The Tara Pacific expedition sampled differents ecosystems of the oceans during a two-year expedition (2016-2018), collecting environmental data and surface plankton of Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, from viruses to metazoans, on board the 36-metre Tara Schooner. Mesoplankton was sampled using the High-Speed Net (330-micron mesh size), a net designed to collect plankton while sailing at high speed.

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GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/13a46571-f9e3-4b90-941c-9c54a283c93c
Homepage: https://ecotaxa.obs-vlfr.fr/api/collections/by_title?q=Global+scale+sur…
Citation: Mériguet Z, Lombard F, Bourdin G, Jalabert L, Bun O, Caray--Counil L, Elineau A, Gorsky G, The Tara Pacific Consortium (2026). Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with High-Speed Net and imaged with ZooScan during the Tara Pacific Expedition. Version 1.2. EcoTaxa. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=tara-pac-zooscan-hsn&v=1.2 https://doi.org/10.15468/68xq5n accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-04-08.