chapter Life, death and fighting at high latitude: a review -- David K.A. Barnes / chapter Late Miocene Bryozoa from the Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain): eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean environment and biogeography -- B. Berning P. Moissette -- chapter Bryozoa of the Romaine and Mingan Formations (Lower and Middle Ordovician) of the Mingan Islands, Quebec, Canada -- Thomas E. Bolton (deceased) Roger J. Cuffey / chapter Bryozoan species and roles in small Waulsortian-like mud-mound bioherms in the Mississippian of the American Mid-West -- Roger J. Cuffey -- chapter Lower Carboniferous Bryozoa from some localities in Sauerland, Germany -- Andrej Ernst / chapter Bryozoans from the Artinskian (Lower Permian) Great Bear Cape Formation, Ellesmere Island (Canadian Arctic) / chapter Taxonomic composition and structure of bryozoan-associated biofilms from Japan and New Zealand -- G. Gerdes J. Kaselowsky / chapter The cheilostomatous genera of Alcide d�Orbigny nomenclatural and taxonomic status -- Dennis P. Gordon Paul D. Taylor / chapter Oshurkovia: a new genus of Umbonulidae (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the northwest Pacific -- Andrei V. Grischenko and Shunsuke F. Mawatari / chapter Diversity, evolution and palaeoecology of the Tertiary bryozoan assemblages of western Kachchh, Gujarat, India -- Asit K. Guha and K. Gopikrishna -- chapter Revised biological definition of the Bryozoa -- Jean-Loup d�Hondt / chapter A review of non-commensal loxosomatids: collection, culture, and taxonomy, with new implications to the benefit of commensalism (Entoprocta: Loxosomatidae) -- T. Iseto -- chapter Gigantism in Permian trepostomes from Greenland: testing the algal symbiosis hypothesis using C and O values -- Marcus M. Key, Jr. Patrick N. Wyse Jackson -- chapter Bryozoan mode of life in the high Arctic dynamic fjordic environment, Spitsbergen -- Piotr Kuklinski / chapter Bryodiversity on coastal boulders at Spitsbergen / chapter Cheilostomate Bryozoa of the Bellingshausen Sea (Western Antarctica): a preliminary report of the results of the Bentart 2003 Spanish Expedition -- C.M. L�pez-F -- chapter The potential role of microbial activity and mineralization in exoskeletal development in Microporellidae -- Penny A. Morris Dorothy F. Soule -- chapter Bryozoa of the CIMAR-7 Expedition to the Aysenian fjords and channels, southern Chile -- Hugo I. Moyano G. / chapter Some middle Permian bryozoans from Svalbard, Arctic Norway -- Hans Arne Nakrem / chapter Morphological differentiation in the Celleporella hyalina (Linnaeus, 1767) complex (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) along the Chilean coast / chapter Submarine freshwater springs in the Adriatic Sea: a unique habitat for the bryozoan Pentapora fascialis -- Maja Novosel Goran Olujic -- chapter Ovicell development in the early calloporid Wilbertopora Cheetham, 1954 (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the mid-Cretaceous of the USA -- Andrew N. Ostrovsky Paul D. Taylor -- chapter Taxonomy and distribution of Bugula (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata: Anasca) in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil -- La's Vieira Ramalho / chapter Bryozoans and stratigraphy, Upper Richmondian (Cincinnatian, Ordovician) -- June R.P. Ross Charles A. Ross / chapter Bryozoan facies in deep-sea Pleistocene environments of southern Italy -- Antonietta Rosso / chapter Variation in zooid size in two west European species of Alcyonidium (Ctenostomatida) -- John S. Ryland and Joanne S. Porter* / chapter Palaeoenvironments of Eocene Bryozoa, St Vincent Basin, South Australia / chapter Infestation of a temperate reservoir by freshwater bryozoans: an integrated research programme -- Abigail M. Smith, Michelle A. Brunton and Peter B. Batson / chapter Ovicell pores and frontal wall pore sieve plates in eastern Pacific Microporellidae -- Dorothy F. Soule Penny A. Morris / chapter Freshwater Bryozoa of Italy. A survey of some species from the Italian bryozoan collection of A. Vigan with new records -- M.I. Taticchi and G. Pieroni -- chapter Preliminary overview of the cheilostome bryozoan Microporella -- Paul D. Taylor Shunsuke F. Mawatari / chapter A biogeographical analysis of Indo-West Pacific cheilostome bryozoan faunas -- Kevin J. Tilbrook Sammy De Grave / chapter Some remarkable Bryozoa from the Neogene of Moravia (Czech Republic) -- N. V�vra -- chapter The higher phylogeny of Phylactolaemate bryozoans inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA sequences -- Timothy S. Wood and Michael B. Lore / chapter The distribution of freshwater bryozoans in Austria -- Emmy R. W'ss / chapter A bryozoan fauna from the Carboniferous (Mississippian, Late Vis�an) of the Velbert Anticline, Germany -- Patrick N. Wyse Jackson Hans Martin Weber -- chapter A bryozoan and foraminifera association from the Miocene of Podbrezice, south Moravia (Czech Republic): an environmental history -- Kamil Z�gorsek Katar�na Holcov -- chapter List of participants.