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Polish Polar Research

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The quarterly Polish Polar Research edited by the Committee on Polar Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences is an international journal publishing original research articles presenting the results of studies carried out in polar regions.

All papers are peer-reviewed and published in English.

The Editorial Advisory Board includes renowned scientist from Poland and from abroad.

Polish Polar Research is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Cold Regions Bibliography, Antarctic Literature, Geological Abstracts, Polish Scientific Journals Contents - Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Quarterly Review, and Zoological Record.

Journal Metrics:
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CiteScore metrics from Scopus 2022: 2.4
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2022: 0.288
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2022: 0.512

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ISSN

ISSN 0138-0338, eISSN 2081-8262

Publishers

Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee on Polar Research

Editorial Advisory Board

Robert BIALIK (Warszawa, Poland)

Magda BŁAŻEWICZ (Łódź, Poland)

Alistair CRAME (Cambridge, UK)

Josef ELSTER (České Budějovice, Czechia)

Jacek JANIA (Sosnowiec, Poland)

Cezary KABAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerónimo LÓPEZ-MARTINEZ (Madrid, Spain)

Krzysztof MIGAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerzy NAWROCKI (Warszawa, Poland)

Maria OLECH (Kraków, Poland)

Sergej OLENIN (Klaipeda, Litva)

Sandra PASSCHIER (Montclair, USA)

Jan PAWŁOWSKI (Sopot, Poland)

Żaneta POLKOWSKA (Gdańsk, Poland)

Gerhard SCHMIEDL (Hamburg, Germany)

Peter SCHWEITZER (Vienna, Austria)

Janne SOREIDE (UNIS, Svalbard)

Lech STEMPNIEWICZ (Gdańsk, Poland)

Mateusz STRZELECKI (Wrocław, Poland)

Witold SZCZUCIŃSKI (Poznań, Poland)

Slawek TULACZYK (Santa Cruz, USA)

Jan Marcin WĘSŁAWSKI (Sopot, Poland) - President

Editor-in-Chief

Wojciech MAJEWSKI (Geosciences), Institute of Paleobiology PAS, Poland

e-mail: wmaj@twarda.pan.pl

Co-Editors:

Monika KĘDRA (Life Sciences), Institute of Oceanology PAS, Poland
e-mail: kedra@iopan.gda.pl

Michał ŁUSZCZUK (Social Science and Humanities), UMCS, Poland
e-mail: michal.luszczuk@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl

Associate Editors

Piotr JADWISZCZAK (Białystok),

e-mail: piotrj@uwb.edu.pl

Ewa ŁUPIKASZA (Sosnowiec)

e-mail: ewa.lupikasza@us.edu.pl

Krzysztof ZAWIERUCHA (Poznań)

email: k.p.zawierucha@gmail.com

Editorial Advisory Board

Robert BIALIK (Warszawa, Poland)

Magda BŁAŻEWICZ (Łódź, Poland)

Alistair CRAME (Cambridge, UK)

Josef ELSTER (České Budějovice, Czechia)

Jacek JANIA (Sosnowiec, Poland)

Cezary KABAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerónimo LÓPEZ-MARTINEZ (Madrid, Spain)

Krzysztof MIGAŁA (Wrocław, Poland)

Jerzy NAWROCKI (Warszawa, Poland)

Maria OLECH (Kraków, Poland)

Sergej OLENIN (Klaipeda, Litva)

Sandra PASSCHIER (Montclair, USA)

Jan PAWŁOWSKI (Sopot, Poland)

Żaneta POLKOWSKA (Gdańsk, Poland)

Gerhard SCHMIEDL (Hamburg, Germany)

Peter SCHWEITZER (Vienna, Austria)

Janne SOREIDE (UNIS, Svalbard)

Lech STEMPNIEWICZ (Gdańsk, Poland)

Mateusz STRZELECKI (Wrocław, Poland)

Witold SZCZUCIŃSKI (Poznań, Poland)

Slawek TULACZYK (Santa Cruz, USA)

Jan Marcin WĘSŁAWSKI (Sopot, Poland) - President

Geosciences
Wojciech MAJEWSKI
e-mail: wmaj@twarda.pan.pl
phone: (48 22) 697 88 53

Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
ul. Twarda 51/55
00-818 Warszawa, POLAND

Life Sciences
Monika KĘDRA
e-mail: kedra@iopan.gda.pl
phone: (48 58) 731 17 79

Instytut Oceanologii PAN
Powstańców Warszawy 55
81-712 Sopot, POLAND, P.O. Box 148

Social Science and Hummanities
Michał ŁUSZCZUK
e-mail: michal.luszczuk@poczta.umcs.lublin.pl
phone: (48 81) 537 68 99

Instytut Geografii Społeczno-Ekonomicznej i Gospodarki Przestrzennej UMCS
Al. Kraśnicka 2D
20-718 Lublin, POLAND

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Polish Polar Research | 2011 | No 2

