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Polar Biology publishes Original Papers, Reviews, and Short Notes and is the focal point for biologists working in polar regions. It is also of interest to scientists working in biology in general, ecology and physiology, as well as in oceanography and climatology related to polar life. Polar Biology presents results of studies in plants, animals, and micro-organisms of marine, limnic and terrestrial habitats in polar and subpolar regions of both hemispheres.
Taxonomy/ Biogeography
Life History
Spatio-temporal Patterns in Abundance and Diversity
Ecological Interactions
Trophic Ecology
Ecophysiology/ Biochemistry of Adaptation
Biogeochemical Pathways and Cycles
Ecological Models
Human Impact/ Climate Change/ Conservation

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Dieter Piepenburg
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
Editors
Angus Atkinson, Plymouth, Devon, UK
Holger Auel, Bremen, Germany
Marthan Bester, Pretoria, South Africa
Manfred Bölter, Kiel, Germany
Michael A. Castellini, Fairbanks, USA
Steven L. Chown, Melbourne, Australia
Joseph Eastman, Ohio, USA
Stig Falk-Petersen, Tromsø, Norway
Louis Fortier, Quebec, Canada
Rolf Gradinger, Tromsø, Norway
Toke Thomas Høye, Aarhus, Denmark
Gabriela Mataloni, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sandra McInnes, Cambridge, UK
Bettina Meyer, Bremerhaven, Germany
V. Benno Meyer-Rochow, Bremen, Germany
Lloyd Peck, Cambridge, UK
Hans-Otto Pörtner, Bremerhaven, Germany
Ryan Reisinger, La Rochelle, France
Paul E. Renaud, Tromsø, Norway
Leopoldo Sancho, Madrid, Spain
Alexey A. Sukhotin, St. Petersburg, Russia
David Thomas, Anglesey, UK
Jean-Éric Tremblay, Québec, QC, Canada
Masaki Uchida, Tokyo, Japan
Dolors Vaqué, Barcelona, Spain 
Heike Wägele, Bonn, Germany
Paul Wassmann, Tromsø, Norway
Jan Marcin Weslawski, Sopot, Poland
Barbara Wienecke, Kingston, Australia
Christian Wiencke, Bremerhaven, Germany
Rory P. Wilson, Swansea, UK