February Issue of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
Vol. 40, No. 1, February 2008
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
University of Colorado at Boulder
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Contents of Volume 40, Number 1:
Holocene Sediment Magnetic Properties along a Transect from
Isafjardardjup to Djupall, Northwest Iceland
J. T. Andrews, J. Hardardottir, J. S. Stoner, and S. M. Principato
Experiments on Lichen Growth, III. The Shape of the Age-Size Curve
James B. Benedict
Effects of Simulated Climate Change on Plant Phenology and Nitrogen
Mineralization in Alaskan Arctic Tundra
Andrew P. Borner, Knut Kielland, and Marilyn D. Walker
The Role of Reproductive Assurance in the Arctic: a Comparative Study of
a Homostylous and Distylous Species Pair
Matthew L. Carlson, Steven D. Gisler, and Sylvia Kelso
Forage Quality and Reindeer Productivity: Multiplier Effects Amplified
by Climate Change
Merben R. Cebrian, Knut Kielland, and Greg Finstad
Effects of Nutrient Enrichment on Phytoplankton in an Alpine Lake,
Colorado, U.S.A.
Eileen M. Gardner, Diane M. McKnight, William M. Lewis, Jr., and Matthew
P. Miller
Long-Term Mammalian Herbivory and Nutrient Addition Alter Lichen
Community Structure in Alaskan Dry Heath Tundra
Laura Gough, Kanchan Shrestha, David R. Johnson, and Brian Moon
Migratory Bogong Moths (Agrotis infusa) Transport Arsenic and
Concentrate It to Lethal Effect by Estivating Gregariously in Alpine
Regions of the Snowy Mountains of Australia
Ken Green
A Glacier Inventory for the Buordakh Massif, Cherskiy Range, Northeast
Siberia, and Evidence for Recent Glacier Recession
S. D. Gurney, V. V. Popovnin, M. Shahgedanova, and C. R. Stokes
Slow Recovery of Lichen on Burned Caribou Winter Range in Alaska Tundra:
Potential Influences of Climate Warming and Other Disturbance Factors
Randi Jandt, Kyle Joly, C. Randy Meyers, and Charles Racine
Experimental Alteration of Vegetation on Nonsorted Circles: Effects on
Cryogenic Activity and Implications for Climate Change in the Arctic
Anja Kade and Donald A. Walker
Thermophilic Tree Species Reinvade Subalpine Sweden - Early Responses to
Anomalous Late Holocene Climate Warming
Leif Kullman
Living in Snowy Environments: Quantifying the Influence of Snow on Moose
Behavior
Caroline Lundmark and John. P. Ball
The Influence of Soil Geochemistry on Nematode Distribution, McMurdo Dry
Valleys, Antarctica
Michael A. Poage, John E. Barrett, Ross A. Virginia, and Diana H. Wall
The Effects of Aridity on Conifer Radial Growth, Recruitment, and
Mortality Patterns in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California
Aaron P. Potito and Glen M. MacDonald
Seasonal Variation in Ablation and Surface Velocity on a Temperate
Maritime Glacier: Fox Glacier, New Zealand
H. L. Purdie, M. S. Brook, and I. C. Fuller
Spatial Reconstructions and Comparisons of Historic Snow Avalanche
Frequency and Extent Using Tree Rings in Glacier National Park, Montana,
U.S.A.
B. A. Reardon, G. T. Pederson, C. J. Caruso, and D. B. Fagre
Blister Rust Prevalence in Krummholz Whitebark Pine: Implications for
Treeline Dynamics, Northern Rocky Mountains, Montana, U.S.A.
Lynn M. Resler and Diana F. Tomback
Plant and Microbial Uptake and Allocation of Organic and Inorganic
Nitrogen Related to Plant Growth Forms and Soil Conditions at Two
Subarctic Tundra Sites in Sweden
Pernille Laerkedal Sorensen, Karina Engelbrecht Clemmensen, Anders
Michelsen, Sven Jonasson, and Lena Strom
The Photosynthetic Response of Alaskan Tundra Plants to Increased Season
Length and Soil Warming
Gregory Starr, Steven F. Oberbauer, and Lorraine E. Ahlquist
Impacts of Climate Warming and Nitrogen Deposition on Alpine Plankton in
Lake and Pond Habitats: an In Vitro Experiment
Patrick L. Thompson, Marie-Claire St-Jacques, and Rolf D. Vinebrooke
Glacier Recession on Heard Island, Southern Indian Ocean
Douglas E. Thost and Martin Truffer
Reindeer Winter Grazing in Alpine Tundra: Impacts on Ridge Community
Composition in Norway
Ingunn Vistnes and Christian Nellemann
Effects of Climate and Land-Use Change on the Establishment and Growth
of Cembran Pine (Pinus cembra L.) over the Altitudinal Treeline Ecotone
in the Central Swiss Alps
Pascal Vittoz, Benoit Rulence, Thierry Largey, and Francois Frelechoux
Intraspecific Divergence in Seed Germination Traits between High- and
Low-Latitude Populations of the Arctic-Alpine Annual Koenigia islandica
Ioan Wagner and Andrew M. Simons
New Zealand Forest to Alpine Transitions in Global Context
Peter Wardle
The Ecological Significance of Pubescence in Saussurea medusa, a
High-Elevation Himalayan "Woolly Plant"
Yang Yang, Christian Korner, and Hang Sun
Cellular Automata: Simulating Alpine Tundra Vegetation Dynamics in
Response to Global Warming
Yanqing A. Zhang, Michael R. Peterman, Dorin L. Aun, and Yanming Zhang
Book Review
DEEP FREEZE: the United States, the International Geophysical Year, and
the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science, by Dian Olson Belanger