Czech Polar Reports 10/2020/2

Pavlo Kovalenko, Svitlana Serga, Daniel Einor, Volodymyr Gorobchyshyn, Vladlen Trokhymets, Oleksandra Protsenko, Iryna Kozeretska: Unsupervised learning for detection of possible sexual dimorphism in larvae of Belgica antarctica Jacobs (Diptera, Chironomidae) ● Michael Matějka, Kamil Láska: Impact of the selected boundary layer schemes and enhanced horizontal resolution on the Weather Research and Forecasting model performance on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula ● Anton Puhovkin, Oleksandra Bezsmertna, Ivan Parnikoza: Interspecific differences in desiccation tolerance of selected Antarctic lichens: Analysis of photosystem II effectivity and quenching mechanisms ● Sergey Golubev: Analysis of the attempts to breed seabirds in uninhabited territories of the Haswell archipelago and Adams Island (East Antarctica) ● Barbora Chattová, Andrii Zotov, Ivan Parnikoza: Moss inhabiting diatoms of Galindez Island, Argentine Islands (the maritime Antarctica) exhibit low diversity and pronounced differentiation ●
Sergey V. Chesnokov, Liudmila A. Konoreva, Evgeny A. Davydov: Addition to the lichen biota of Franz Josef Land archipelago ● Diana Darriba Canora, Laura Llorens Guasch, Rebeca Sicilia Zuazo: Species-specific responses of Antarctic terrestrial microalgae to salinity stress. Comparative study in Klebsormidium sp. and Stigeoclonium sp. ● Alla Orekhova, Josef Hájek: Responses of primary photosynthetic processes to repetitive rehydration differ in two representatives of Svalbard moss flora ● Оksana Rudkovskaya: New records of alien plant species rare in the Russian Arctic (Murmansk region, NW Russia) ● Peter Váczi, Miloš Barták: Multispectral aerial monitoring of a patchy vegetation oasis composed of different vegetation classes. UAV-based study exploiting spectral reflectance indices