1 70th Anniversary of Professor Maria Olech

Maria Olech

Polish Polar Research | 2011 | No 2 | DOI: 10.2478/v10183−011−0014−8

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Maria Olech

2 Soil development and soil biology on King George Island, Maritime Antarctic

Manfred Bölter

Polish Polar Research | 2011 | No 2 | 105-116 | DOI: 10.2478/v10183−011−0002−z

Keywords: Antarctic King George Island soil development soil microbial communities

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This review covers aspects of soil science and soil biology of Antarctica with special focus on King George Island, South Shetlands, the martitime Antarctic. New approaches in soil descriptions and soil taxonomy show a great variety of soil types, related to different parent material, mainly volcanic origin, as well as on influences by soil biological processes. The spread of higher rooting plants attract microorga nisms, nematodes and collemboles which in turn build new organic material and change the environment for further successors. Microbial communities are drivers with respect to metabolic and physiological properties indicating a great potential in a changing environment. The literature review also shows a lack of investigations on processes of carbon and nitrogen turnover, despite wide knowledge on its standing stock in different environments. Further , only few reports were found on the processes of humification. Only few data are available which can be regarded as long term monitorings, hence, such projects need to be established in order to follow ecological changes.

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Manfred Bölter

3 Massalongia olechiana (Massalongiaceae, Peltigerales), a new lichen species from the Antarctic

Vagn Alstrup , Ulrik Søchting

Polish Polar Research | 2011 | No 2 | 117-121 | DOI: 10.2478/v10183−011−0011−y

Keywords: Antarctic lichens lichenized ascomycetes Massalongia

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A new species of lichenized ascomycete, Massalongia olechiana Alstrup et Søchting, sp. nov. (Massalongiaceae) is described from the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. The species is distinguished by laminal isidia and 5–7−septate ascospores. The relationships with the other species of the genus are discussed. From Massalongia carnosa , recorded from both the Arctic and the Antarctic, the new species is distinguished by its lack of isidioid squamules and in having pluriseptate ascospores instead of 1−septate ascospores

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Vagn Alstrup

Ulrik Søchting

4 Additions to the lichen flora of Victoria Land, Antarctica

Jerzy Smykla , Beata Krzewicka , Karina Wilk , Steven D. Emslie , Lucyna Śliwa

Polish Polar Research | 2011 | No 2 | 123-138 | DOI: 10.2478/v10183−011−0009−5

Keywords: Antarctica lichenized fungi Ascomycota penguin colonies

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Lichens of relict penguin colonies and sites affected by active penguin colonies were investigated in Victoria Land, Ross Sea sector, continental Antarctica. A total of 17 coastal sites, seven in northern and ten in southern Victoria Land, have been investigated across 7 ° of latitude from 71 ° to 78 ° S. Altogether 40 taxa of lichens have been identified. Four of the recorded species are new to the Antarctic – Caloplaca erecta , C. soropelta , C. tominii and Physcia tenella ; two species are new to the Victoria Land area – Lecania nylanderiana and Lecanora polytropa . The first lichen records from Beaufort Island are also provided. Data presented here expand the knowledge on the occurrence, diversity and distribution of Victoria Land lichens.

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Jerzy Smykla

Beata Krzewicka

Karina Wilk

Steven D. Emslie

Lucyna Śliwa

5 Biology of generative reproduction of Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl. from King George Island, South Shetland Islands

Irena Giełwanowska , Anna Bochenek , Ewa Gojło , Ryszard Górecki , Wioleta Kellmann , Marta Pastorczyk , Ewa Szczuka

Polish Polar Research | 2011 | No 2 | 139-155 | DOI: 10.2478/v10183−011−0008−6

Keywords: Antarctic Colobanthus quitensis microsporogenesis sexual reproduction seed development

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Our macroscopic observations and microscopic studies conducted by means of a light microscope (LM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) concerning the reproduction biology of Colobanthus quitensis (Caryophyllaceae) growing in natural conditions in the Antarctic and in a greenhouse in Olsztyn (northern Poland) showed that this plant develops two types of bisexual flowers: opening, chasmogamous flowers and closed, cleistogamous ones. Cleistogamy was caused by a low temperature, high air humidity and strong wind. A small number of microspores differentiated in the microsporangia of C. quitensis , which is typical of cleistogamous species. Microsporocytes, and later micro − spores, formed very thick callose walls. More than twenty spheroidal, polypantoporate pollen grains differentiated in the microsporangium. They germinated on the surface of receptive cells on the dry stigma of the gynoecium or inside the microsporangium. A monosporic embryo sac of the Polygonum type differentiated in the crassinucellar ovule. During this differentiation the nucellus tissue formed and stored reserve materials. In the development of generative cells, a male germ unit (MGU) with differentiated sperm cells was observed. The smaller cell contained mainly mitochondria, and the bigger one plastids. In the process of fertilization in C. quitensis only one nucleus of the sperm cell, without cytoplasm fragments, entered the egg cell, and the proembryo developed according to the Caryophyllad type. Almost all C. quitensis ovules developed and formed perispermic seeds with a completely differentiated embryo both under natural conditions in the Antarctic and in a greenhouse in Olsztyn.

