Diatoms - Life in glass houses Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs.They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe.
Gelatinous plankton salpes and Beroe(Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium extensum(Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les Dinoflagellés - Ceratium hexacanthum chaîne de Ceratium hexacanthum qui restent les uns à la suites des autres au fur et à mesure des divisions. Le mouvement des flagelles est bien visible.
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)