Juan Manuel Solano, Carlos Alberto Vargas, Adriana Maria Gulisano: Quasi real-time electromagnetic and greenhouse gases monitoring station at Seymour - Marambio Island, Antarctica ● Merve Kahraman, Mehmet Gökhan Halıcı: Buellia epigaea (Pers.) Tuck, a new record of lichenized fungus species for Antarctica ● Paraskeva Michailova, Julia Ilkova, Pavlo Kovalenko, Artem Dzhulai, Iryna Kozeretska: Long-term retainment of some chromosomal inversions in a local population of Belgica antarctica Jacobs (Diptera, Chironomidae) ● Tereza Cahová, Barbora Chattová: Diversity and species composition of diatom communities of Ardley Island, South Shetland Islands ● Kseniya Mihajlovna Nikerova, Nataliya Alekseevna Galibina, Yuliya Leonidovna Moshchenskaya, Irina Nikolaevna Sofronova, Marina Nikolaevna Borodina, Elena Viktorovna Moshkina, Ludmila Ludvigovna Novitskaya: The effect of soil fertility on antioxidant enzymes activity in a subarctic woody species ●
Polina Lemenkova: Dataset compilation by GRASS GIS for thematic mapping of Antarctica: Topographic surface, ice thickness, subglacial bed elevation and sediment thickness ● Pastor Ignacio Achával, Carlos Leonardo Di Prinzio: The drag effect of air bubbles on triple junction migration of pure ice ● Sergey Golubev: Seabirds of human settlements in Antarctica: A case study of the Mirny Station ● Boris Ivanov, Tatiana Karandasheva, Valery Demin, Anastasiia Revina, Pavel Sviashchennikov, Ketil Isaksen, Eirik J. Førland, Øyvind Nordli, Herdis Motrøen Gjelten: Assessment of long-term changes in the surface air temperature from the High Arctic archipelago Franz Joseph Land from 1929 to the present (2017) ● Olga Podolich, Ievgeniia Prekrasna, Ivan Parnikoza, Tamara Voznyuk, Ganna Zubova, Iryna Zaets, Natalia Miryuta, Ganna Myryuta, Oksana Poronnik, Iryna Kozeretska, Viktor Kunakh, Anna Maria Pirttila, Evgen Dykyi, Natalia Kozyrovska: First record of the endophytic bacteria of Deschampsia antarctica Ė. Desv. from two distant localities of the maritime Antarctic ● Andreas Alexander: The thermal impact of tourism on a Svalbard glacier cave (Short Communication) ● Gabriella Nora Maria Giudici: Combined chlorophyll fluorescence techniques to study environmental impact on the mountain moss Polytrichum commune ●
Workshop 2020: BIOSCIENCES IN POLAR AND ALPINE RESEARCH (Extended abstracts).November 19, 2020, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University Brno. ● Miloš Barták: Ecophysiological characteristics of Luzula sylvatica from arctoalpine tundra ● Michaela Bednaříková: Symbiotic algae and cyanobacteria isolated from Antarctic lichens ● Jordan M. Bishop, Kateřina Kopalová: An overview of diatom research on Continental Antarctica ● Eugene Borovichev, Elena Klyuchnikova: Social–nature interactions in changing climate: Russian Arctic, Murmansk Region examples ● Tereza Cahová, Barbora Chattová: Diatom communities of Ardley Island, South Shetland Islands ● Denis Davydov: Cyanobacterial diversity and distribution on the Svalbard Archipelago ● Josef Hájek: Mechanisms of Antarctic lichens resistance to cold and sub-zero temperature. Case study on Usnea sp. ● Galina Kashulina, Tatyana Litvinova, Svetlana Drogobuzhskaya: Multi element soil biogeochemistry on the southwest coast of Svalbard ●
Alla Orekhova: The effects of dehydration and co-acting photoinhibition on primary photosynthetic processes in Bryum pseudotriquetrum monitored by OJIPs ● Gabriela Suková, Matěj Hrala, Eva Staňková, Pavel Švec, Vendula Koublová, Ivo Sedláček: Characterisation of Escherichia coli isolated from Antarctic animals ● Kateřina Uhlířová: EU-Norway legal dispute on snow crab fisheries in Svalbard and its impact on the Barents Sea’s benthic ecosystem

Yejin Kim, In-Young Ahn, Ji Kang Park, Won Young Lee:: Weddell seal observations on female and pup behavior and breeding status for four overwintering periods (2015 to 2018) at Barton Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica
● Ivan Alekseev, Evgeny Abakumov: Permafrost table depth in soils of Eastern Antarctica oases, King George and Ardley Islands (South Shetland Islands)
● Alvarinho J. Luis, Shubham Singh: High-resolution multispectral mapping facies on glacier surface in the Arctic using WorldView-3 data
● Natalya Shmakova, Olga Ermolaeva: The pigment complex and photosynthetic activity in the annual cycle of Polytrichum commune in the forest belt of the Khibiny Mountains on the Kola Peninsula of Russia
● Mehmet Gökhan Halıcı, Osman Muaz Osmanoğlu, Merve Kahraman: A new record of lichenized fungus species for Antarctica: Peltigera castanea Goward, Goffinet & Miądl.
● Jan Kavan, Veronika Anděrová: Impacts of increased tourism on polar environment – case studies from Svalbard and Iceland
● Alexey Zverev, Alexey Petrov, Anastasia Kimeklis, Arina Kichko, Evgeny Andronov, Alexey Petrov, Evgeny Abakumov: Microbiomes of the initial soils of mining areas of Yakutsk City (Eastern Siberia, Russia)
● Barbora Padrtová: The effects of changing environment and human activities on the Arctic: Drivers and challenges in Svalbard (Short Communication)
● Vera V. Redkina, Regina R. Shalygina, Mariya V. Korneykova: Microfungi, algae and cyanobacteria in soils polluted with fluorine (Kola Peninsula, Russia)
● Alvarinho J. Luis: Oceanographic features of the Indian Ocean sector of Coastal Antarctica (Short Communication)

