1. Announcement

   Announcement Pages: A3 - A3

2. Acknowledgement to referees

   Acknowledgments Pages: 505 - 505

3. Acoustic observations of krill (Euphausia superba) at the ice edge (between elephant I. and south Orkney I., Dec. 1988/Jan. 1989)

   • Malgorzata Godlewska

   OriginalPaper Pages: 507 - 514

4. Egg production rates of the neritic marine copepod Acartia tumida Willey in the Aleutian Archipelago

   • R. Patrick Hassett
   • David O. Duggins
   • Charles A. Simenstad

   OriginalPaper Pages: 515 - 523

5. Distribution and composition of particulate organic matter in the Ross Sea (Antarctica)

   • Mauro Fabiano
   • Paolo Povero
   • Roberto Danovaro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 525 - 533

6. The vegetation of Cockburn Island, Antarctica

   • R. I. Lewis Smith

   OriginalPaper Pages: 535 - 542

7. Reticulammina antarctica nov. spec. (Xenophyophora, Protista) from the Weddell Sea, and aspects of the nutrition of xenophyophores

   • Franz Riemann
   • Ole S. Tendal
   • Franz X. Gingele

   OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 547

8. Energy consumption and metabolism during starvation in the Arctic hyperiid amphipod Themisto libellula Mandt

   • J. A. Percy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 549 - 555

9. Influence of the frontal zones on ichthyoplankton and mesopelagic fish assemblages in the Crozet Basin (Indian sector of the Southern Ocean)

   • P. Koubbi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 557 - 564

10. Composition, abundance, and diversity of peracarid crustaceans on a transect of the Kolbeinsey Ridge, north of Iceland

    • Angelika Brandt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 565 - 576

11. A new cloche design for elevating temperature in polar terrestrial ecosystems

    • A. T. Strathdee
    • J. S. Bale

    OriginalPaper Pages: 577 - 580