1. Models of Arctic-alpine refugia highlight importance of climate and local topography

   • Annina Niskanen
   • Miska Luoto
   • Risto K. Heikkinen

   Original Paper 31 May 2016 Pages: 489 - 502

   

2. Den selection by barren-ground grizzly bears, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories

   • Corey A. Smereka
   • Mark A. Edwards
   • Andrew E. Derocher

   Original Paper 27 May 2016 Pages: 503 - 516

   

3. Overview of coralline red algal crusts and rhodolith beds (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) and their possible ecological importance in Greenland

   • Helle I. Ø. Jørgensbye
   • Jochen Halfar

   Original Paper 28 May 2016 Pages: 517 - 531

   

4. Diversity, ecology and community structure of the freshwater littoral diatom flora from Petuniabukta (Spitsbergen)

   • Eveline Pinseel
   • Bart Van de Vijver
   • Kateřina Kopalová

   Original Paper 10 June 2016 Pages: 533 - 551

   

5. A race against time: habitat alteration by snow geese prunes the seasonal sequence of mosquito emergence in a subarctic brackish landscape

   • John S. Park

   Original Paper 25 May 2016 Pages: 553 - 561

   

6. Conversion of tundra to exposed peat habitat by snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) and Ross’s geese (C. rossii) in the central Canadian Arctic

   • John Conkin
   • Ray T. Alisauskas

   Original Paper 13 June 2016 Pages: 563 - 576

   

7. South Polar Skua breeding populations in the Ross Sea assessed from demonstrated relationship with Adélie Penguin numbers

   • Deborah J. Wilson
   • Philip O’B. Lyver
   • David G. Ainley

   Original Paper 08 June 2016 Pages: 577 - 592

   

8. Is colonization of sea ice by diatoms facilitated by increased surface roughness in growing ice crystals?

   • Lars Chresten Lund-Hansen
   • Ian Hawes
   • Brian K. Sorrell

   Original Paper 01 June 2016 Pages: 593 - 602

   

9. Abundant deposits of nutrients inside lakebeds of Antarctic oligotrophic lakes

   • Yukiko Tanabe
   • Saori Yasui
   • Masumi Yamamuro

   Original Paper 10 June 2016 Pages: 603 - 613

   

10. Behavioral responses of chinstrap and gentoo penguins to a stuffed skua and human nest intruders

    • Won Young Lee
    • Jin-Woo Jung
    • Jeong-Hoon Kim

    Original Paper 04 June 2016 Pages: 615 - 624

    

11. Modest increases in densities of burrow-nesting petrels following the removal of cats (Felis catus) from Marion Island

    • Ben J. Dilley
    • Michael Schramm
    • Peter G. Ryan

    Original Paper 09 June 2016 Pages: 625 - 637

    

12. Effects of changes in salinity on oxygen and food consumption of the young sub-Antarctic notothenioid Eleginops maclovinus: possible implications of their use of an estuarine habitat

    • Fabián Alberto Vanella
    • Claudia Alejandra Duarte
    • Claudia Clementina Boy

    Original Paper 15 June 2016 Pages: 639 - 647

    

13. Identification and characterization of yeasts isolated from the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula

    • Evelin Troncoso
    • Salvador Barahona
    • Marcelo Baeza

    Original Paper 20 June 2016 Pages: 649 - 658

    

14. DNA extracted from faeces as a source of information about endemic reindeer from the High Arctic: detection of Shiga toxin genes and the analysis of reindeer male-specific DNA

    • Sylwia Zielińska
    • Dorota Kidawa
    • Joanna M. Łoś

    Original Paper Open access 07 July 2016 Pages: 659 - 666

    

15. Temporal and geographical variation in body condition of common minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata) in the Northeast Atlantic

    • Hiroko K. Solvang
    • Hirokazu Yanagihara
    • Tore Haug

    OriginalPaper 08 July 2016 Pages: 667 - 683

    

16. Female gonad morphology of small copepods Oithona similis and Microsetella norvegica

    • Ekaterina Mironova
    • Anna Pasternak

    Original Paper 27 June 2016 Pages: 685 - 696

    

17. Climate variability and multi-scale assessment of the krill preyscape near the north Antarctic Peninsula

    • Kate Richerson
    • Jarrod A. Santora
    • Marc Mangel

    Original Paper 29 June 2016 Pages: 697 - 711

    

18. Births of leopard seals Hydrurga leptonyx in southern Chile

    • Jorge Acevedo
    • Alejandro González
    • Anelio Aguayo-Lobo

    Short Note 27 May 2016 Pages: 713 - 717

    

19. Bioprospecting for extracellular enzymes from culturable Actinobacteria from the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

    • Claudio Lamilla
    • Mónica Pavez
    • Leticia Barrientos

    Short Note 28 May 2016 Pages: 719 - 726

    

20. Mechanisms driving Antarctic microbial community responses to ocean acidification: a network modelling approach

    • Roshni C. Subramaniam
    • Jessica Melbourne-Thomas
    • Stuart P. Corney

    Short Note 11 June 2016 Pages: 727 - 734