Shridhar Digambar Jawak; Sagar Filipe Wankhede; Alvarinho Joaozinho Luis; Prashant Hemendra Pandit; Shubhang Kumar: Implementing an object-based multi-index protocol for mapping surface glacier facies from Chandra-Bhaga basin, Himalaya ● Eugenia Fedorovna Markovskaya; Elena Valentinovna Novichonok; Natalya Yurievna Shmakova: Eco-physiological peculiarities of Stellaria humifusa in West Spitsbergen ● Gabriella Nora Maria Giudici: Photoinhibition of primary photosynthetic processes in hydrated Polytrichum commune: Analysis of non-photochemical quenching affecting species resistance ● Kristýna Dufková; Miloš Barták; Jana Morkusová; Josef Elster; Josef Hájek: Screening of growth phases of Antarctic algae and cyanobacteria cultivated on agar plates by chlorophyll fluorescence imaging

Zbyněk Engel, Filip Hrbáček, Kamil Láska, Daniel Nývlt, Zdeněk Stachoň: Surface mass balance of Davies Dome and Whisky Glacier on James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula, based on different volume-mass conversion approaches
● Mehmet Gökhan Halici, Miloš Barták: Sphaerellothecium reticulatum (Zopf) Etayo, a new lichenicolous fungus for Antarctica
● Filip Hrbáček, Daniel Nývlt, Kamil Láska, Michaela Kňažková, Barbora Kampová, Zbyněk Engel, Marc Oliva, Carsten W. Mueller: Permafrost and active layer research on James Ross Island: An overview
● Alla Orekhova, Miloš Barták, Aleyna Özkar, Josef Elster: The effect of shock freezing on physiological properties and consequent growth of Antarctic filamentous (Stigeoclonium sp.) and coccal alga (Diplosphaera chodatii) on agar plates
● Shridhar Digambar Jawak, Shubhang Kumar, Alvarinho Joaozinho Luis, Prashant Hemendra Pandit, Sagar Filipe Wankhede: Seasonal glacier surface velocity fluctuation and contribution of the Eastern and Western Tributary Glaciers in Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica
● Angelica Casanova-Katny, Miloš Barták, Catalina Gutierrez3: Open top chamber microclimate may limit photosynthetic processes in Antarctic lichen: Case study from King George Island, Antarctica

Barbora Chattová: Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) associated with lichens from Ulu Peninsula (James Ross Island, NE Antarctic Peninsula) ● Tamara Kukharchyk, Sergey Kakareka, Yury Giginyak: Trace elements in soils of oases of Enderby Land (on an example of Vecherny oasis) ● Kateřina Snopková, Ivo Sedláček, David Šmajs: First evidence of high-molecular-weight bacteriocin (tailocin) produced by Antarctic Pseudomonas spp. ● Anzhella Valerjevna Sonina, Vera Ivanovna Androsova, Anna Andreevna Tsunskaya, Liliya Evgenjevna Suroeva: Comparative study of structural and ecophysiological features of lichens of different ecological groups in rocky forest communities of northernmost boreal zone (Karelia, Russia) ● Marta Campos Alonso: Changes in chlorophyll fluorescence parameters during desiccation and osmotic stress of Hassalia antarctica culture 
Hana Cempírková, Kristýna Večeřová: Pigment composition, glutathione and tocopherols in green algal and cyanobacterial lichens and their response to different light treatments

