Original papers

Macro- and microelements in soil profile of the moss-covered area in James Ross Island, Antarctica

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Ondřej Zvěřina¹, Pavel Coufalík¹, Tomáš Vaculovič¹, Jan Kuta², Josef Zeman³, Josef Komárek¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic

²Research Centre for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology (RECETOX), Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 126/3, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic

³Department of Geological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic

Research on cryosestic communities in Svalbard: the snow algae of temporary snowfields in Petuniabukta, Central Svalbard

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Jana Kvíderová^1,2

¹Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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

Strontium isotopic composition as tracer of weathering processes, a review with respect to James Ross Island, Antarctica

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Jitka Míková¹

¹Czech Geological Survey, Klárov 3, Prague 1, CZ-118 21, Czech Republic

Interspecific differences in photosynthetic efficiency and spectral reflectance in two Umbilicaria species from Svalbard during controlled desiccation

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Radek Jupa¹, Josef Hájek¹, Jana Hazdrová¹, Miloš Barták¹*

¹Department of Experimental Biology, Laboratory of Photosynthetic Processes, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, University Campus – Bohunice, Kamenice 5, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic

Photoinhibition of photosynthesis in Antarctic lichen Usnea antarctica. I.  Light intensity- and light duration-dependent changes in functioning of photosystem II

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Miloš Barták¹, Josef Hájek¹, Petra Očenášová¹*

¹Masaryk University, Department of Experimental Biology, Laboratory of Photosynthetic Processes, University Campus Bohunice, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Book review

Life at Extremes: Environments, Organisms and Strategies for Survival

Elanor. M. Bell (ed.)

CABI, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, 2012.

ISBN: 978-1-84593-814-7, 554 pages.

Book Review.

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Miloš Barták

Laboratory of Photosynthetic Processes, Section of Plant Physiology, Department of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic

Changing Cold Environments. A Canadian perspective

Hugh French, Olav Slaymaker (eds.)

Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, 2011.

ISBN 978-0-470-69969-0, 321 pages.

Book Review.

54 - 55

Pavel Prošek

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

Antarctic Wildlife

James Lowen (ed.)

WILDGuides Ltd., Parr House, 63 Hatch Lane, Old Basing, Hampshire RG24 7EB, UK. 2011.

ISBN 978-1-903657-32-4, 240 pages.                

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Miroslav Čapek

Department of Avian Ecology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences, Květná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic

Wieloletnia zmarzlina w wybranych obszarach Tart, Gor Skandynawskich i Spitsbergenu w swietle kompleksowych badan geofizycznych i analiz klimatologicznych

[Permafrost in selected areas of the Tatra Mountains, the Scandinavian mountains and Spitsbergen using comprehensive studies of geophysical and climatological analysis]

Wojciech Dobinski (ed.)   

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego, Katowice, Poland, (English, German sum.), illus. incl. sects., 10 tables, geol. sketch maps, 560 ref., 2011.

ISBN: 978-83-226-2009-0, 172 pages.

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Zbyněk Engel

Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Albertov 6, 128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic