1. The silent extinction: climate change and the potential hybridization-mediated extinction of endemic high-mountain plants

   • José M. Gómez
   • Adela González-Megías
   • Francisco Perfectti

   Review Paper 17 March 2015 Pages: 1843 - 1857

   

2. Shrub facilitation is an important driver of alpine plant community diversity and functional composition

   • Mark Ballantyne
   • Catherine Marina Pickering

   Original Paper 14 March 2015 Pages: 1859 - 1875

   

3. Distributional patterns of freshwater ascomycetes communities along an Andes to Amazon elevational gradient in Peru

   • Carol A. Shearer
   • Steven E. Zelski
   • John P. Janovec

   Original Paper 20 March 2015 Pages: 1877 - 1897

   

4. Assessing long-term spatial changes of natural habitats using old maps and archival sources: a case study from Central Europe

   • Markéta Šantrůčková
   • Jiří Dostálek
   • Katarína Demková

   Original Paper 20 March 2015 Pages: 1899 - 1916

   

5. Conservation of Brosimum alicastrum, an underutilized crop and keystone forest tree species; a potential win–win for conservation and development in Latin America

   • Tonya A. Lander
   • Alexandre Monro

   Original Paper 20 March 2015 Pages: 1917 - 1930

   

6. Characteristics for evaluating the conservation value of species hybrids

   • Sarah Piett
   • Heather A. Hager
   • Chelsey Gerrard

   Original Paper 03 April 2015 Pages: 1931 - 1955

   

7. Functional relationships reveal keystone effects of the gopher tortoise on vertebrate diversity in a longleaf pine savanna

   • Christopher P. Catano
   • I. Jack Stout

   Original Paper 03 April 2015 Pages: 1957 - 1974

   

8. The importance of refugia, ecological traps and scale for large carnivore management

   • Ross T. Pitman
   • Lourens H. Swanepoel
   • Guy A. Balme

   Original Paper 02 April 2015 Pages: 1975 - 1987

   

9. Sphagnum farming: the promised land for peat bog species?

   • Christoph Muster
   • Greta Gaudig
   • Hans Joosten

   Original Paper 03 April 2015 Pages: 1989 - 2009

   

10. Island size and remoteness have major conservation significance for how spatial diversity is partitioned in skinks

    • E. Harradine
    • R. A. How
    • P. B. S. Spencer

    Original paper 07 April 2015 Pages: 2011 - 2029

    

11. The benefits from and barriers to participation in civic environmental organisations in South Africa

    • Olivia Higgins
    • Charlie M. Shackleton

    Original Paper 10 April 2015 Pages: 2031 - 2046

    

12. Does agroforestry conserve trees? A comparison of tree species diversity between farmland and forest in mid-hills of central Himalaya

    • Lila Nath Sharma
    • Ole Reidar Vetaas

    Original Paper 12 April 2015 Pages: 2047 - 2061

    

13. The influence of tree architecture, forest remnants, and dispersal syndrome on roadside epiphyte diversity in a highly urbanized tropical environment

    • Muhammad Izuddin
    • Edward L. Webb

    Original Paper 13 May 2015 Pages: 2063 - 2077

    

14. How does the discrepancies among taxonomists affect macroecological patterns? A case study of freshwater snails of Western Siberia

    • Maxim V. Vinarski
    • Sergei S. Kramarenko

    Original Paper 12 May 2015 Pages: 2079 - 2091

    

15. Morisita’s prosperity index revisited

    • Yoshitake Takada

    Commentary 09 May 2015 Pages: 2093 - 2097

16. Fungal conservation in the United States: current status of federal frameworks

    • Naveed Davoodian

    Commentary 14 May 2015 Pages: 2099 - 2104

17. Toothless wildlife protection laws

    • José Vicente López-Bao
    • Juan Carlos Blanco
    • Guillaume Chapron

    Letter to the Editor 20 March 2015 Pages: 2105 - 2108

    

18. Beyond aboveground

    • Larissa Sayuri M. Sugai
    • Jose M. Ochoa-Quintero
    • Fabio O. Roque

    Letter to the Editor 01 April 2015 Pages: 2109 - 2112

    

19. Erratum to: Missing species among Mediterranean non-Siphonophoran Hydrozoa

    • Cinzia Gravili
    • Stanislao Bevilacqua
    • Ferdinando Boero

    Erratum 10 March 2015 Pages: 2113 - 2127