Neelu Singh, Rajan Sivaramakrishnan, Shabnam Choudhary, Krishnaiah Chikkamadaiah: Spatial distribution and environmental assessment of heavy metals in the surface sediments of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard ● Natalia Vladimirovna Vasilevskaya, Anna Dmitrievna Domakhina: Teratomorphism of pollen of Larix sibirica Ledeb. (Pinaceae Lindl.) in the Arctic urbanized territory ● Michal Goga, Marko S. Sabovljević, Ingeborg Lang, Martin Bačkor: Contribution to the bryophyte flora of Antarctica: the James Ross Island moss inventory and the new records ● Elizaveta Iaroslavovna Iavid, Veronika Nikolaevna Kondakova, Vyacheslav Igorevich Polyakov, Evgeny Vasilyevic Abakumov: Diversity and main properties of soils of the Gronfjord area (Svalbard archipelago) ● Şafak Altunkaynak, Ercan Aldanmaz, Işıl Nur Güraslan, Ayşe Zeynep Çalışkanoğlu, Alp Ünal, Daniel Nývlt: Lithostratigraphy and petrology of Lachman Crags and Cape Lachman lava-fed deltas, Ulu Peninsula, James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula: Preliminary results

Evgeny Abakumov: Vertical electric resistivity sounding of natural and anthropogenically affected cryosols of Fildes Peninsula, Western Antarctica ● Vlasta Jankovská: Saint-Petersburg State University, Department of Applied Ecology, 16-line 29, Vasilyevskiy Island, Saint-Petersburg, 199178, Russia ● Anzhella V. Sonina, Anastasya D. Rumjantseva, Anna A. Tsunskaya, Vera I. Androsova: Adaptations of epilithic lichens to the microclimate conditions of the White Sea coast ● Boris Viacheslavovich Ivanov: Relative transparency of sea water in the Green-fjord Bay (Spitsbergen) ● James J. Kendall Jr., Jeffrey J. Brooks, CHris Campbell, Kathleen L. Wedemeyer, Catherine C. Coon, Sharon E. Warren, Guillermo Auad, Dennis K. Thurston, Rodney E. Cluck, Frances E. Mann, Sharon A. Randall, Mark A. Storzer, David W Johnston, Deanna Meyer-Pietruszka, Michael L. Haller: Use of traditional knowledge by the United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to support resource management ● Olga P. Kurnosova, Alexander V. Khrustalev, Natalya A Illarionova, Irina M. Odoevskaya: A survey of helminths of polar bears in the Russian Arctic

Evgeny Abakumov: Characterisation of humic acids, isolated from selected sub-antarctic soils by 13C-NMR spectroscopy ● Mehmet Gökhan Halici, Mithat Güllü; Miloš Barták: First record of a common endolithic lichenized fungus species Catenarina desolata Søchting, Søgaard & Elvebakk. from James Ross Island (Antarctic Peninsula) ● Vítězslav Vlček, David Juřička, Jitka Míková: Heavy metal concentration in selected soils and sediments of Livingston Island, Deception Island, King George Island, James Ross Island (Antarctica) ● Timm Bayer, Nıevas Vıñals: Temperature optima for growth and photosynthetic processes in Trebouxia erici isolated from an Antarctic lichen and cultivated in a temperature gradient ● Aleksandra V. Urazgildeeva, Pavel N. Sviashchennikov, Boris V. Ivanov, Ketil Isaksen, Eirik J. Førland, Ragnar Brækkan: Comparative analysis of Russian and Norwegian precipitation gauges, measurements in Barentsburg, Western Spitsbergen

Liudmila Alexandrovna Sergienko, Tamara Yr'evna D'yachkova, Vera Ivanovna Androsova: Features of the structural organization and biomorphology of dominant plant species of Holarctic seas’ coasts along the tidal gradient ● Capucine Baubin, Dorothée Ehrich, Virve Ravolainen, Svetlana Sokovina, Svetlana Ektova, Natalya Sokolova, Rolf A. Ims, Aleksandr Sokolov: First results from an experiment excluding three sizes classes of herbivores from tundra vegetation in southern Yamal, Russia ● Mohammed A. Abneuf, Abiramy, Krishnan, Marcelo Gonzales Aravena, Ka-Lai Pang, Peter Convey, Nuradilla Mohamad-Fauzi, Mohammed Rizman-Idid, Siti Aisyah AliasAntimicrobial activity of microfungi from maritime Antarctic soil ● Radim Stuchlík, Jan Russnák, Tomáš Plojhar, Zdeněk Stachoň: Measurement of snow cover depth using 100 × 100 meters sampling plot and Structure from Motion method in Adventdalen, Svalbard ● Anzhella V. Sonina, Anna A.Tsunskaya: Structural and functional adaptations of epilithic lichens of Umbilicaria genus in the White Sea coastal conditions ● Higinio Pablo Varela Hernandez: Effects of heavy metals ions on primary photosynthetic processes in Antarctic filamentous alga Zygnema sp. (Short Communication)

