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.
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Dendrochronology in Cold Regions
Magdalena Opała-Owczarek (Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) and Piotr Owczarek (Alfred Jahn Cold Regions Research Centre, University of Wroclaw, Poland) are serving as Guest Editors for this issue.
CALL FOR PAPERS
It has been almost 100 years since the first pioneering dendrochronological research by Endrew E. Douglass and the establishment of the world's first dendrochronology laboratory at the University of Arizona (1937). Dendrochronological research has been carried out mainly in the temperate zone and has been directed towards various scientific fields: climatology, ecology, geomorphology, archaeology and several others. In the Arctic and high-mountain regions, however, dendrochronological research is limited by the lack of trees. The only woody plants are shrubs and dwarf shrubs. The enormous potential of these plants for multidisciplinary environmental research was only recognised about three decades ago. The first Polish dendrochronological studies of dwarf shrubs were started in 2007 in the vicinity of the Stanislaw Baranowski Polar Station of the University of Wroclaw and the Polish Polar Station in the Hornsund in southern Spitsbergen. The number of publications in the field of polar and alpine dendrochronology has increased rapidly in recent years, but many research problems remain unsolved.
The main goal of this thematic collection is to present new results of dendrochronological research conducted in the Arctic and high-mountain areas from different parts of the world and across the hierarchy from regional to global. Original results and reviews in the broad field of Earth sciences, where dendrochronology based on Arctic, subalpine and alpine plant analysis is the main research method, are welcome.
The submission deadline will be 30th October 2025. For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (https://journals.pan.pl/ppr/).
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: magdalena.opala@us.edu.pl, piotr.owczarek@uwr.edu.pl.
Invitation (click here): Special Issue PPR Dendrochronology of Cold Regions
Diatom assemblages collected from ponds and pools surrounding Arctowski Station (King George Island, South Shetland Islands) have been investigated. The study focused on two groups of samples: archival samples collected in the 1990s and contemporary samples collected in 2015. All samples were analysed following the revised taxonomy. A total of 118 diatom taxa representing 38 different genera were identified. The diatom flora consisted of both species typical of the maritime Antarctica (47% of all taxa), as well as cosmopolitan species (21% of all taxa). Four European taxa (Adlafia minuscula, Nitzschia palea, Nitzschia perminuta, Surirella angusta), that have not been previously observed in Antarctica, have been recorded. The potential sources of their presence in Antarctica are discussed.
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