I Arctic Communities, Past, Present and Future.- Arctic ecosystems and environmental change: perceptions from the past and predictions for the future.- Arctic phytogeography: plant diversity, floristic richness, migrations, and acclimation to changing climates.- Natural disturbance in high arctic vegetation.- An arctic environmental database for Europe and Asia.- II Arctic Communities Under Stress.- Transformation of northern ecosystems under stress: artic ecological changes from the perspective of ecosystem health.- Adaptation to disturbance as a part of the strategy of arctic and alpine plants: perspectives for management and restoration.- Interpreting environmental manipulation experiments in arctic ecosystems: are 'disturbance' responses properly accounted for?.- Role of nitrogen-fixing cryptogamic plants in the tundra.- Long-term damage to sub-arctic coastal ecosystems by geese: ecological indicators and measures of ecosystem dysfunction.- Disturbance and recovery of permafrost terrain.- Arctic ecosystem stability and disturbance: A West- Siberian case history.- Numeric simulation of thermokarst formation during disturbance.- Pollution impact on insect biodiversity in boreal forests: evaluation of effects and perspectives on recovery.- III. Heavy Metal Pollution.- Satellite remote sensing of the impact of industrial pollution on tundra biodiversity.- The structure of tundra plant cover as an ecological indicator in the Kola Peninsula.- Pollution of podzol soils by heavy metals.- Pollution-induced changes in nutritional status of pine forests on the northern tree line (Kola Peninsula).- Scots pine needle wax and air pollution in the subarctic.- Heavy metal concentrations in lake sediments as an index of freshwater ecosystem pollution.- Free radical oxidationactivity and pigment concentrations in leaves of mountain birches affected by aerial pollution.- IV Anthropogenic Disturbance.- Anthropogenic tundra disturbance in Canada and Russia.- Vegetation recovery following anthropogenic disturbances in Greenland.- Monitoring of radioactive contamination of the shores of the Kola Peninsula, Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land.- V Oil Extraction and Ecosystem Disturbance.- Usinsk oil spill:Environmental catastrophe or routine event?.- Patterns and rates of, and factors affecting, natural recovery on land disturbed by oil development in Arctic Alaska.- Effects of winter seismic exploration on tundra vegetation and the soil thermal regime on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.- VI Ecosystem Recovery at High Latitudes.- Arctic Alaskan vegetation disturbance and recovery.- Reproductive behaviour of arctic/alpine plants and ecological restoration.- Long-term tundra recovery in northern Alaska.- Long-term conservation strategies.- Self-recovery after technogenic and natural disturbances in the central part of the Yamal Peninsula (Western Siberian Arctic).- Carbon-nutrient interactions as constraints on recovery of Arctic ecosystems from disturbance.- Natural vegetation recovery on anthropogenically disturbed sites in North western Siberia.- The secondary successions of Arctic ecosystems in relation to tundra restoration.- Disturbance of tundra ecosystems and their restoration in the far north of Russia.- Color plates.
