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.
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium fusus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Cylindrotheca (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Animation of the biosphere obtained from the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS
Ctenaria Eucharis multicornis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
