Siphonophore Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the global ocean.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)