Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with Manta Net and imaged with ZooScan 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. Mesoplankton and plastics were sampled using the Manta (300-micron mesh size) at sea surface. See https://doi.org/10.17882/102537 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 62 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)
62
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
7056
Occurrence 
2290

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

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Mériguet Z, Lombard F, Bourdin G, Jalabert L, Caray--Counil L, Maury J, Elineau A, Luiza Pedrotti M, Gorsky G, The Tara Pacific Consortium (2026). Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with Manta Net and imaged with ZooScan during the Tara Pacific Expedition. Version 1.4. EcoTaxa. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=tara-pac-zooscan-manta&v=1.4

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

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: 58ee1958-b77c-487b-ac93-ac8cf77bef46.  EcoTaxa publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF France.

Keywords

Plankton; Imaging; EcoTaxa; Manta; Samplingevent

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Global scale surface meso-plankton and microplastics dataset collected with Manta Net and imaged with ZooScan during the Tara Pacific Expedition https://www.seanoe.org/data/00913/102537/ 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
US
Laetitia Jalabert
  • Originator
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche
FR
Louis Caray--Counil
  • Originator
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
FR
Juliette Maury
  • Originator
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche
FR
Amanda Elineau
  • Originator
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche
FR
Maria Luiza Pedrotti
  • Originator
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie 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 [-27.358, -176.628], North East [45.197, 178.942]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Actinopterygii, Anthozoa, Appendicularia, Bivalvia, Cephalopoda, Echinoidea, Hydrozoa, Insecta, Ophiuroidea, Ostracoda, Scyphozoa, Thaliacea
Family Acartiidae, Calanidae, Candaciidae, Cavoliniidae, Centropagidae, Corycaeidae, Creseidae, Diphyidae, Eucalanidae, Euchaetidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2016-08-30 / 2018-07-05

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements
Maintenance Description periodic review of origin data
Alternative Identifiers 58ee1958-b77c-487b-ac93-ac8cf77bef46
https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=tara-pac-zooscan-manta