Original papers

Report of seabird observations in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during the austral summers of 2005 - 2008 (Short Communication)

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Takashi Iwata^{1, 2*}, Toshihiko Hayashi³, Nobue Takasawa-Kasamatsu²

¹Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan

²Oceanographic Observation Center, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan

³TRV ShinyoMaru, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan

New record of Euphrasia frigida Pugsl. in Colesdalen, Svalbard (Short Communication)

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Eugenia Markovskaya^1*, Nataliya Shmakova², Valentina Kostina²

¹Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Petrozavodsk State University, Lenina, 33, Petrozavodsk, 185910, Russia

²Polar–Alpine Botanical Garden–Institute, Kola Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast, 184250, Russia

Biodiversity of freshwater algae and cyanobacteria on deglaciated northern part of James Ross Island, Antarctica. A preliminary study.

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Kateřina Skácelová^1*, Miloš Barták¹, Pavel Coufalík², Daniel Nývlt¹, Kateřina Trnková¹

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

²Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, University Campus – Bohunice, Kamenice 5, 625 00, Brno, Czech Republic

New methods to reconstruct clast transport history in different glacial sedimentary environments: Case study for Old Red sandstone clasts from polythermal Hørbyebreen and Bertilbreen valley glaciers, Central Svalbard

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Martin Hanáček^1*, Daniel Nývlt^2,1, Jan Flašar³, Václav Stacke⁴, Peter Mida⁵, Jiří Lehejček^6, Gabriela Tóthová⁷, Michal Břežný⁸, Barbora Procházková⁵, Tomáš Uxa⁵, Iva Křenovská⁷

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

²Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 267/2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic

³Department of Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6, 128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic

⁴Centre of Biology, Geoscience and Environmental Education, University of West Bohemia, Klatovská 51, 306 19 Plzeň, Czech Republic

⁵Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6, 128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic

⁶Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamýcká 1176, 165 21 Praha 6 – Suchdol, Czech Republic

⁷Department of Geological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic

⁸Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 710 00 Ostrava - Slezská Ostrava, Czech Republic

Phenotypic and ecological diversity of freshwater coccoid cyanobacteria from maritime Antarctica and islands of NW Weddell Sea.
I. Synechococcales.

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Jiří  Komárek

Institute of Botany AS CR, Třeboň, and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Diversity of microfungi in ornithogenic soils from Beaufort Island, continental Antarctic

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Siti Aisyah Alias^1*, Jerzy Smykla², Chin Yoon Ming¹, Mohammed Rizman-Idid^{1, 3}, Peter Convey^{1, 4}

²Department of Biodiversity, Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Mickiewicza 33, PL-31-120 Krakow, Poland

³Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, C308, IGS Building, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

^1,4British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, United Kingdom

Four aeroterrestrial algae grown at a special substrate of deglaciated coastal areas of Petuniabukta, Svalbard

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Lenka Raabová^*, Ľubomír Kováčik

Comenius University in Bratislava, Department of Botany, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Revova 39, SK-811 02 Bratislava, Slovakia

Sensitivity of Antarctic freshwater algae to salt stress assessed by fast chlorophyll fluorescence transient

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David Miguel Vilumbrales¹, Kateřina Skácelová², Miloš Barták^2*

¹University of Salamanca, Faculty of Biology, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, 370 07  Salamanca,  Spain

²Masaryk University, Brno, Department of Experimental Biology, Laboratory of Photosynthesis, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Isolation of human pathogen Escherichia albertii from faeces of seals (Leptonychotes weddelli) in James Ross Island, Antarctica

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Ivo Sedláček^1*, Linda Grillová², Eva Kroupová¹, Jitka Černohlávková¹, David Šmajs²

¹Czech Collection of Microorganisms, Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Tvrdého 14, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

²Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Cloudiness and weather variation in central Svalbard in July 2013 as related to atmospheric circulation

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Kamil Láska^1,2*, Zuzana Chládová^3,2, Klára Ambrožová¹, Jan Husák^4,5

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

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

³Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Boční II/1401, Praha, Czech Republic

⁴Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, 710 00 Ostrava - Slezská Ostrava, Czech Republic

⁵Museum of Wallachian region, Horní náměstí 2, 755 01, Czech Republic

Nitrate and ammonium ions contents in field minibioreactors with Antarctic freshwater autotrophs

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Pavel Coufalík¹, Peter Váczi², Ondřej Zvěřina¹, Kateřina Trnková², Kateřina Skácelová², Miloš Barták², Josef Komárek¹

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

²Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic

Mapping of Greenland landscape using aerial photography and orthophotography (Technical Note)

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Petr Vávrů^1*, Helge Viken²

¹Geodis, Ltd.,  Lazaretní 11a, 615 00 Brno, Czech Republic

²Rambøll*, Henrik Wergelands gate 29, 4666 Kristiansand, Norway

(* former name Unico Mapping AS)

Annual water temperature courses in two contrasting lakes at James Ross Island, Antarctica (Short Communication)

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

Book reviews

Arctic Shorebirds in North America: A Decade of Monitoring. Studies in Avian Biology No. 44.

Jonathan Bard and Victoria Johnston                                

University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, 2012. ISBN:978-0-520-27310-8, 302 pages.

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Miroslav Čapek

Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Květná 8, 603 65 Brno

Frozen in Time. Prehistoric life in Antarctica.  

Jeffrey D. Stilwell and John A. Long                          

CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia, 2011.ISBN: 978-0-643-09635-6, hardback, 238 pages.

Book Review.

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

Grönland. Ein kleiner Pflanzenführer.

Elke Lindner, Hagen Held and Ludwig Martins                   

Arktis Kleinverlag, Spitsbergen.de (Rolf Stange), 2011. ISBN 978-9379903-11-3, 978-3937903118, 978-3-8334-5132-4, softcover, 269 pages.

Book Review.

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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

The Vegetation of Antartica through Geological Time.

David.J. Cantrill and Imogene Poole

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012. ISBN 978−0−521−85598−3, 480 pages.

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¹National Museum Prague, Department of Palaeontology, Václavské náměstí 68, 115 79, Praha 1
²Department of Experimental Biology, Laboratory of Photosynthetic Processes, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, University Campus – Bohunice, Kamenice 5, 62500, Brno, Czech Republic