1. Abundance and diversity of peracarid taxa (Crustacea, Malacostraca) along a transect through the Beagle Channel, Patagonia

   • Angelika Brandt
   • Katrin Linse
   • Ursula Weber

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 83 - 90

2. Heterotrophic flagellates, centrohelid heliozoa and filose amoebae from marine and freshwater sites in the Antarctic

   • S. Tong
   • N. Vørs
   • D. J. Patterson

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 91 - 106

3. Assimilation efficiency of captive ringed seals (Phoca hispida) fed different diets

   • John W. Lawson
   • Jason A. Hare
   • James K. Friel

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 107 - 111

4. Sensory development of the Antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarcticum: a test for the ontogenetic shift hypothesis

   • John C. Montgomery
   • K. Björn W. Sutherland

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 112 - 115

5. Seabird species associations and affinities to areas covered with sea ice in the northern Greenland and Barents Seas

   • Fridtjof Mehlum

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 116 - 127

6. Fungi of the Windmill Islands, continental Antarctica. Effect of temperature, pH and culture media on the growth of selected microfungi

   • O. R. Azmi
   • R. D. Seppelt

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 128 - 134

7. Microbial communities in saline lakes of the Vestfold Hills (eastern Antarctica)

   • Stephen J. Perriss
   • Johanna Laybourn-Parry

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 135 - 144

8. Distribution of phytoplankton and nutrients in relation to different water masses in the area around Elephant Island, Antarctica

   • O. Holm-Hansen
   • C. D. Hewes
   • T. Amos

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 145 - 153

9. Activities of digestive enzymes of polar and subtropical echinoderms

   • T. S. Klinger
   • J. B. McClintock
   • S. A. Watts

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 154 - 157

10. Discovery of ciliates reproducing in the gut of Antarctic krill

    • So Kawaguchi
    • Tatsuki Toda

    SHORT NOTE Pages: 158 - 160