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Three major mesoplanktonic communities resolved by in situ imaging in the upper 500 m of the global ocean

Jean‐olivier Irisson
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Aim The distribution of mesoplankton communities have been poorly studied at global scale, especially from in situ instruments. This study aims to (1) describe the global distribution of mesoplankton communities in relation with their environment and (2) assess the ability of various environmental-based ocean regionalisations to explain the distribution of these communities. Location Global ocean, 0-500 m depth. Time period 2008 - 2019 Major taxa studied 28 groups of large mesoplanktonic and macroplanktonic organ- isms, covering Metazoa, Rhizaria and Cyanobacteria. Methods From a global data set of 2500 vertical profiles making use of the Underwater Vision Profiler 5 (UVP5), an in situ imaging instrument, we studied the global distribu- tion of large (> 600 μm) mesoplanktonic organisms. Among the 6.8 million imaged ob- jects, 330,000 were large zooplanktonic organisms and phytoplankton colonies, the rest consisting of marine snow particles. Multivariate ordination (PCA) and clustering were used to describe patterns in community composition, while comparison with existing regionalisations was performed with regression methods (RDA). Results Within the observed size range, epipelagic plankton communities were Trichodesmium-enriched in the intertropical Atlantic, Copepoda-enriched at high latitudes and in upwelling areas, and Rhizaria-enriched in oligotrophic areas. In the mesopelagic layer, Copepoda-enriched communities were also found at high latitudes and in the At- lantic Ocean, while Rhizaria-enriched communities prevailed in the Peruvian upwelling system and a few mixed communities were found elsewhere. The comparison between the distribution of these communities and a set of existing regionalisations of the ocean suggested that the structure of plankton communities described above is mostly driven by basin-level environmental conditions. Main conclusions n both layers, three types of plankton communities emerged and seemed to be mostly driven by regional environmental conditions. This work sheds light on the role not only of metazoans, but also of unexpected large protists and cyanobacteria in structuring large mesoplankton communities.
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hal-04164166 , version 1 (18-07-2023)

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Thelma Panaïotis, Marcel Babin, Tristan Biard, François Carlotti, Laurent Coppola, et al.. Three major mesoplanktonic communities resolved by in situ imaging in the upper 500 m of the global ocean. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2023, 32 (11), pp.1991-2005. ⟨10.1111/geb.13741⟩. ⟨hal-04164166⟩
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