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Voyage of the Tara Oceans expedition between September 2009 and March 2012, the schooner, and the rationale of the sampling plan. The expedition crossed all major oceans except the Arctic Ocean. To characterize fully plankton ecosystems, we had to sample more than eight orders of magnitude of organism sizes. This required filtering various volumes of seawater.
