Plankton community in WP2 net (200µm), Point B, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France

WP2 net (200μm mesh) hauled vertically from the bottom (~80m) to the surface, in the morning and afternoon of the same day. Sample preserved in 4% buffered formalin and stored over the long term at the Centre de Collections Planctoniques de Villefranche (CCPv). Sample scanned on a ZooScan, images processed with ZooProcess and sorted taxonomically on EcoTaxa, within the Plateforme d'Imagerie Quantitative de Villefranche (PIQv). The PIQv and CCPv platforms are part of EMBRC-France, a national Research Infrastructure supported by ANR, under the reference ANR-10-INSB-02.