1. Phytophagous mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) recorded from Svalbard, including the description of a new species

   • Agnieszka Kiedrowicz
   • Brian G. Rector
   • Anna Skoracka

   Original Paper Open access 04 January 2016 Pages: 1359 - 1368

   

2. Molecular data support the existence of two species of the Antarctic fish genus Cryodraco (Channichthyidae)

   • Alex Dornburg
   • Ron I. Eytan
   • Thomas J. Near

   Original Paper 26 December 2015 Pages: 1369 - 1379

   

3. Ecophysiology of picophytoplankton in different water masses of the northern Bering Sea

   • Fang Zhang
   • Ling Lin
   • Jianfeng He

   Original Paper 24 December 2015 Pages: 1381 - 1397

   

4. Gross morphology and histology of the olfactory organ of the Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus

   • S. Ferrando
   • L. Gallus
   • E. Pisano

   Original Paper 23 December 2015 Pages: 1399 - 1409

   

5. From the worm’s point of view. I: Environmental settings of benthic ecosystems in Arctic fjord (Hornsund, Spitsbergen)

   • Anna Drewnik
   • Jan Marcin Węsławski
   • Marta Gluchowska

   Original Paper Open access 27 January 2016 Pages: 1411 - 1424

   

6. Birds, nutrients, and climate change: mtDNA haplotype diversity of Arctic Daphnia on Svalbard revisited

   • Kristian Alfsnes
   • Anders Hobæk
   • Dag O. Hessen

   Original Paper 06 January 2016 Pages: 1425 - 1437

   

7. New contributions to the biodiversity of ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Antarctica, including a description of Gastronauta multistriata nov. spec.

   • Yuan Xu
   • Chen Shao
   • Norbert Wilbert

   Original Paper 18 January 2016 Pages: 1439 - 1453

   

8. Evidence of adoption, monozygotic twinning, and low inbreeding rates in a large genetic pedigree of polar bears

   • René M. Malenfant
   • David W. Coltman
   • Corey S. Davis

   Original Paper 26 December 2015 Pages: 1455 - 1465

   

9. Analysis of trophic interactions reveals highly plastic response to climate change in a tri-trophic High-Arctic ecosystem

   • Lars O. Mortensen
   • Niels Martin Schmidt
   • Mads C. Forchhammer

   Original Paper 26 December 2015 Pages: 1467 - 1478

   

10. Spatiotemporal variation in home range size of female polar bears and correlations with individual contaminant load

    • Floris M. van Beest
    • Jon Aars
    • Rune Dietz

    Original Paper 23 December 2015 Pages: 1479 - 1489

    

11. Linking population trends of Antarctic shag (Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis) and fish at Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands (Antarctica)

    • Ricardo Casaux
    • Esteban Barrera-Oro

    Short Note 09 December 2015 Pages: 1491 - 1497

    

12. Changes in the lichen biota of the Lions Rump area, King George Island, Antarctica, over the last 20 years

    • Maria Olech
    • Agnieszka Słaby

    Short Note Open access 16 January 2016 Pages: 1499 - 1503

    

13. Glyceriformia (Annelida) from the deep sea of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

    • Markus Böggemann
    • Adrian Dietz

    Short Note 05 January 2016 Pages: 1505 - 1510

    

14. High level of tetracosapolyenoic fatty acids in the cold-water mollusk Tochuina tetraquetra is a result of the nudibranch feeding on soft corals

    • Andrey B. Imbs

    Short Note 26 December 2015 Pages: 1511 - 1514