New Zealand Seaweeds An Identification Guide

About this book

A fully revised and completely redesigned edition of the first photographic identification guide to New Zealand's unique marine algae, by the country's pre-eminent seaweed expert Wendy Nelson. Across three main sections covering green, brown and red algae, over 150 genera and 250 key species are described. Each species entry includes up-to-date information on nomenclature, type locality, morphology, habitat, distribution and notes on identification and key characteristics.

New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illustrated Guide has over 500 illustrations, with each entry illustrated by either underwater or coastal photographs and supplemented by herbarium scans, microscopic photographs or reproductions of celebrated botanical artist Nancy Adams' paintings.

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Biography

Wendy Nelson is one of New Zealand's leading experts in the field of marine macroalgae and has been named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the marine environment. She works with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and has more than three decades of published research to her name.