Date

May Issue of "Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research"
Volume 38, Number 2
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
University of Colorado at Boulder

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Contents of Volume 38, Number 2

A Revised and Extended Holocene Glacial History of Icy Bay, Southern
Alaska, U.S.A.
By: David J. Barclay, Julie L. Barclay, Parker E. Calkin, and Gregory C.
Wiles

Abundance and Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Glacier Systems
By: J. D. Barker, M. J. Sharp, S. J. Fitzsimons, and R. J. Turner

Success of Turf Transplants in Restoring Alpine Trails, Colorado, U.S.A.
By: Robin F. Bay and James J. Ebersole

Environmental Factors Associated with Deep Chlorophyll Maxima in Dry
Valley Lakes, South Victoria Land, Antarctica
By: Laura Burnett, Daryl Moorhead, Ian Hawes, and Clive Howard-Williams

Associations between Accelerated Glacier Mass Wastage and Increased
Summer Temperature in Coastal Regions
By: Mark Dyurgerov and Gregory J. McCabe

Photosynthetic Capacity and PSII Efficiency of the Evergreen Alpine
Cushion Plant Saxifraga paniculata during Winter at Different Altitudes
By: J. Hacker and G. Neuner

Soil Thaw and Temperature Response to Air Warming Varies by Plant
Community: Results from an Open-top Chamber Experiment in Northern
Alaska
By: Robert D. Hollister, Patrick J. Webber, Fredrick E. Nelson, and
Craig E. Tweedie

A Banded Vegetation Pattern in a High Arctic Community on Axel Heiberg
Island, Nunavut, Canada
By: Daniel Liptzin

Cushion Plants as Microclimatic Shelters for Two Ladybird Beetles
Species in Alpine Zone of Central Chile
By: Marco A. Molina-Montenegro, Ernesto I. Badano, and Lohengrin A.
Cavieres

Reconstruction of Summer Temperature for a Canadian High Arctic Site
from Retrospective Analysis of the Dwarf Shrub, Cassiope tetragona
By: Shelly A. Rayback and Gregory H. R. Henry

Recovery of Alpine Herbfield on a Closed Walking Track in the Kosciuszko
Alpine Zone, Australia
By: Pascal Scherrer and Catherine Marina Pickering

Cold-season Production of CO2 in Arctic Soils: Can Laboratory and Field
Estimates Be Reconciled through a Simple Modeling Approach?
By: Joshua P. Schimel, Jace Fahnestock, Gary Michaelson, Carl Mikan,
Chien-Lu Ping, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, and Jeff Welker

Reconstructing Century-long Snow Regimes Using Estimates of High Arctic
Salix arctica Radial Growth
By: Niels M. Schmidt, Claudia Baittinger, and Mads C. Forchhammer

Nitrogen Fixation, Denitrification, and Ecosystem Nitrogen Pools in
Relation to Vegetation Development in the Subarctic
By: Pernille L. Sorensen, Sven Jonasson, and Anders Michelsen

Are Frost Boils Important for the Recruitment of Arctic-Alpine Plants?
By: Jolene T. Sutton, Luise Hermanutz, and John D. Jacobs

Terminal Moraines, Outwash Plains, and Lake Terraces in the Vicinity of
Lago Cardiel (49 S; Patagonia, Argentina) - Evidence for Miocene Andean
Foreland Glaciations
By: Gerd Wenzens

Diversity of Predatory Rhagidiid Mites (Acar Rhagidiidae) Inhabiting
Montane Stony Debris in the Otztal Alps, North Tyrol, Austria
By: Miloslav Zacharda and Tomas Kucera

Book Reviews
Perspectives pour une Geobiologie des Montagnes
By: Paul Ozenda

Antarctic Marine Protists
Edited By: Fiona J. Scott and Harvey J. Marchant

Life in Ancient Ice
Edited By: John D. Castello and Scott O. Rogers

Glaciers, second edition
By: Michael Hambrey and Jurg Alean