Date

February Issue of "Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research"
Volume 38, Number 1
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
University of Colorado at Boulder

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Contents of Volume 38, Number 1

Quantifying the Mass Balance of Ice Caps on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian
High Arctic. I: Climate and Mass Balance of the Vavilov Ice Cap
By: R. P. Bassford, M. J. Siegert, J. A. Dowdeswell, J. Oerlemans, A. F.
Glazovsky, and Y. Y. Macheret

Quantifying the Mass Balance of Ice Caps on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian
High Arctic. II: Modeling the Flow of the Vavilov Ice Cap under the
Present Climate
By: R. P. Bassford, M. J. Siegert, and J. A. Dowdeswell

Quantifying the Mass Balance of Ice Caps on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian
High Arctic. III: Sensitivity of Ice Caps in Severnaya Zemlya to Future
Climate Change
By: R. P. Bassford, M. J. Siegert, and J. A. Dowdeswell

Photosynthesis during an Episodic Drought in Abies lasiocarpa and Picea
engelmannii across an Alpine Treeline
By: Craig R. Brodersen, Matthew J. Germino, and William K. Smith

Spatial and Temporal Active Layer Dynamics along Three Glacial Meltwater
Streams in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
By: Peter A. Conovitz, Lee H. MacDonald, and Diane M. McKnight

Strategy of Food Plant Selection in the Siberian Northern Pika, Ochotona
hyperborea
By: Joanna Gliwicz, Stanislaw Pagacz, and Julia Witczuk

A Stable Isotopic Investigation of a Polar Desert Hydrologic System,
McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
By: Michael N. Gooseff, W. Berry Lyons, Diane M. McKnight, Bruce H.
Vaughn, Andrew G. Fountain, and Carolyn Dowling

Epilithic Lichen Communities in High Arctic Greenland: Physical,
Environmental, and Geological Aspects of Their Ecology in Inglefield
Land
By: Eric Steen Hansen, Peter Robert Dawes, and Bjorn Thomassen

Short-term Periglacial Processes, Vegetation Succession, and Soil
Development within Sorted Patterned Ground: Jotunheimen, Norway
By: Jake E. Haugland

Snow Depth and Vegetation Pattern in a Late-melting Snowbed Analyzed by
GPS and GIS in the Giant Mountains, Czech Republic
By: M. Hejcman, I. J. Dvorak, M. Kocianova, V. Pavlu, P. Nezerkova, O.
Vitek, O. Rauch, and J. Jenik

Phenological Responses of Snowbed Species to Snow Removal Dates in the
Central Alps: Implications for Climate Warming
By: Karl Huelber, Michael Gottfried, Harald Pauli, Karl Reiter, Manuela
Winkler, and Georg Grabherr

The Thinning and Retreat of Parteglaciaren, Northern Sweden, During the
Twentieth Century and Its Relation to Climate
By: Per Klingbjer and Frank Neidhart

A Test of Treeline Theory on a Montane Permafrost Island
By: Christian Korner and Gunter Hoch

Eolian Additions to Late Quaternary Alpine Soils, Indian Peaks
Wilderness Area, Colorado Front Range
By: Daniel R. Muhs and James B. Benedict

Plant Diversity and Resilience to Reindeer Grazing
By: Johan Olofsson

Spatial-Temporal Variability in Turbulent Fluxes during Spring Snowmelt
By: S. Pohl, P. Marsh, and G. E. Liston

Recent Trends in Melting Conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula and Their
Implications for Ice-sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level
By: David G. Vaughan