Dinoflagellate Cysts and Paleoceanography of High Latitude Marine Environments. Special Issue edited by Jens Mattheissen and Anne de Vernal. Journal of Quaternary Science, Vol. 16 (7), October 2001. Available online in pdf format at http://www.interscience.wiley.com

Contents:

• Peta J. Mudie, Rex Harland, Jens Matthiessen, and Anne de Vernal. Marine dinoflagellate cysts and high latitude Quaternary paleoenvironmental reconstructions: an introduction. p. 595-602.

• Peta J. Mudie and André Rochon. Distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in the Canadian Arctic marine region, p. 603-620.

• Martin J. Head, Rex Harland, and Jens Matthiessen. Cold marine indicators of the late Quaternary: the new dinoflagellate cyst genus Islandinium and related morphotypes, p. 621-636.

• Martina Kunz-Pirrung. Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in surface sediments of the Laptev Sea region (Arctic Ocean) and their relationship to hydrographic condition, p. 637-649.

• Kari Grøsfjeld and Rex Harland. Distribution of modern dinoflagellate cysts from inshore areas along the coast of southern Norway, p. 651-659.

• Karin P. Boessenkool, Marie-jos Van Gelder, Henk Brinkhuis, and Simon R. Troelstra. Distribution of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments from transects across the Polar Front offshore southeast Greenland, p. 661-666.

• Taoufik Radi, Anne de Vernal, and Odile Peyron. Relationships between dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in surface sediment and hydrographic conditions in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, p. 667-780.

• Anne de Vernal, Maryse Henry, Jens Matthiessen, Peta J. Mudie, André Rochon, Karin P. Boessenkool, Frédérique Eynaud, Kari Grøsfjeld, Joël Guiot, Dominique Hamel, Rex Harland, Martin J. Head, Martina Kunz-Pirrung, Elisabeth Levac, Virginie Loucheur, Odile Peyron, Vera Pospelova, Taoufik Radi, Jean-Louis Turon, and Elena Voronina. Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages as tracers of sea-surface conditions in the northern North Atlantic, Arctic and sub-Arctic seas: the new n = 677 data base and its application for quantitative palaeoceanographic reconstruction, p. 681-698.

• Odile Peyron, and Anne de Vernal. Application of artificial neural networks (ANN) to high-latitude dinocyst assemblages for the reconstruction of past sea-surface conditions in Arctic and sub-Arctic seas, p. 699-709.

• Martina Kunz-Pirrung, Jens Matthiessen, and Anne de Vernal. Late Holocene dinoflagellate cysts as indicators for short-term climate variability in the eastern Laptev Sea (Arctic Ocean), p. 711-716.

• Elena Voronina, Leonid Polyak, Anne De Vernal, and Odile Peyron. Holocene variations of sea-surface conditions in the southeastern Barents Sea, reconstructed from dinoflagellate cyst assemblages, p. 717-726.

• Jens Matthiessen, and Jochen Knies. Dinoflagellate cyst evidence for warm interglacial conditions at the northern Barents Sea margin during marine oxygen isotope stage 5, p. 727-737.

• Fabienne Marret, Anne de Vernal, Ferial Benderra, and Rex Harland. Late Quaternary sea-surface conditions at DSDP Hole 594 in the southwest Pacific Ocean based on dinoflagellate cyst assemblages, p. 739-751.