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 and plastics were sampled using the Manta (300-micron mesh size) at sea surface.

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GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/58ee1958-b77c-487b-ac93-ac8cf77bef46
Homepage: https://ecotaxa.obs-vlfr.fr/api/collections/by_title?q=Global+scale+sur…
Citation: Mériguet Z, Lombard F, Bourdin G, Jalabert L, Caray--Counil L, Maury J, Elineau A, Luiza Pedrotti M, Gorsky G, The Tara Pacific Consortium (2026). Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with Manta Net and imaged with ZooScan during the Tara Pacific Expedition. Version 1.4. EcoTaxa. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.data-terra.org/resource?r=tara-pac-zooscan-manta&v=1.4 https://doi.org/10.15468/2pfrqd accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-04-08.