Shallow water foraminiferal ecology

A 7 year project (1991-1998) on the biodiversity and ecological distribution of modern brackish and shallow-water (0-100 m) foraminifera around New Zealand was summarised in our 1999 monograph (Abstract of this publication). The reason for these studies was to better understand the environmental controls on benthic foraminiferal distributional patterns for application in the interpretation of fossil foraminiferal faunas.

Study areas:
a. Cavalli Islands, Northland - Published, 1982
b. Pauatahanui Inlet, Wellington - Published, 1994
c. Great Barrier Island, Auckland - Published, 1994
d. Port Pegasus, Stewart Island - Published, 1994
e. Purakanui Inlet, Otago - Published, 1996
f. Wanganui Bight and Queen Charlotte Sound, central New Zealand - Published, 1997
g. Upper Waitemata Harbour, Auckland - Published, 1997
h. Chatham Islands - Published, 1999
i. Campbell and Auckland Islands - Published, 2007
j. Big Lagoon, Wairau Valley, Marlborough - Published, 2010
k. Lake Onoke, Wairarapa – In press, 2011

Selected publications:

• Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R.; Reid, C.M.; Hayward, K.A. 1999: Recent New Zealand shallow-water benthic foraminifera: Taxonomy, ecologic distribution, biogeography, and use in paleoenvironmental assessment., Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 21. 258 p.
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  Abstract of this publication
• Hayward, B.W., Wilson, K., Morley, M.S., Cochran, U., Grenfell, H.R., Sabaa, A.T., Daymond-King, R., 2010: Microfossil record of the Holocene evolution of coastal wetlands in a tectonically-active region of New Zealand. The Holocene 20: 405-421.
• Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R.; Sabaa, A.T.; Daymond-King, R. 2007: Biogeography and ecological distribution of shallow-water benthic foraminifera from the Auckland and Campbell Islands, subantarctic south-west Pacific. Journal of Micropalaeontology 26: 127-143.
• Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R. 1999: Chatham Island foraminifera (Protista), New Zealand. New Zealand Natural Sciences 24: 69-88.
• Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R.; Pullin, A.D.; Reid, C.; Hollis, C.J. 1997: Foraminiferal associations in the upper Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 27(1): 21-51.
• Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R.; Reid, C. 1997: Foraminiferal associations in Wanganui Bight and Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 31: 337-365.
• Reid, C.M.; Hayward, B.W. 1997: Near-shore foraminifera from Taiwawe Bay, Northland, New Zealand. Tane 36: 113-130.
• Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R.; Cairns, G.A.; Smith 1996: Environmental controls on benthic foraminiferal and thecamoebian associations in a New Zealand tidal inlet. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 26(2): 150-171.
• Hayward B.W.; Hollis C.J.; Grenfell H. 1994: Foraminiferal associations in Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 28: 69-95.
• Hayward B.W.; Hollis C. 1994: Brackish foraminifera in New Zealand: A taxonomic and ecologic review. Micropaleontology 40(3): 185-222.
• Hayward, B.W.; Grenfell, H.R. 1994: Foraminiferal associations around northern Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. Records of Auckland Institute and Museum 31: 231-273.
• Hayward B.W.; Triggs C.M. 1994: Computer analysis of benthic foraminiferal associations in a tidal New Zealand inlet. Journal of Micropaleontology 13(2): 103-117.
• Hayward B.W. 1982: Associations of benthic foraminifera (Protozoa:Sarcodina) of inner shelf sediments around the Cavalli Islands, north-east New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater research 16: 27-56.