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Note: Contents: Preface / Wolf Dieter Blümel, Jörn Thiede and Ruth Narmann. - Acknowledgements. - Aims of the Leopoldina Symposium on Russian-German Cooperation in the Scientific Exploration of Northeastern Eurasia: A Personal and Eclectic View / Jörn Thiede. - Welcome Speech / Nikolay M. Kropachev. - Welcome Address / Wolf Dieter Blümel. - LEOPOLDINA LECTURE. - From Lomonosov to Modern Times: Eclectic History of Russian-German Cooperation in the Scientific Exploration of High Northern Latitudes / Jörn Thiede. - EXTENDED CONTRIBUTIONS. - Research Infrastructure in Northern Sibiria. - The Zotino Tall Tower Observatory (ZOTTO): Quantifying Large Scale Biogeochemical Changes in Central Siberia / Martin Heimann, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Jan Winderlich, Meinrat O. Andreae, Xuguang Chi, Christoph Gerbig, Olaf Kolle, Karl Kubler, Jost Lavric, Eugene Mikhailov, Alexey Panov, Sungbin Park, Christian Rodenbeck and Andrej Skorochod. - The New Arctic Research Station "Samoylov Island" in the Lena Delta: Prospects of Joint Russian-German Studies / Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten and Mikhael N. Grigoriev. - Methods of Radiochronology of Quaternary Sediments: Modern Approaches and Results of Studies / Vladislav Y. Kuznetsov. - SESSION 1. - Summary. - Environmental Change in Northern Eurasia in Real Time / Session Chair: Jörn Thiede. - Sedimentation history in the Lena Delta, Northern Siberia / Georg Schwamborn, Volker Rachold, Mikhail Grigoriev and Matthias Krbetschek. - Hydrology of the Lena River Delta / Irina V. Fedorova, Antonia A. Chetverova, Dmitry Yu. Bolshiyanov, Aleksandr S. Makarov, Julia Boike, Anne Morgenstern and Birgit Heim. - Advanced process-based hydrological modelling as an effective tool for assessment of changes of the Arctic Environment in different temporal and spatial scales / Olga Semenova and Lyudmila S. Lebedeva. - Shelf-basin exchange in the Laptev Sea in the warming climate: the joint roles of atmospheric forcing and hydrography / Vladimir Ivanov, Ekaterina Chernyavskaya, Pavel Maslov, Yevgeny Aksenov and Beverly Cuevas. - Distribution of sea ice derived brine signals from the Siberian shelf area based on stable oxygen isotope and salinity data / Irina Semeryuk and Dorothea Bauch. - SESSION 2. - Summary. - Continental Siberia: dynamics of permafrost landscapes and carbon fluxes / Session Chair: Mikhael N. Grigoriev. - Genesis and age of pingo structures in the Lena Delta, Northeast Siberia / Anna A. Urban. - Content and distribution of trace metals in permafrost-affected soils of Northern Siberia, Russia / Iulia Antcibor, Annette Eschenbach, Lars Kutzbach, Dmitry Bolshiyanov and Eva-Maria Pfeiffer. - Carbon stocks in permafrost-affected soils in the Lena River Delta / Sebastian Zubrzycki, Alexey R. Desyatkin, Lars Kutzbach and Eva-Maria Pfeiffer. - Microbial methane driving processes in Siberian Arctic and Sub-Arctic cryosols / Svetlana Evgrafova and Dirk Wagner. - The latest tectonic movements in key areas on the coasts and islands of the Laptev Sea / Alisa V. Baranskaya. - Erosion rates and terrigenous sediment fluxes in the Lena Delta Region (East Siberian Arctic) / Mikhail N. Grigoriev. - Nitrogen availability, turnover and limitation in permafrost affected soils of Samoylov Island in the Lena Delta, Northeast Siberia / Tina Sanders, Claudia Fiencke and Eva-Maria Pfeiffer. - Sedimentological studies of high latitude lake sediments aimed at palaeoenvironmental reconstructions: an example from the Lena Delta Hinterland / Polina S. Vakhrameeva, Boris K. Biskaborn, Dmitry Yu. Bolshiyanov, Bernhard Diekmann, Larissa A. Savelieva and Dmitry A. Subetto. - Palynological characteristics of lower Yenisey quaternary deposits / Valentina A. Chetverova, Luda G. Derevyanko and Evgeny A. Gusev. - SESSION 3. - Summary. - The paleoenvironmental history of Siberian permafrost landscapes / Session Chair: Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten. - Vegetation history of the lower Lena River from pollen records of lake sediments / Larissa Savelieva, Dmitry Yu. Bolshiyanov, Ulrike Herzschuh, Polina S. Vakhrameeva, Boris Biskaborn and Bernhard Diekmann. - Climate and vegetation of late pleistocene in the east Siberian Arctic based on pollen data from Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island / Natalya A. Rudaya, Andrei Andreev, Sebastian Wetterich and Lutz Schirrmeister. - Evolution of thermokarst lakes and alasses in the ice-rich permafrost of the Lena River Delta / Anne Morgenstern, Frank Günther, Mathias Ulrich, Irina V. Fedorova, Natalya A. Rudaya, Julia Boike and Lutz Schirrmeister. - Late pleistocene and holocene vegetation history deduced from palynological investigations of the permafrost records of the El'gygytgyn impact crater / Elena Raschke, Andrei Andreev, Grigory Fedorov, Georg Schwamborn and Lutz Schirrmeister. - Tracking environmental change using invertebrate bioindicators from the lakes of Yakutia (Siberia, Russia) / Larisa B. Nazarova, Oleg N. Tumanov, Ulrike Herzschuh, Larisa A. Frolova and Lyudmila A. Pestryakova. - Palaeoenvironmental investigations and reconstructions