Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Salpes - La vie enchaînée
Bien que d’apparence primitive, les salpes sont de proches ancêtres des poissons. Lorsque les algues abondent, les salpes prolifèrent en de longues chaînes d’individus clonés.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Phytoplankton bloom observed in the Barents Sea (North of Norway) in August 2010 by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Aqua. Changes in ocean color result from modifications in the phytoplankton composition and concentration. The green colors are likely associated with the presence of diatoms. The shades of light blue result from the occurrence of coccolithophores, phytoplankton organisms that strongly reflect light due to their chalky shells - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
