceros peruvianus, Chaetoceros protuberans, Codonellopsis orthoceras, Coscinodiscus sol, Hemidiscus cuneiformis, Ornithocercus heteroporus, Ornithocercus magnificus, Ornithocercus quadratus, Ornithocercus steinii, Tripos candelabrum, Tripos furca, Tripos fusus, Tripos geniculatus, Tripos limulus, Tripos pentagonus

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2016-06-10 / 2018-08-31

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements
Purpose
Maintenance Description periodic review of origin data
Alternative Identifiers d977ef4a-94ec-4d26-aa9a-ad665907f8fd
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