1. Editorial on the EPOS proceedings

   • G. Hempel

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. The role of sea ice in structuring Antarctic ecosystems

   • Hajo Eicken

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 13

3. Community structure of the epipelagic zooplankton community under the sea-ice of the northern Weddell Sea

   • V. Siegel
   • A. Skibowski
   • U. Harm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 24

4. Elemental composition of suspended matter in the Scotia-Weddell Confluence area during spring and summer 1988 (EPOS leg 2)

   • F. Dehairs
   • L. Goeyens
   • S. Mathot

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 33

5. Respiratory electron transport activity in plankton of the Weddell and Scotia Seas during late spring — early summer: relationships with other biological parameters

   • Marta Estrada
   • Rosa Martinez
   • Sylvie Mathot

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 42

6. Abundance of cryptophyceae and chlorophyll b-containing organisms in the Weddell-Scotia Confluence area in the spring of 1988

   • A. G. J. Buma
   • W. W. C. Gieskes
   • H. A. Thomsen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 52

7. Loricate choanoflagellates of the Southern Ocean with new observations on cell division in Bicosta spinifera (Throndsen, 1970) from Antarctica and Saroeca attenuata Thomsen, 1979, from the Baltic Sea

   • Helge Abildhauge Thomsen
   • Jacob Larsen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 63

8. Early summer distribution of Antarctic krill sexual development in the Scotia-Weddell region: a multivariate approach

   • Janine Cuzin-Roudy
   • Jean Philippe Labat

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 74

9. Krill diet affects faecal string settling

   • G. C. Cadée
   • H. González
   • S. B. Schnack-Schiel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 80

10. The distribution and abundance of krill faecal material and oval pellets in the Scotia and Weddell Seas (Antarctica) and their role in particle flux

    • H. E. González

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 91

11. Top predators as indicators for ecosystem events in the confluence zone and marginal ice zone of the Weddell and Scotia Seas, Antarctica, November 1988 to January 1989 (EPOS Leg 2)

    • Jan A. van Franeker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 102

12. Quantitative distribution of the shelf and slope molluscan fauna (gastropoda, bivalvia) of the Eastern Weddell Sea (Antarctica)

    • Patrick M. Arnaud
    • Stefan Hain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 109

13. Reproductive biology of caridean decapods from the Weddell Sea

    • M. Gorny
    • W. E. Arntz
    • D. J. Gore

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 120

14. New results of the “EPOS” leg 3 cruise to antarctica: Horizontal and vertical distribution of isopods (Crustacea) in the eastern Weddell Sea

    • Alfons Zimmermann
    • Angelika Brandt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 128

15. Egg size and composition in Ceratoserolis (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Weddell Sea

    • Andrew Clarke
    • Deborah J. Gore

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 134

16. The primary structure and oxygen-binding properties of the single haemoglobin of the high-Antarctic fish Aethotaxis mitopteryx DeWitt

    • Rossana D'Avino
    • Angela Fago
    • Guido di Prisco

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 140

17. Haematological studies on Aethotaxis mitopteryx DeWitt, a high-Antarctic fish with a single haemoglobin

    • Andreas Kunzmann
    • Angela Fago
    • Guido di Prisco

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 145