The Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, announces the availability of a new issue of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (AAAR), Volume 41, Number 1 2009. This volume includes a special section with selected presentations from the second SEDIBUD Workshop, held in Abisko, Sweden, in September 2007. 'Edited by Achim A. Beylich, Scott F. Lamoureux, and Armelle Decaulne, the special section includes the following:
- Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments - The SEDIBUD Program. Introduction by Achim A. Beylich, Scott F. Lamoureux, and Armelle Decaulne.
- Sediment Budget and Relief Development in Hrafndalur, Subarctic Oceanic Eastern Iceland, by Achim A. Beylich and Christof Kneisel.
- Proglacial Geomorphology and Sediment Assemblages at Franz Josef Glacier and Fox Glacier, South Westland, New Zealand, by Jonathan L. Carrivick and E. Lucy Rushmer.
- An Overview of Postglacial Sediment Records from Colluvial Accumulations in Northwestern and North Iceland, by Armelle Decaulne, Borsteinn Saemundsson, and Helgi Pall Jonsson.
- Factors Controlling the Distribution of Mountain Permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere and Their Influence on Sediment Transfer, by Bernd Etzelmuller and Regula Frauenfelder.
- Fluvial Impact of Extensive Active Layer Detachments, Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Canada, by Scott F. Lamoureux and Melissa J. Lafreniere.
- Investigating Channel Response to a Dambreak Flood Event in an Alpine River - Downstream Trends in Stream Power and Channel Bed Particle Characteristics, by David Morche and Katja Laute.
- Erosion of Sediment and Organic Carbon from the Kara Sea Coast, by Irina D. Streletskaya, Alexander A. Vasiliev, and Boris G. Vanstein.
Other articles in this volume include:
- Seasonal and Interannual Dietary Variation during Winter in Female Svalbard Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus), by Eirin Bjorkvoll, Bard Pedersen, Hakan Hytteborn, Ingibjorg S. Jonsdottir, and Rolf Langvatn.
- The Evolutionary Significance of Seed Germinability in an Alpine Meadow on the Eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, by HaiYan Bu, GuoZhen Du, XueLin Chen, Yifeng Wang, XiuLi Xu, and Kun Liu.
- Pollen Limitation in the Alpine: a Meta-Analysis, by Raul Garcia-Camacho and Orjan Totland.
- Characterizing Betula litwinowii Seedling Microsites at the Alpine-Treeline Ecotone, Central Greater Caucasus Mountains, Georgia, by Nicole M. Hughes, Daniel M. Johnson, Maia Akhalkatsi, and Otar Abdaladze.
- Effects of Nitrogen Fertilization on Plant Communities of Nonsorted Circles in Moist Nonacidic Tundra, Northern Alaska, by Alexia M. Kelley and Howard E. Epstein.
- Using a GIS to Quantify Patterns of Glacial Erosion on Northwest Iceland: Implications for Independent Ice Sheets, by Sarah M Principato and Jeremiah S. Johnson.
- Glacial-Geologic Evidence for Decreased Precipitation during the Little Ice Age in the Brooks Range, Alaska, by Janelle J. Sikorski, Darrell S. Kaufman, William F. Manley, and Matt Nolan.
- High Species Turnover and Decreasing Plant Species Richness on Mountain Summits in Sweden: Reindeer Grazing Overrides Climate Change? Comment by Leif Kullman.
- High Species Turnover and Decreasing Plant Species Richness on Mountain Summits in Sweden: Reindeer Grazing Overrides Climate Change? Reply by Jon Moen and Anna Lagerstrom.