1. Tissue culture for the conservation and mass propagation of Vriesea reitzii Leme and Costa, a bromeliad threatened of extinction from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

   • A. Rech Filho
   • L.L. Dal Vesco
   • M.P. Guerra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1799 - 1808

2. Colonizing potential of Drosophilidae (Insecta, Diptera) in environments with different grades of urbanization

   • Luzitano B. Ferreira
   • Rosana Tidon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1809 - 1821

3. Providing nest boxes for hole-nesting birds – Does habitat matter?

   • Raivo Mänd
   • Vallo Tilgar
   • &Agu Leivits

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1823 - 1840

4. Influence of forest development phase on centipede diversity in managed beech forests in Slovenia

   • Tanja Grgič
   • Ivan Kos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1841 - 1862

5. Conservation categories of siluroid fishes in North-East Sundarbans, India

   • Manoj Kumar Patra
   • Sankar Kumar Acharjee
   • Susanta Kumar Chakraborty

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1863 - 1876

6. Major gaps in the distribution of protected areas for threatened and narrow range Afrotropical plants

   • Neil Burgess
   • Wolfgang KÜper
   • Jon C. Lovett

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1877 - 1894

7. Short-term effects of experimental boreal forest &logging disturbance on bumble bees, bumble &bee-pollinated flowers and the bee–flower match

   • Ralph V. Cartar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1895 - 1907

8. Man-induced habitat changes and sensitive species: a GIS approach to the Eurasian Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) distribution in a Mediterranean wetland

   • Luca Puglisi
   • M. Claudia Adamo
   • N. Emilio Baldaccini

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1909 - 1922

9. An estimation of the floristic richness of Bolivia’s Andean dry valleys

   • Daniel Larrea-Alcázar
   • Ramiro Pablo López

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1923 - 1927

10. Exotic species of freshwater decapod crustaceans in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: records and possible causes of their introduction

    • Célio Magalhães
    • Sérgio Luiz S. Bueno
    • Sérgio S. Rocha

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1929 - 1945

11. Linking ecological and social systems in cities: urban planning in Finland as a case

    • Vesa Yli-Pelkonen
    • Jari Niemelä

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1947 - 1967

12. Agri-environment schemes and butterflies: the utilisation of 6 m grass margins

    • R.G. Field
    • T. Gardiner
    • J. Hill

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1969 - 1976

13. Detecting biodiversity hotspots using species–area and endemics–area relationships: the case of butterflies

    • Ulrich Werner
    • JarosŁaw Buszko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1977 - 1988

14. Early effects of forest regeneration with selective and small scale clear-cutting on ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in a Norway spruce stand in Southern Bavaria (Höglwald)

    • Christian Huber
    • Manuela Baumgarten

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1989 - 2007

15. Information as a regulatory instrument to price biodiversity benefits: certification and ecolabeling policy practices

    • Paulo A.L.D. Nunes
    • Yohanes E. Riyanto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2009 - 2027