1. Soil microbial carbon and nitrogen transformations at a glacial foreland on Anvers Island, Antarctic Peninsula

   • Sarah L. Strauss
   • Ferran Garcia-Pichel
   • Thomas A. Day

   Original Paper 13 April 2012 Pages: 1459 - 1471

   

2. New mites Terraphagus antipodus gen. n., sp. n. and Neohyadesia minor sp. n. (Acarina: Astigmata: Algophagidae) from islands of the Southern Ocean

   • John M. Clark
   • Neil Andrews

   Original Paper 19 April 2012 Pages: 1473 - 1485

   

3. Growth rates of arctic juvenile Scolelepis squamata (Polychaeta: Spionidae) isolated from Chukchi Sea fast ice

   • Brenna McConnell
   • Rolf Gradinger
   • Bodil A. Bluhm

   Original Paper 04 May 2012 Pages: 1487 - 1494

   

4. Eukaryotic phylotypes in aquatic moss pillars inhabiting a freshwater lake in East Antarctica, based on 18S rRNA gene analysis

   • Ryosuke Nakai
   • Takashi Abe
   • Takeshi Naganuma

   Original Paper Open access 03 May 2012 Pages: 1495 - 1504

   

5. Sex differences in age structure, growth rate and body size of common frogs Rana temporaria in the subarctic

   • Cécile Patrelle
   • Mårten B. Hjernquist
   • Juha Merilä

   Original Paper 12 May 2012 Pages: 1505 - 1513

   

6. Characterization and expression analysis of three cold shock protein (CSP) genes under different stress conditions in the Antarctic bacterium Psychrobacter sp. G

   • Weizhi Song
   • Xuezheng Lin
   • Xiaohang Huang

   Original Paper 08 May 2012 Pages: 1515 - 1524

   

7. Abundance and age of viable resting eggs of the calanoid copepod Boeckella poppei Mrázek in sediments: evidence of egg banks in two Antarctic maritime lakes

   • Xiaodong Jiang
   • Shiye Zhao
   • Minghong Cai

   Original Paper 19 May 2012 Pages: 1525 - 1531

   

8. Feeding ecology of capelin (Mallotus villosus Müller) in West Greenland waters

   • R. Hedeholm
   • P. Grønkjær
   • S. Rysgaard

   Original Paper 24 June 2012 Pages: 1533 - 1543

   

9. Age and growth of the Antarctic dragonfish Parachaenichthys charcoti (Pisces, Bathydraconidae) from the southern Scotia Arc

   • Mario La Mesa
   • Barbara Catalano
   • Christopher D. Jones

   Original Paper 24 May 2012 Pages: 1545 - 1553

   

10. Aerial survey of Atlantic walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in the Pechora Sea, August 2011

    • Christian Lydersen
    • Vladimir I. Chernook
    • Kit M. Kovacs

    Original Paper 26 May 2012 Pages: 1555 - 1562

    

11. Usnea lichen community biomass estimation on volcanic mesas, James Ross Island, Antarctica

    • Olga Bohuslavová
    • Petr Šmilauer
    • Josef Elster

    Original Paper 26 May 2012 Pages: 1563 - 1572

    

12. A nursery area for the Antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarcticum at Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea): first estimate of distribution and abundance of eggs and larvae under the seasonal sea-ice

    • Marino Vacchi
    • Arthur L. DeVries
    • Eva Pisano

    Original Paper 27 May 2012 Pages: 1573 - 1585

    

13. Cloning and characterization of cytoplasmic carbonic anhydrase from gills of four Antarctic fish: insights into the evolution of fish carbonic anhydrase and cold adaptation

    • Gianfranco Santovito
    • Stefano M. Marino
    • Mariano Beltramini

    Original Paper 26 May 2012 Pages: 1587 - 1600

    

14. Analysis of the sources of variance in the mean size of krill consumed by Chinstrap and Adélie penguins at South Orkney Islands

    • Emilce Rombolá
    • Enrique Marschoff
    • Néstor Coria

    Original Paper 24 May 2012 Pages: 1601 - 1606

    

15. Population viability analysis of New Zealand sea lions, Auckland Islands, New Zealand’s sub-Antarctics: assessing relative impacts and uncertainty

    • B. Louise Chilvers

    Original Paper 22 December 2011 Pages: 1607 - 1615

    

16. Comment on sea lion population viability analysis

    • Paul A. Breen
    • David J. Gilbert
    • Paul J. Starr

    Comment 19 July 2012 Pages: 1617 - 1618

17. Mortality rates clarified: reply to Breen et al. (2012)

    • B. Louise Chilvers

    Reply To 31 July 2012 Pages: 1619 - 1620