in Northern Russia using subfossil Cladocera (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) / Larisa A. Frolova, Liliya I. Gafiatulina, Larissa B. Nazarova and Sebastian Wetterich. - SESSION 4. - Summary. - Siberian shelf seas and the adjacent Arctic Ocean / Session Chair: Heidemarie Kassens. - Oceanography of the Laptev Sea / Bennet Juhls, Sergey A. Kirillov, Jens Hölemann, Leonid A. Timokhov, Heidemarie Kassens, Birgit Heim, Andrey Novikhin and Markus Janout. - Summer sediment transport dynamics on the Laptev sea shelf (Siberian Arctic) / Carolyn Wegner, Kerstin Wittbrodt, Dorothea Bauch, Jens A. Hölemann, Markus Janout, Andrey Novikhin, Birgit Heim, Sergey Kirillov, Heidemarie Kassens and Leonid Timokhov. - Living and fossil microalgae from the Eurasian Arctic Seas as indicators of modern and past environmental changes / Yelena Polyakova, Irina Kryukova, Tatiana Klyuvitkina, Yekatherina Novichkova and Nataliya Manko. - Past environmental transformation of the Laptev Sea continental margin and water mass changes since last deglacial times / Ekaterina Taldenkova, Natalia Chistyakova, Henning A. Bauch, Anna Stepanova, Yaroslav Ovsepyan and Robert F. Spielhagen. - A multiproxy reconstruction of the last interglacial environmental conditions in northern Russia / Henning A. Bauch, Yaroslav Ovsepyan, Ekaterina Taldenkova, Anna Stepanova and Olga Rudenko. - Holocene variability of Atlantic water advection to the Arctic Ocean / Robert F. Spielhagen, Kirstin Werner, Natalia Chistyakova and Ekaterina Taldenkova. - Ecological and geographical characteristics of phytoplankton in the Eastern Laptev Sea (Autumnal Season 2008) / Irina Kryukova, Yelena Polyakova, Ekaterina Abramova, Fedor Martynov, Andrey Novikhin, Heidemarie Kassens and Jens Hölemann.

Note: Inhaltsverzeichnis / Contents: Preface 2015. - Note of the translator. - Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit. - Einleitung. - 1. Die fossilen Klimazeugen. - 2. Die Klimagürtel im Karbon und Perm. - 3. Die Klimagürtel im Mesozoikum. - 4. Die Klimagürtel in der Tertiärzeit. - 5. Die Klimate in den vorkarbonischen Zeiten. - 6. Polwege und Breitenänderungen in der Erdgeschichte. - 7. Die Klimate des Quartärs. - Index. - Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit - Ergänzungen und Berichtigungen. - The climates of the geological past. - Contents. - Table of figures. - Introduction. - 1. Fossil climate indicators. - 2. The climate belts of the carboniferous and permian. - 3. The climate belts of the Mesozoic. - 4. The climate belts of the tertiary. - 5. The climates of the pre-carboniferous periods. - 6. Pole migrations and latitude changes in earth's history. - 7. Climates of the quaternary. - Index. - The climates of the geological past - supplements and corrections.

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Saprykin, O.Rusalimova Christian Siewert Freezing and hungry? Hydrocarbon degrading microbial communities in Barents Sea sediments around Svalbard / Bartholomäus Sven, Nontje Straaten, Daniela Zoch, Martin Krüger Biological soil crust algae in the polar regions – biodiversity, genetic diversity and ecosystem resilience under global change scenarios / Burkhard Becker, Burkhard Büdel and Ulf Karsten UDASH - Unified Database for Arctic and Subarctic Hydrography / Axel Behrendt, Hiroshi Sumata, Benjamin Rabe, Torsten Kanzow and Ursula Schauer Compound-specific radiocarbon constraints on Antarctic sediment chronologies / Sonja Berg, Sandra Jivcov, Janet Rethemeyer Environmental conditions in terrestrial East Antarctica during the last glacial - new evidence from mumiyo deposits / Sonja Berg, Martin Melles, Wolf-Dieter Hermichen, Janet Rethemeyer, Gerhard Kuhn Collection-based diatom research: collection imaging to biogeography and microevolution in the Southern Ocean / Bánk Beszteri, Stefan Pinkernell, Michael Kloster, Ute Postel, Gerhard Kauer, Uwe John, Klaus Valentin, Gernot Glöckner In vivo observations of OWA induced pH changes in the brain of polar cod Boreogadus saida / Christian Bock, Felizitas C. 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Burrows The effect of climate change on the carbon balance in microalgae / Deborah Bozzato, Torsten Jakob, Christian Wilhelm Species composition and abundance of the shallow water fish community of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard / Markus Brand, Philipp Fischer Decadal changes in a breeding population of southern giant petrels on King George Island, Antarctic, in response to human activities / Christina Braun, Jan Esefeld, Hans-Ulrich Peter Geodetic GNSS measurements to investigate the recent crustal deformation at the Antarctic Peninsula and in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica / Peter Busch, Mirko Scheinert, Christoph Knöfel, Lutz Eberlein, Martin Horwath, Ludwig Schröder, Andreas Groh Parameterization of snow BRDF measurements in Antarctica / T. Carlsen, G. Birnbaum, A. Ehrlich, M. Schäfer, and M. Wendisch Airborne and in situ ground-based measurements of surface albedo, bidirectional reflectivity, and snow properties on the Antarctic plateau / T. Carlsen, M. Belke Brea, G. 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