Eugenia Fedorovna Markovskaya; Natalya Yurievna Shmakova; Elena Valentinovna Novichonok: Biometrical parameters, pigment content and functional characteristics of photosynthetic apparatus of Bistorta vivipara within the territory of West Spitsbergen ● Alena Žákovská, Olivie Zezulová: Some of the metabolic changes in expedition members caused by diet and activities performed during a stay at the Czech Antarctic base (Short Communication) ● Lenka Raabová; Josef Elster; Ľubomír Kováčik: Phototrophic microflora colonizing substrates of man-made origin in Billefjorden Region, Central Svalbard ● Vladislav Nikolaevich Svetochev, Nikolay Nikolaevich Kavtsevich, Olga Nagimovna Svetocheva: Satellite tagging and seasonal distribution of harp seal (juveniles) of the White sea-Barents sea stock ● Marina Prieto Amador: UV-B effects on filamentous alga Zygnema strain (EEL201) from Antarctica

Petra Vinšová; Eveline Pinseel; Tyler J. Kohler; Bart Van de Vijver; Jakub D. Žárský; Jan Kavan; Kateřina Kopalová: Diatoms in cryoconite holes and adjacent proglacial freshwater sediments, Nordenskiöld glacier (Spitsbergen, High Arctic) ● Daniil I. Tislenko; Boris V. Ivanov: Long-term variability of Atlantic water temperature in the Svalbard fjords in conditions of past and recent global warming ● Jana Kvíderová; Josef Elster; Ivan Iliev: Exploitation of databases in polar research - Data evaluation and outputs ● Olga A. Belkina; Anna A Vilnet: Some aspects of the moss population development on the Svalbard glaciers ● Giridharan Thangaraj: Antarctic strain of green filamentous alga Zygnema sp. shows a high resistance to photoinhibition under simulated polar conditions ● Jiří Lehejček: Dwarf tundra shrubs growth as a proxy for late Holocene climate change

Petr Wolf: Solar energy utilization in overall energy budget of the Johann Gregor Mendel Antarctic station during austral summer season ● Kateřina Skácelová; Filip Hrbáček; Barbora Chattová; Kamil Láska; Miloš Barták: Biodiversity of freshwater autotrophs in selected wet places in northern coastal ecosystems of James Ross Island ● Svetlana N. Ektova; Ludmila M. Morozova: Rate of recovery of lichen-dominated tundra vegetation after overgrazing at the Yamal Peninsula (Short Communication) ● Atsushi Nakada: Reindeer herding and environmental change in the Oymyakon District, Sakha Republic ● Veronika Nezhybová; Šárka Mašová: Basic epidemiological data on metazoan parasites of notothenioid fish off James Ross Island (Prince Gustav Channel, Weddell Sea), Antarctica

Slavomír Nehyba; Daniel Nývlt: Deposits of pyroclastic mass flows at Bibby Hill (Pliocene, James Ross Island, Antarctica) ● Isabel C. Barrio; David S. Kik; Maryvonne Charrier; Yves Frenot; David Renault: Adaptations of a native Subantarctic flightless fly to dehydration stress: more plastic than we thought? (Short Communication) ● Boris V. Ivanov; Pavel N. Sviashchennikov; Danila M. Zhuravskiy; Alexey K. Pavlov; Eirik J. Førland; Ketil Isaksen: Sea ice metadata for Billefjorden and Grønfjorden, Svalbard ● Jana Kvíderová: Sample database of the Centre for Polar Ecology - Database design and data management ● Stefano Conti; Jana Hazdrová; Josef Hájek; Petra Očenášová; Miloš Barták; Kateřina Skácelová; Paola Adamo: Comparative analysis of heterogeneity of primary photosynthetic processes within fruticose lichen thalli: Preliminary study of interspecific differences (Short Communication)

