Journal of Micropalaeontology
Journal of Micropalaeontology
JM
Advances and challenges in modern and benthic foraminifera research: a special issue dedicated to Professor John Murray
Special issues
Special issues
Advances and challenges in modern and benthic foraminifera research: a special issue dedicated to Professor John Murray
Editor(s): Andrew Gooday (National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom), Malcolm Hart (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom), Babette Hoogakker (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom), Irina Polovodova Asteman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), and Christopher Smart (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
This special issue celebrates the life of Professor Emeritus John Murray (University of Southampton), a world-leading benthic foraminiferalogist, who sadly passed away in October 2021. It comprises articles that reflect the wide range of John’s research and teaching on benthic foraminifera from both the modern and the fossil record and from all marine environments (salt marches to the abyss), including (but not limited to) contributions that focus on ecology and biological–palaeontological interactions.

Review process: all papers of this special issue underwent the regular peer-review process of the Journal of Micropalaeontology handled by guest editors designated by the JM editor-in-chief.

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28 Oct 2025
Trace metal adsorption in three serial flow-through systems: implications for foraminiferal culturing experiments
Christian Helmut Gfatter, Jeremy D. Owens, and Michael Martínez-Colón
J. Micropalaeontol., 44, 381–399, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-381-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-381-2025, 2025
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11 Sep 2025
Assessment of anthropogenic metal pollution in Bagnoli (Gulf of Naples) through changes in foraminiferal assemblages and shell chemistry
Leon Plakolm, Sergio Balzano, Matthias Nagy, Petra Heinz, Daniela Gruber, Katy Schmidt, Martin Stockhausen, Thilo Hofmann, and Michael Lintner
J. Micropalaeontol., 44, 345–363, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-345-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-345-2025, 2025
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08 Sep 2025
Analysis of a human-mediated microbioinvasion: the global spread of the benthic foraminifer Trochammina hadai Uchio, 1962
Mary McGann, Maria Holzmann, Vincent M. P. Bouchet, Sibelle Trevisan Disaró, Patrícia P. B. Eichler, David W. Haig, Stephen J. Himson, Hiroshi Kitazato, Jean-Charles Pavard, Irina Polovodova Asteman, André R. Rodrigues, Clément M. Tremblin, Masashi Tsuchiya, Mark Williams, Phoebe O'Brien, Josefin Asplund, Malou Axelsson, and Thomas D. Lorenson
J. Micropalaeontol., 44, 275–317, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-275-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-275-2025, 2025
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29 Aug 2025
The influence of three common antibiotics on coastal benthic foraminifera: implications for culture experiments and biomonitoring
Michael Lintner, Irina Polovodova Asteman, Wolfgang Wanek, Petra Heinz, Jan Goleń, and Jarosław Tyszka
J. Micropalaeontol., 44, 263–273, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-263-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-263-2025, 2025
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29 Aug 2025
Towards a more integrative approach for environmental decision-making in Brazilian transitional waters: improving biomonitoring surveys with a benthic foraminiferal biotic index
Vincent M. P. Bouchet, Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa, Carla Bonetti, Leticia Burone, Pierre Belart, Wania Duleba, Fabio Francescangeli, Fabrizio Frontalini, Lazaro Laut, Débora S. Raposo, André R. Rodrigues, Sibelle Trevisan Disaró, Daniel Vicente Pupo, Fabrício Leandro Damasceno, Jean-Charles Pavard, and Maria Virgínia Alves Martins
J. Micropalaeontol., 44, 237–261, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-237-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-237-2025, 2025
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26 May 2025
Leisure boat harbours, hidden alien species, and pollution: a case study of Hinsholmskilen harbour (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Irina Polovodova Asteman, Emilie Jaffré, Agata Olejnik, Maria Holzmann, Mary McGann, Kjell Nordberg, Jean-Charles Pavard, Delia Rösel, and Magali Schweizer
J. Micropalaeontol., 44, 119–143, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-119-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-119-2025, 2025
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22 Aug 2024
Distribution of two notodendrodid foraminiferal congeners in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: an example of extreme regional endemism?
Andrea Habura, Stephen P. Alexander, Steven D. Hanes, Andrew J. Gooday, Jan Pawlowski, and Samuel S. Bowser
J. Micropalaeontol., 43, 337–347, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-43-337-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-43-337-2024, 2024
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12 Jul 2024
Benthic foraminifers in coastal habitats of Ras Mohamed Nature Reserve, southern Sinai, Red Sea, Egypt
Ahmed M. BadrElDin and Pamela Hallock
J. Micropalaeontol., 43, 239–267, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-43-239-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-43-239-2024, 2024
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