Basin-Scale Underway Quantitative Survey of Surface Microplankton Using Affordable Collection and Imaging Tools Deployed From Tara - COMPutational PLankton Ecology
Journal Articles Frontiers in Marine Science Year : 2022

Basin-Scale Underway Quantitative Survey of Surface Microplankton Using Affordable Collection and Imaging Tools Deployed From Tara

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World ocean plankton quantitative biodiversity data are still severely limited due to the high cost and logistical constraints associated to oceanographic vessels and collection/analytic devices. Here, we report the first use of an affordable and open-source plankton collection and imaging kit designed for citizen biological oceanography, composed of a high-speed surface plankton net, the Coryphaena , together with a portable in-flux automated imaging device, the PlanktoScope . We deployed this kit in December 2020 along a latitudinal transect across the Atlantic Ocean on board the schooner Tara , during the first Leg of her ‘Mission Microbiomes’. The citizen-science instruments were benchmarked and compared at sea to state-of-the-art protocols applied in previous Tara expeditions, i.e. on-board water pumping and filtration system and the FlowCam to respectively sample and image total micro-plankton. Results show that the Coryphaena can collect pristine micro-plankton at speed up to 11 knots, generating quantitative imaging data comparable to those obtained from total, on-board filtered water, and that the PlanktoScope and FlowCam provide comparable data. Overall, the new citizen tools provided a complete picture of surface micro-plankton composition, biogeography and biogeochemistry, opening the way toward a global, cooperative, and frugal plankton observatory network at planetary scale.
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hal-03877194 , version 1 (29-11-2022)

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Zoé Mériguet, Anna Oddone, David Le Guen, Thibaut Pollina, Romain Bazile, et al.. Basin-Scale Underway Quantitative Survey of Surface Microplankton Using Affordable Collection and Imaging Tools Deployed From Tara. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022, 9, ⟨10.3389/fmars.2022.916025⟩. ⟨hal-03877194⟩
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