Original papers

Diatoms in cryoconite holes and adjacent proglacial freshwater sediments, Nordenskiöld glacier (Spitsbergen, High Arctic)

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112-133

Petra Vinšová¹, Eveline Pinseel^2,3,4, Tyler J. Kohler¹, Bart Van de Vijver^3,4, Jakub D. Žárský ¹, Jan Kavan⁵, Kateřina Kopalová^1,5,6

¹Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Ecology, Viničná 7, CZ-128 44 Prague 2, Czech Republic

²Ghent University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Protistology & Aquatic Ecology (PAE), Krijgslaan 281-S8, BE-9000 Ghent, Belgium

³Botanic Garden Meise, Department Bryophyta & Thallophyta, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860 Meise, Belgium

⁴University of Antwerp, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Ecosystem Management Research Group (ECOBE), Universiteitsplein 1, BE-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium

⁵University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, Centre for Polar Ecology (CPE), Branišovská 31, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

⁶Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Institute of Botany, Section of Plant Ecology, Dukelská 135, 379 82 Třeboň, Czech Republic

Long-term variability of Atlantic water temperature in the Svalbard fjords in conditions of past and recent global warming

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134-142

Daniil I. Tislenko^1,2, Boris V. Ivanov^2,1

¹Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia

²Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Exploitation of databases in polar research - Data evaluation and outputs

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143-159

Jana Kvíderová^1,2, Josef Elster^1,2, Ivan Iliev³

¹Centre of Polar Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Na Zlaté stoce 3, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

²Institute of Botany AS CR, Dukelská 135, Třeboň, Czech Republic

³Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Street, Bldg. 21, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

Some aspects of the moss population development on the Svalbard glaciers

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160-175

Olga A. Belkina, Anna A. Vilnet

Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden and Institute of the Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Flora and Vegetation, Fersman St. 18a, Apatity, Murmansk Province, 184209, Russia

Antarctic strain of green filamentous alga Zygnema sp. shows a high resistance to photoinhibition under simulated polar conditions

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176-184

Giridharan Thangaraj

Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vileikos 8-212, Kaunas, LT-44404, Lithuania

Dwarf tundra shrubs growth as a proxy for late Holocene climate change

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185-199

Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Science, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Kamýcká 1176, Prague 6 – Suchdol, Czech Republic

Cryoconite holes on frozen lakes as source of interesting extremophilic and extremotolerant organisms

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200-209

Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle – Efficient mapping tool available for recent research in polar regions

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210-221

Radim Stuchlík, Zdeněk Stachoň,  Kamil Láska,  Petr Kubíček

Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic

Physiological performance of a foliose macrolichen Umbilicaria antarctica as affected by supplemental UV-B treatment

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222-229

Mariana Gonzalez Medina, Roxana Avalos-Chacon

Faculty of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico

Analysis of seasonality in trophic relationships of true seals (Phocideae) in the White Sea 

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230-240

Olga N. Svetocheva, Vladislav N. Svetochev

Murmansk marine biological institut, Kola Science Centre, Russsian Academy of Science (MMBI KSC RAS), Timme str. 9, 163060 Arkhangelsk, Russia

Book reviews

Cold-adapted Microorganisms

Isao Yumoto (ed.)

Publisher: Caister Academic Press, 2013.

ISBN: 978-1-908230-26-3, 226 pages.

Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, University Campus – Bohunice, Kamenice 5, 62500, Brno, Czech Republic