Jakub Małecki: Some comments on the flow velocity and thinning of Svenbreen, Dickson Land, Svalbard ● Kristian Brat; Zdeněk Merta; Pavel Ševčík: Effects of moderate- to high-level physical performance on blood levels of cardiac biomarkers in extreme conditions of Antarctica ● Jiří Komárek: Phenotypic and ecological diversity of freshwater coccoid cyanobacteria from maritime Antarctica and Islands of NW Weddell Sea. II. ● Irina M. Odoevskaya; Sergei E. Spiridonov: Molecular taxonomic study of Trichinella spp. from mammals of Russian Arctic and subarctic areas ● Luděk Sehnal; Peter Váczi; Miloš Barták: Effect of temperature and increased concentration of CO2 on growth and photosynthetic activity of polar alga Trebouxia sp. ● Boris V. Ivanov; Pavel N. Sviashchennikov; Danila M. Zhuravskiy; Alex K. Pavlov; Eirik J. Forland: Metadata for a long-term climate series from the Russian meteorological station “Pyramiden” (1948-1957) at Svalbard (Short Communication)activated by low to medium light doses

Michal Janouch; Klára Řeháková; Ladislav Sieger: Workshop on Changes of the Polar Ecosystem (The 13th Annual Meeting of the Polar Section of the Czech Geographical Society) ● Václav Stacke; Peter Mida; Jiří Lehejček; Gabriela Tóthová; Daniel Nývlt: Recent landscape changes in terminoglacial area of the Nordenskiöldbreen, central Spitsbergen, Svalbard (Short communication) ● Ekaterina Pushkareva; Josef Elster: Biodiversity and ecological classification of cryptogamic soil crusts in the vicinity of Petunia Bay, Svalbard ● Kateřina Balarinová; Peter Váczil; Miloě Barták; Jana Hazdrová; Marie Forbleská: Temperature-dependent growth rate and photosynthetic performance of Antarctic symbiotic alga Trebouxia sp. cultivated in a bioreactor ● Josef Svoboda: Cold hardiness in Arctic plants as a requirement of colonization of the post-glacial arctic (Extended Abstract)

Jan Kavan: Polar Ecology Conference 2012 – Some Facts and Impressions ● Miloš Barták: Availability of papers published in the Czech Polar Reports ● Jerzy Smykla; Nataliia Iakovenko; Miloslav Devetter; Łukasz Kaczmarek: Diversity and distribution of tardigrades in soils of Edmonson Point (Northern Victoria Land, continental Antarctica) ● Anatoly Kosobryukhov; Evgeniya Markovskaya; Liudmila Sergienko: Photosynthetic characteristics of three species of the family Plantaginaceae growing on high and low tide coastal areas of the White Sea ● Mikhail G. Golovatin; Ludmila M. Morozova; Svetlana N. Ektova: Effect of reindeer overgrazing on vegetation and animals of tundra ecosystems of the Yamal peninsula

Himanshu Rai; Roshni Khare; Sanjeeva Nayaka; Dalip Kumar Upreti: Lichen synusiae in East Antarctica (Schirmacher Oasis and Larsemann Hills): substratum and morphological preferences ● Peter Váczil; Miloš Barták; Linda Nedbalová; Josef Elster: Comparative analysis of temperature courses in Antarctic lakes of different morphology: Study from James Ross Island, Antarctica ● Lenka Hradecká; Radek Vodrážka; Daniel Nývlt: Foraminifera from the Upper Cretaceous of northern James Ross Island (Antarctica): a preliminary report ● Jiří Kváček; Jakub Sakala: Late Cretaceous flora of James Ross Island (Antarctica) – preliminary report