Quantitative imaging datasets of surface micro-  to mesoplankton communities and microplastic  across the Pacific and North Atlantic  oceans from the Tara Pacific expedition

Mériguet, Zoé; Bourdin, Guillaume; Kristan, Nathaniel; Jalabert, Laetitia; Bun, Olivier; Picheral, Marc; Caray-Counil, Louis; Maury, Juliette; Pedrotti, Maria-Luiza; Elineau, Amanda; Paz-Garcia, David A.; Karp-Boss, Lee; Gorsky, Gaby; Lombard, Fabien; the Tara Pacific Consortium Coordinators team,

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2761-2025

Articles | Volume 17, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2761-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2761-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 6

Data description paper

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19 Jun 2025

Data description paper |

| 19 Jun 2025

Quantitative imaging datasets of surface micro- to mesoplankton communities and microplastic across the Pacific and North Atlantic oceans from the Tara Pacific expedition

Zoé Mériguet, Guillaume Bourdin, Nathaniel Kristan, Laetitia Jalabert, Olivier Bun, Marc Picheral, Louis Caray-Counil, Juliette Maury, Maria-Luiza Pedrotti, Amanda Elineau, David A. Paz-Garcia, Lee Karp-Boss, Gaby Gorsky, Fabien Lombard, and the Tara Pacific Consortium Coordinators team

Data sets

Global scale surface micro-plankton dataset collected with Bongo nets and imaged with FlowCam during the Tara Pacific Expedition Zoé Mériguet et al. https://doi.org/10.17882/102694

Global scale surface micro-plankton dataset collected with Deck Net and imaged with FlowCam during the Tara Pacific Expedition Zoé Mériguet et al. https://doi.org/10.17882/102697

Global scale surface meso-plankton dataset collected with High-Speed Net and imaged with ZooScan during the Tara Pacific Expedition Zoé Mériguet et al. https://doi.org/10.17882/102336

Global scale surface meso-plankton and microplastics dataset collected with Manta Net and imaged with ZooScan during the Tara Pacific Expedition Zoé Mériguet et al. https://doi.org/10.17882/102537

Tara Pacific Manta 333 microns plankton Maria Luiza Pedrotti et al. https://ecotaxa.obs-vlfr.fr/prj/1344

Tara Pacific Manta 333 microns plastics Maria Luiza Pedrotti et al. https://ecotaxa.obs-vlfr.fr/prj/1345

Tara Pacific HSN 330 microns Zoé Mériguet and Fabien Lombard https://ecotaxa.obs-vlfr.fr/prj/11292

Tara Pacific Bongo 20 microns - Subset 30 % <500 Pix Zoé Mériguet et al. https://ecotaxa.obs-vlfr.fr/prj/11370

Tara Pacific Bongo 20 microns - Subset 100 % >501 Pix Zoé Mériguet et al. https://ecotaxa.obs-vlfr.fr/prj/11369

Tara Pacific Bongo 20 microns - Subset 100 % >501 Pix Zoé Mériguet and Fabien Lombard https://ecotaxa.obs-vlfr.fr/prj/11353

Tara Pacific Bongo 20 microns - Subset 100 % >501 Pix Zoé Mériguet and Fabien Lombard https://ecotaxa.obs-vlfr.fr/prj/11341

Environmental data at the sampling event level collected with Inline instruments, almanach, models and satellites during the Tara Pacific Expedition 2016-2018 (Version1) [Data set] Fabien Lombard et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6445609

Short summary

This study presents imaging datasets from the Tara Pacific expedition, covering multiple plankton sizes and a wide sampling area in Pacific waters. By sampling both open-ocean and island areas, these data can show how plankton size, diversity and abundance change with different environments. We also highlight the usefulness of high-speed plankton sampling when it is not possible to slow the boat during sailing as well as the value of this technique with respect to extending the sampling coverage and frequency.