Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium gravidum

the seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration

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The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.

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Drifting profiling floats in the Atlantic

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Posters

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Ptéropodes - Mollusques qui nagent
Les papillons des mers construisent de fragiles coquilles. Résisteront-elles à l’acidification des océans?

Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)

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)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium pentagonum var robustum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

World ocean currents map

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

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Plankton
Plankton are a multitude of living organisms adrift in the currents.Our food, our fuel, and the air we breathe originate in plankton.

Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni

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Colony of dinoflagellates Ceratium hexacanthum. In the video, one can observe the movement of the flagella. (Video : Sophie Marro)