1. Description of the antarctic notaspideanPolictenidia tomasi gen.nov. and sp.nov. (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) from the Scotia Sea proposing also a new notaspidean tribe

   • F. J. García
   • J. C. García-Gómez
   • J. L. Cervera

   Original Paper Pages: 79 - 85

2. Summer plankton beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf at white Island, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

   • G. A. Knox
   • E. J. Waghorn
   • P. H. Ensor

   Original Paper Pages: 87 - 94

3. Inorganic carbon uptake by an Antarctic sea-ice diatom,Nitzschia frigida

   • C. Mitchell
   • J. Beardall

   Original Paper Pages: 95 - 99

4. “Bacillus thermoantarcticus” sp. nov., from Mount Melbourne, Antarctica: a novel thermophilic species

   • B. Nicolaus
   • L. Lama
   • G. di. Prisco

   Original Paper Pages: 101 - 104

5. The diet of Antarctic fur sealsArctocephalus gazella during the breeding season at South Georgia

   • K. Reid
   • J. P. Y. Arnould

   Original Paper Pages: 105 - 114

6. Plankton dynamics in the marginal ice zone of the central Barents Sea during spring: carbon flow and structure of the grazer food chain

   • B. Hansen
   • S. Christiansen
   • G. Pedersen

   Original Paper Pages: 115 - 128

7. Decomposition in situ of the sublittoral Antarctic macroalgaDesmarestia anceps Montagne

   • P. E. M. Brouwer

   Original Paper Pages: 129 - 137

8. Age and growth of the nototheniid fishTrematomus bernacchii Boulenger from Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica

   • M. La Mesa
   • M. Vacchi
   • S. Greco

   Original Paper Pages: 139 - 145

9. Effects of experimental temperature elevation on high-arctic soil microarthropod populations

   • S. J. Coulson
   • I. D. Hodkinson
   • A. T. Strathdee

   Original Paper Pages: 147 - 153

10. “Bacillus thermoantarcticus” sp. nov., from Mount Melbourne, Antarctica: a novel thermophilic species

    • B. Nicolaus
    • Licia Lama
    • Agata Gambacorta

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 101 - 104