Issues7

Volume 4, No. 1 (2014)

Original papers

Some comments on the flow velocity and thinning of Svenbreen, Dickson Land, Svalbard	Landing page	1 - 8
Jakub Małecki Adam Mickiewicz University, Cryosphere Research Department, ul. Dzięgielowa 27, 61-680, Poznań, Poland

Effects of moderate- to high-level physical performance on blood levels of cardiac biomarkers in extreme conditions of Antarctica

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Kristian Brat¹, Zdeněk Merta¹, Pavel Ševčík²

¹Department of Respiratory Diseases and TB, University Hospital Brno and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

²Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Ostrava and Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Phenotypic and ecological diversity of freshwater coccoid cyanobacteria from maritime Antarctica and Islands of NW Weddell Sea. II.

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Jiří Komárek

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

*Molecular taxonomic study of Trichinella spp. from mammals of Russian Arctic and subarctic areas*	Landing page	40 - 46
Irina M. Odoevskaya¹, Sergei E. Spiridonov² ¹GNU K.I. Skryabin All-Russian Institute of Helminthology, Bolshaya Cheremushinskaja, 28, Moscow, 117259, Russia ²Centre for Parasitology, AN Severtsov´s Institute of Ecology and Evolution. Russian Academy of Science, 33 Leninsky prospect, Moscow, 117071, Russia

Effect of temperature and increased concentration of CO₂ on growth and photosynthetic activity of polar alga Trebouxia sp.

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Luděk Sehnal, Peter Váczi, Miloš Barták

Department of Plant Physiology and Anatomy, Institute of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Metadata for a long-term climate series from the Russian meteorological station “Pyramiden” (1948-1957) at Svalbard (Short Communication)

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Boris V.Ivanov^1,2, Pavel N. Sviashchennikov^2,1, Danila M. Zhuravskiy¹, Alexey K. Pavlov^1,3, Eirik J. Forland⁴

¹Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
²Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
³Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
⁴Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway

Long-term fluorometric measurements of photosynthetic processes in Antarctic moss Bryum sp. during austral summer season	Landing page	63 - 72
Miloš Barták, Peter Váczi Department of Plant Physiology and Anatomy, Institute of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic

*Constraints on dendrochronological dating of Salix polaris* from central Spitsbergen (**Short Communication)	Landing page	73 - 79
Agata Buchwal^1,2 ¹Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University, Dzięgielowa 27, 61-680 Poznań, Poland ²Dendroecology Group, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Stabilisation of geodetic points in the surroundings of Johann Gregor Mendel Station, James Ross Island, Antarctica	Landing page	80 - 89
Zdeněk Stachoň¹, Jan Russnák^1, Daniel Nývlt^{1, 2}, Filip Hrbáček¹ ¹Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic ²Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic

*Photoinhibition of photosynthesis in Antarctic lichen Usnea antarctica. II. Analysis of non-photochemical quenching mechanisms activated by low to medium light doses*	Landing page	90 - 99
Petra Očenášová, Miloš Barták, Josef Hájek Department of Plant Physiology and Anatomy, Institute of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Book reviews

Climate and Climate Change at Hornsund, Svalbard

Andrzej A. Marsz and Anna Styszyńska (eds.)

Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, 2013.

ISBN: 978-83-7421-191-8, 402 pages.

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Pavel Prošek

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

The fast-changing Arctic. Rethinking Arctic security for a warmer world

Barry Scott Zellen (ed.)

University of Calgary Press, Northern Light Series, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2013.

Co-publisher: Arctic Institute of North America.

ISBN:978-1-55238-646-0, soft cover, 395 pages.

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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

European Arctic – sea users guide

Jan Marcin Węsławski (ed.)

Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, 2013.

ISBN 978-83-928355-5-4, 109 pages.

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