Table of Content
I. Biodiversity.- Antarctic marine benthic biodiversity in a world-wide latitudinal context 1.- New species of benthopelagic hydromedusae from the Weddell Sea.- A study on octopodids from the eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica.- Diversity of reproductive features in some Antarctic polynoid and sabellid polychaetes, with a description of Demonax polarsterni sp. n. (Polychaeta, Sabellidae).- Deep-sea polychaetes in the Weddell Sea and Drake Passage: first quantitative results.- Great differences in peracarid crustacean density between the Arctic and Antarctic deep sea.- Potential impact of the main benthic amphipods on the eastern Weddell Sea shelf ecosystem (Antarctica).- Diversity of epibenthic habitats of gammaridean amphipods in the eastern Weddell Sea.- No evidence for slow-down of molecular substitution rates at subzero temperatures in Antarctic serolid isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda, Serolidae).- Microscopic anatomy and ultrastructure of the digestive system of three Antarctic shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea).- Synopsis of the pycnogonids from Antarctic and Subantarctic waters.- Cytogenetics of the bathydraconid fish Gymnodraco acuticeps (Perciformes, Notothenioidei) from Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea.- Seasonal fluctuations of vagile benthos in the uppermost sublittoral of a maritime Antarctic fjord.- Assemblages of necrophagous animals off Enderby land, East Antarctica.- II. Pelagobenthic coupling.- Are Antarctic suspension-feeding communities different from those elsewhere in the world'.- Primary production, light and vertical mixing in Potter Cove, a shallow bay in the maritime Antarctic.- Land forcing controls pelagic-benthic coupling in Adelie Cove (Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea).- Fluxes and composition of settling particles during summer in an Antarctic shallow bay of Livingston Island, South Shetlands.- Feeding strategies and diet composition of four Antarctic cnidarian species.- Foraging behaviour of Weddell seals, and its ecological implications.- III. Ice biota and ice impact on benthic communities.- On the direct impact of ice on marine benthic communities, a review.- Biogeochemistry of platelet ice: its influence on particle flux under fast ice in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica.- Meiofauna in sea ice of the Weddell Sea (Antarctica).- In situ oxygen microelectrode measurements of bottom-ice algal production in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.- Recolonisation of meiofauna after catastrophic iceberg scouring in shallow Antarctic sediments.- Meiofauna response to iceberg disturbance on the Antarctic continental shelf at Kapp Norvegia (Weddell Sea).- Quantification of iceberg impact and benthic recolonisation patterns in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica).- The role of iceberg scours in niche separation within the Antarctic fish genus Trematomus.- IV. Ecophysiology.- Ecophysiology of Antarctic marine ectotherms: limits to life.- Acclimation of photosynthesis and pigments to seasonally changing light conditions in the endemic Antarctic red macroalga Palmaria decipiens.- Effects of solar radiation on growth and mycosporine-like amino acids content in Thalassiosira sp., an Antarctic diatom.- Distribution patterns of decapod crustaceans in polar areas: A result of magnesium regulation'.- Occurrence of the autofluorescent pigment, lipofuscin, in polar crustaceans and its potential as an age marker.- Production and respiration of Antarctic ascidians.- Temperature-dependent pH regulation in stenothermal Antarctic and eurythermal temperate eelpout (Zoarcidae): an in-vivo NMR study.- List of Referees.
