Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Dieter Piepenburg, Ph.D.
Alfred Wegener Institute
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Am Handelshafen 12
D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
E-mail: Editor.Polar.Biology@awi.de
Founding Editors
Gotthilf Hempel and Irmtraut Hempel
Editorial Assistant
Henrike Mütze
Institute for Ecosystem Research
University of Kiel
Olshausenstrasse 75
24118 Kiel, Germany
FAX: +49 431 600-1671
E-mail: Editor.Polar.Biology@awi.de
Associate Editors
Toke Thomas Høye, Ph.D.
Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
Mario La Mesa, Ph.D.
Istituto di Scienze Polari
Bologna, Italy
Angelina Lo Giudice, Ph.D.
Institute of Polar Sciences
National Research Council (CNR-ISP)
Messina, Italy
Gabriela Mataloni, Ph.D.
Universidad Nacional de Gral, San Martin
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ryan Reisinger, Ph.D.
University of Southampton
Southampton, UK
Alexey A. Sukhotin, Ph.D.
Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
St. Petersburg, Russia
Akinori Takahashi, Ph.D.
National Institute of Polar Research
Tokyo, Japan
Editors
Holger Auel, Ph.D.
University of Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Joshua Benoit, Ph.D.
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Marthan Bester, Ph.D.
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa
Joseph Eastman, Ph.D.
Ohio University
Athens, OH, USA
Sandra McInnes, Ph.D.
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge, UK
Klaus Meiners, Ph.D.
Australian Antarctic Division
Kingston, Australia
Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow, Ph.D.
University of Oulu
Oulu, Finland
Ilse van Opzeeland, Ph.D.
Alfred Wegener Institute
Bremerhaven, Germany
Lloyd Peck, Ph.D.
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge, UK
Paul E. Renaud, Ph.D.
Akvaplan-niva AS
Tromsø, Norway
Leopoldo Sancho, Ph.D.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Kate Schoenrock, Ph.D.
National University of Ireland
Galway, Ireland
Camilla Svensen, Ph.D.
UIT The Arctic University of Norway
Tromsø, Norway
Kerrie Swadling, Ph.D.
University of Tasmania
Battery Point, Australia
Masaki Uchida, Ph.D.
National Institute of Polar Research
Tokyo, Japan
Dolors Vaqué, Ph.D.
Institut de Ciencas del Mar
Barcelona, Spain
Heike Wägele, Ph.D.
Zoologischen Forschungsmuseums Alexander Koenig
Bonn, Germany
Jan Marcin Weslawski, Ph.D.
Institute of Oceanology PAS
Sopot, Poland
Rory P. Wilson, Ph.D.
University of Wales
Swansea, UK
Zhouqing Xie, Ph.D.
University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei, China