Issues11

Volume 6, No. 1 (2016)

Original papers

Biometrical parameters, pigment content and functional characteristics of photosynthetic apparatus of Bistorta vivipara within the territory of West Spitsbergen

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Eugenia Fedorovna Markovskaya¹, Natalya Yurievna Shmakova², Elena Valentinovna Novichonok³

¹Petrozavodsk State University, Ecological-biological Faculty, Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Lenina, 33, Petrozavodsk 185910, Russia

²Avrorin Polar-alpine Botanical Garden-Institute, Kola Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Fersman street, 18a, Apatity, 184209, Russia

³Forest Research Institute, Laboratory of Physiology and Cytology of Woody Plants, Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushkinskaya street 11, Petrozavodsk, 185910, Russia

Some of the metabolic changes in expedition members caused by diet and activities performed during a stay at the Czech Antarctic base (Short Communication)	Landing page	13-20
Alena Žákovská, Olivie Zezulová Department of Animal Physiology and Immunology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Phototrophic microflora colonizing substrates of man-made origin in Billefjorden Region, Central Svalbard

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21-30

Lenka Raabová¹, Josef Elster^2,3, Ľubomír Kováčik¹

¹Department of Botany, Comenius University in Bratislava, Révová 39, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovakia

²Centre for Polar Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Na Zlaté stoce 3, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

³Phycology Centrum, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 379 82 Třeboň, Czech Republic

Satellite tagging and seasonal distribution of harp seal (juveniles) of the white sea-Barents sea stock	Landing page	31-42
Vladislav Nikolaevich Svetochev, Nikolay Nikolaevich Kavtsevich, Olga Nagimovna Svetocheva Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Kola Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimirskaya St. 17, 183010 Murmansk, Russia

*UV-B effects on filamentous alga Zygnema* strain (EEL201) from Antarctica**	Landing page	43-53
Marina Prieto Amador University of Salamanca, Faculty of Biology, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca, Spain

Effects of short-term low temperature stress on chlorophyll fluorescence transients in Antarctic lichen species	Landing page	54-65
Michaela Marečková^{1, 2}, Miloš Barták¹¹Laboratory of Photosynthetic Processes, Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic ²Plant Cytogenomics Group, CEITEC – Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Diversity of the Cyanoprokaryota in polar deserts of Innvika cove North-East Land (Nordaustlandet) Island, Spitsbergen	Landing page	66-79
Denis Davydov Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute Kola SC RAS, 184256, Botanical Garden, Kirovsk, Murmansk Region, Russia

Thallus morphology of two Antarctic foliose lichens evaluated by a digital optical microscopy approach

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Rastislav Ošťádal¹, Jana Hazdrová²

¹Keyence International (Belgium) NV/SA, Keyence Microscope, Europe, Na Strži 65/1702, 140 62 Praha 4, Czech Republic

²Laboratory of Photosynthetic Processes, Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, University Campus – Bohunice, Kamenice 5, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic

Dehydration-induced responses of primary photosynthetic processes and spectral reflectance indices in Antarctic Nostoc commune	Landing page	87-95
Miloš Barták, Jana Hazdrová, Kateřina Skácelová, Josef Hájek Laboratory of Photosynthetic Processes, Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, University Campus – Bohunice, Kamenice 5, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic

Effects of controlled oxidative stress and uncouplers on primary photosynthetic processes in vegetative cells of Antarctic alga Zygnema sp.

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96-107

Christos Kakkou¹, Miloš Barták², Josef Hájek², Kateřina Skácelová², Jana Hazdrová²

¹Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, University campus, Building A17, Kamenice 5, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic

²Laboratory of Photosynthetic Processes, Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, University Campus – Bohunice, Kamenice 5, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic

Abstracts - ECOSYS 2014, ANTARCTIC BIOSCIENCES 2015 (click here to see all abstracts)

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ECOSYS 2014
Adaptations of a native Subantarctic flightless fly to dehy-dration stress: more plastic than we thought?
Quantification of iron-rich volcanogenic dust emissions and deposition over ocean from Icelandic dust sources
Active layer thickness variability at the Johann Gregor Mendel CALM-S site on James Ross Island. Preliminary results
Seasonal changes in microbial diversity, biological activity and nutrient cycling in snow and ice-bound ecosystems on Signy Island, maritime Antarctica
ANTARCTIC BIOSCIENCES 2015
Physiology and 3D structure of the Nostoc sp. colonies
Diversity of microfungi from James Ross Island, Antarctica
Some parasites like it cold: parasitological research progress in Prince Gustav Channel, Antarctica
Distribution of Genus Phormidesmis in Polar Regions
Modern methods for detection of biological active compounds in cyanobacteria from polar regions
Antarctic bacteria as a source of new antimicrobials

A Step-Change in the Recognition of Women in Antarctic Science (Information Paper)

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¹Strugnell, J., ¹Shafee, T., ²Wilson, N., ³Downey, R., ⁴Stevens, C., ⁵Shaw, J., ⁶Baeseman, J.

¹La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

²Western Australian Museum/University of Western Australia, Australia

³Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

⁴NIWA/University of Auckland, New Zealand

⁵The University of Queensland, Australia

⁶Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Exploring a Sub-Antarctic Wilderness (BOOK REVIEW)
Brian J. Huntley (ed.)

Publisher: Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, Stellenbosch, soft cover.

ISBN: 978-0-620-70521-9, 268 pages, First Edition, 2016.

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Miloš Barták

Department of Experimental Biology, Laboratory of Photosynthetic Processes, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, University Campus – Bohunice, Kamenice 5, 62500, Brno, Czech Republic