New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illustrated Guide

Book Author Wendy Nelson
Rights Available World excl. NZ

The definitive and expert guide to the seaweeds of New Zealand’s coastal waters.

This fully revised edition of the first ever photographic identification guide to New Zealand’s unique marine algae is by the country’s pre-eminent seaweed expert, Dr Wendy Nelson.

New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illustrated Guide describes over 150 genera and 250 key species across three main sections covering green, brown and red algae. Each species entry includes up-to-date information on nomenclature, type locality, morphology, habitat and distribution and gives notes on identification and key characters.

There are over 500 illustrations, and each entry is illustrated by either underwater or coastal photographs, supplemented by herbarium scans, microscopic photographs or reproductions of the paintings of celebrated botanical artist Nancy Adams.

About the Author
Wendy Nelson (FRSNZ, MNZM) is a Senior Research Fellow at Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira and an honorary academic in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland.

She specialises in marine phycology, particularly the biosystematics of macroalgae of New Zealand, with research on floristics, evolution and phylogeny, as well as ecology and life history studies. Recently, Wendy has been focusing on research at Rangitāhua as part of research programme led by Ngāti Kuri with Auckland Museum, as well as research on coralline algae.

In 2016, she was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi Hutton Medal, for outstanding work by a researcher in New Zealand in the earth, plant, and animal sciences, and in 2020 the Nancy Burbidge Medal from the Australasian Systematic Botany Society.