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.
Embryos and larvae
Drifting in the currents, embryos and larvae perpetuate the species and are food for multitudes.
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Arctic - Animation Clement Fontana
Coccolithophore (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as obtained by the ocean color sensor SeaWiFS in the Atlantic Ocean.
Ctenaria Lampetia pancerina (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Scientists collecting seawater samples from the rosette (Photo : Stacy Knapp, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)