1. Does spring ice cover influence nest initiation date and clutch size in common eiders?

   • Keith G. Chaulk
   • Matthew L. Mahoney

   Original Paper 29 September 2011 Pages: 645 - 653

   

2. Some biological characteristics of early larvae Dacodraco hunteri (Notothenioidei: Channichthyidae) in the western Ross Sea

   • Mario La Mesa
   • Barbara Catalano
   • Silvestro Greco

   Original Paper 29 September 2011 Pages: 655 - 660

   

3. Dissolved extracellular polymeric substances (dEPS) dynamics and bacterial growth during sea ice formation in an ice tank study

   • Shazia N. Aslam
   • Graham J. C. Underwood
   • David N. Thomas

   Original Paper 26 November 2011 Pages: 661 - 676

   

4. Refining Tori lines to further reduce seabird mortality associated with demersal trawlers in the South Atlantic

   • K. R. S. Snell
   • P. Brickle
   • A. C. Wolfaardt

   Original Paper 27 October 2011 Pages: 677 - 687

   

5. Distribution and feeding of chaetognaths in the epipelagic zone of the Lazarev Sea (Antarctica) during austral summer

   • R. Giesecke
   • H. E. González

   Original Paper 30 October 2011 Pages: 689 - 703

   

6. Exitomelita sigynae gen. et sp. nov.: a new amphipod from the Arctic Loki Castle vent field with potential gill ectosymbionts

   • Anne Helene Tandberg
   • Hans Tore Rapp
   • Jørgen Berge

   Original Paper Open access 02 November 2011 Pages: 705 - 716

   

7. Proximate composition and energy density of nototheniid and myctophid fish in McMurdo Sound and the Ross Sea, Antarctica

   • Crystal Lenky
   • Regina Eisert
   • Victoria Metcalf

   Original Paper 11 November 2011 Pages: 717 - 724

   

8. Geographic variation in beak colouration in gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua

   • Andrés Barbosa
   • Mª. José Palacios
   • Ana Martínez

   Original Paper 10 November 2011 Pages: 725 - 731

   

9. Chrysophytes and other protists in High Arctic lakes: molecular gene surveys, pigment signatures and microscopy

   • Sophie Charvet
   • Warwick F. Vincent
   • Connie Lovejoy

   Original Paper 12 November 2011 Pages: 733 - 748

   

10. Searching for eukaryotic life preserved in Antarctic permafrost

    • L. Zucconi
    • L. Selbmann
    • S. Onofri

    Original Paper 11 November 2011 Pages: 749 - 757

11. Phylogenetic position and taxonomy of three heterocytous cyanobacteria dominating the littoral of deglaciated lakes, James Ross Island, Antarctica

    • J. Komárek
    • L. Nedbalová
    • T. Hauer

    Original Paper 19 November 2011 Pages: 759 - 774

    

12. Molecular cloning of cDNA encoding red opsin gene in the retinas of five Antarctic notothenioid fishes

    • Taeko Miyazaki
    • Tetsuo Iwami

    Original Paper 10 November 2011 Pages: 775 - 783

    

13. Evidence of heterotrophic prokaryotic activity limitation by nitrogen in the Western Arctic Ocean during summer

    • E. Ortega-Retuerta
    • W. H. Jeffrey
    • F. Joux

    Short Note 09 October 2011 Pages: 785 - 794

    

14. Presence and distribution of serotonin in the stomach of the Antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarcticum

    • Chiara Gambardella
    • Laura Ghigliotti
    • Sara Ferrando

    Short Note 23 November 2011 Pages: 795 - 799

    

15. Habitat use of hourglass dolphins near the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

    • Jarrod A. Santora

    Short Note 03 December 2011 Pages: 801 - 806

    

16. Acknowledgement to Referees 2011

    Acknowledgement to Referees 01 March 2012 Pages: 807 - 811