Belviso S., Sciandra, A. and C. Copin-Montégut (2003) : Mesoscale features of surface water DMSP and DMS concentrations in the Atlantic Ocean off Morocco and in the Mediterranean Sea. Deep-Sea Research I, 50, 543-555.

Belviso, S., Claustre, H. and J.C. Marty, 2000. Evaluation of the utility of chemo-taxonomic pigments as a surrogate for particulate DMSP. Limnology and Oceanography, 46, 989-995.

Béthoux, J.P., Durieux de Madron, X., Nyffeler, F and D. Tailliez (2001). Deep water in the western Mediterranean: peculiar 1999 and 2000 characteristics, shelf formation hypothesis, variability since 1970 and geochemical inferences. Journal of Marine Systems 33/34, 117-131.

Bosc, E., A. Bricaud and D. Antoine (2004).  Seasonal and interannual variability in algal biomass and primary production in the Mediterranean Sea, as derived from four years of SeaWiFS observations. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18, GB1005, 10.1029/ 2003GB002034.

Bricaud, A., E. Bosc and D. Antoine (2001). Algal biomass and sea surface temperature in the Mediterranean Basin : intercomparison of data from various satellite sensors, and implications for primary production estimates. Remote Sensing of Environment, 81, 163-178.

Bricaud, A., Claustre, H., Ras, J. and K. Oubelkheir (2004). Natural varaibility of phytoplankton absorption in oceanic waters : influence of the size structure of algal populations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, C11010, doi:10.1029/ 2004JC002419,

Claustre, H., Morel, A., Hooker, S.B., Babin, M., Antoine, D., Oubelkheir, K., Bricaud, A., Leblanc, K., Quéguiner, B. and S. Maritorena (2001). Is red rain making the Mediterranean Sea greener? Geophysical Research Letters, 29, 10, 10.1029/2001GL014056.

Claustre, H., Hooker, S.B., Van Heukelem, Berthon, J.-F., Barlow, R. Ras, J., Sessions, H., Targa, C., Thomas, C.S., van der Linde, D. et J.-C. Marty (2004). An intercomparison of HPLC phytoplankton methods using in situ samples: Application to remote sensing and database activities. Marine Chemistry, 85, 41-61. 

Dolan J.R., Claustre, H., Moutin, T., and F. Carlotti (2001). Microzooplankton tintinnids diversity. A field study of relationships with ressources, competitors and predators. Deep Sea Research I, 49, 1217-1232.

Dolan, J.R., Lemée, R., Gasparini, S., Mousseau L and H. C. Heyndrickx (2006). Probing diversity in the plankton: using patterns in Tintinnids (planktonic marine ciliates) to identify mechanisms. Hydrobiologia, 555, 143–157.

Garczarek, L., Dufresne, A., Rousvoal, S., West, N., Mazard, S., Marie, D., Claustre, H., Raimbault, P., Scanlan, D. and F. Partensky (2006). High vertical and low horizontal microdiversity of Prochlorococcus Genotypes in the Mediteranean Sea in summer. FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Gómez, F. and H. Claustre (2003). The genus Asterodinium (Dinophyceae) as a possible biological indicator of warming in the western Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 83, 173-174.

Gorsky, G., Prieur, L., Taupier-Letage, I., Stemmann L. and M. Picherall (2001). Large Particulate Matter (LPM) in the Western Mediterranean. I - LPM distribution related to hydrodynamics. Journal of Marine Systems 33/34, 289-311.

Guieu, C., Bozec Y., Blain, S., Ridame, C., Sarthou, G. and Leblond, N (2002). Impact of high Saharan dust inputs on dissolved iron concentrations in the Mediterranean Sea, Geophysical Research Letters, 10.1029/2001GL014454.

Hooker, S.B. et A. Morel (2003) Platform and environmental effects on above- and in-water determinations of water-leaving radiances. Journal of Atmospheric and Ocean Technology, 20, 187-205..

Loisel H., E. Bosc  D. Stramski  K. Oubelkheir and P.-Y. Deschamps (2001). Seasonal variability of the backscattering coefficient in the Mediterranean Sea based on Satellite SeaWiFS imagery. Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 4203-4206

Marie D., Zhu F., Balague V., Ras J., Vaulot D. (2006) Eukaryotic picoplankton communities of the Mediterranean Sea in summer assessed by molecular approaches (DGGE, TTGE, QPCR). FEMS Microbiology Ecology,55, 403-415

Morel, A., Belanger, S., Babin, M. (2006). Improved detection of turbid waters from ocean color sensors information. Remote Sensing of Environment, 102, 237-249

Moutin, T., Thingstad, T.F., Van Wambeke, F., Marie D. and H. Claustre (2001). Is the predominance of marine cyanobacteria related to phosphate-uptake competition? Limnology and Oceanography, Limnology and Oceanography, 47, 1562-1567.

Oubelkheir, K., Claustre, H., Bricaud, A., Babin, M (2006). Partitioning total spectral absorption and colored detrital material contribution. In prep. 

Oubelkheir, K., Claustre, H., Babin, M., Sciandra, A. (2005). The comparative bio-optical and biogeochemical properties of contrasted trophic regimes. Limnology and Oceanography, 50,1795-1809.

Panagiotopoulos, C. and Sempéré, R. (2004). The molecular distribution of combined aldoses in sinking particles in various oceanic conditions. Marine Chemistry, 95, 31-49

Panagiotopoulos, C. and Sempéré, R. (2005). Analytical methods for the determination of sugars in marine samples: A historical perspective and future directions. Limnology and Oceanography methods, 3, 419-454.

Pantoja, S., Repeta, D.J., Sachs, J.P. and D.M. Sigman (2002). Stable isotope constraints on the nitrogen cycle of the Mediterranean Sea water column. Deep-Sea Research I, 49, 1609-1621.  

Ridame, C., Moutin, T. and C. Guieu (2003). Does phosphate adsorption onto Saharan dust explain the unusual N/P ratio in the Mediterranean Sea? Oceanologica Acta 26, 629-634.

Uitz., J., Claustre, H., Morel, A., and S. Hooker  (2006). From surface chlorophyll a to phytoplankton community composition in oceanic waters. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, (C08005, doi:10.1029/2005JC003207).

Van Wambeke F., Christaki U., Giannakourou A, Moutin T, and S. Souvemerzoglou S. (2002). Longitudinal and vertical trends of bacterial limitation by phosphorus and carbon in the Mediterranean Sea. Microbial Ecology, 43(1), 119-133.