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Irena Giełwanowska

Anna Bochenek

Ewa Gojło

Ryszard Górecki

Wioleta Kellmann

Marta Pastorczyk

Ewa Szczuka

6 Polish botanical and mycological studies of the Antarctic terrestrial and fresh water ecosystems in 1977-2009: An overview

Piotr Köhler , Maria Olech

Polish Polar Research | 2011 | No 2 | 157-174 | DOI: 10.2478/v10183−011−0010−z

Keywords: Antarctic plants fungi

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This paper recapitulates Polish botanical and mycological research on terrestrial and freshwater Antarctic ecosystems carried out between 1977 and 2009. The main results are briefly summarized. The references encompass nearly 200 papers on floristics, taxonomy, biogeography, ecology, cytology, bioc hemistry, physiology and genetics of lichens, mosses, fungi, algae and vascular plants inhabiting soils, rocks and inland waters in the Antarctic.

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Piotr Köhler

Maria Olech

7 Enigmatic morphological disparity in tarsometatarsi of giant penguins from the Eocene of Antarctica

Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche , Piotr Jadwiszczak

Polish Polar Research | 2011 | No 2 | 175-180 | DOI: 10.2478/v10183−011−0013−9

Keywords: Antarctic Peninsula Eocene La Meseta Formation penguins Anthropornis tarsometatarsi

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The only record of the Paleogene Antarctic Sphenisciformes comes from the Eocene La Meseta Formation (Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula). The analysis of tarso− metatarsi attributed to the genus Anthropornis (“giant” penguins) from the Argentine, Polish and Swedish collections revealed an intriguing heterogeneity within these taxonomically important elements of the skeleton. The unique hypotarsal morphology challenges the current systematics of large−bodied penguins and sheds new light on their evolution.

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Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche

Piotr Jadwiszczak

8 Analysis of cultivable aerobic bacteria isolated from bottom sediments in the Wijdefjorden region, Spitsbergen

Iwona Konieczna , Barbara Wojtasik , Marek Kwinkowski , Dorota Burska , Kamil Nowiński , Paulina Żarnowiec , Wiesław Kaca

Polish Polar Research | 2011 | No 2 | 181-195 | DOI: 10.2478/v10183−011−0012−x

Keywords: Arctic Svalbard psychrophilic bacteria

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The paper presents the first physicochemical and microbiological studies conducted in the northern area of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Ten sediment samples were collected from the bottom of the longest fjord in the region, Wijdef jorden. Bottom sediments from ten lakes located along the shores of Wijdefjorden and Woodfjorden were also sampled. Organic matter content (LOI), water content, temperature, pH, and salinity of the sediments were determined. The quantity of aerobic bacteria cultured on various growth media at 4 ° C, 14 ° C, and 37 ° C ranged from 10 2 to 10 6 cfu/g of wet sediment mass, depending on the type of sampling station (fjord or lake). The number of bacteria did not co rrelate with organic matter content. Out of the 37 bacterial strains isolated from Wijdefjorden, 48% and 70% revealed ureolytic and proteolytic activity, respectively. The proportion of freshwater strains with ureolytic and proteolytic activity was 32% and 55%, respectively. Antibiotic resistance testing indicated that bacterial strains from the bottom sediments of the lakes were resistant to 8 antibiotics (out of the 18 investigated). Possible sources of this resistance are discussed. Using 16S DNA analysis, bacterial isolates from the lakes were identified as Pseudomonas sp., whereas frequently occurring strains in bottom sediment of the fjord were Pseudoalteromonas sp.

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Authors and Affiliations

Iwona Konieczna

Barbara Wojtasik

Marek Kwinkowski

Dorota Burska

Kamil Nowiński

Paulina Żarnowiec

Wiesław Kaca

Instructions for authors

The quarterly Polish Polar Research invites original scientific papers dealing with all aspects of polar research. The journal aims to provide a forum for publication of high-quality research papers, which are of international interest.

We warmly welcome review papers and proposals for thematic Special Issues.

Articles must be written in English. Authors are requested to have their manuscript read by a person fluent in English before submission. They should not be longer than 30 typescript pages, including tables, figures and references. However, upon request, longer manuscripts may be considered for publication. All papers are peer-reviewed. With a submitted manuscript, authors should provide e-mail addresses of at least three suggested reviewers.

Submission of the manuscript should be supported with a declaration that the work described has not been published previously nor is under consideration by another journal.

For text submission, Word file format is preferred. Please use the PPRes style template when preparing the final version of your paper. Pay special attention to writing correctly the list of references with doi. Manuscripts which are not prepared in line with the template will be returned to the authors. Please submit your manuscripts using our online submission system.

The journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges. No honorarium will be paid to authors for publishing papers.