1. Biodiversity patterns in Indian Ocean corals, and effects of taxonomic error in data

   • Charles R. C. Sheppard

   OriginalPaper Pages: 847 - 868

2. Highly skewed sex ratios in the critically endangered Taita thrush as revealed by CHD genes

   • L. Lens
   • P. Galbusera
   • T. Schenck

   OriginalPaper Pages: 869 - 873

3. Assessing human impact despite uncertainty:viability of the northern spotted owl metapopulation in the northwestern USA

   • H. Reşit Akçakaya
   • Martin G. Raphael

   OriginalPaper Pages: 875 - 894

4. The dynamics of trade in live wildlife across the Guangxi border between China and Vietnam during 1993–1996 and its control strategies

   • Li Yiming
   • Li Dianmo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 895 - 914

5. Conserving Britain's biodiversity. I:Thlaspi perfoliatum L. (Brassicaceae), Cotswold Pennycress

   • T. C. G. Rich
   • C. R. Lambrick
   • M. A. R. Kitchen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 915 - 926

6. Morphological grouping of Mexican butterfliesin relation to habitat association

   • Roberto De La Maza
   • Jorge Soberón

   OriginalPaper Pages: 927 - 944

7. National biodiversity risk assessment: a composite multivariate and index approach

   • Belinda Reyers
   • Alberts S. Van Jaarsveld
   • Alexander N. James

   OriginalPaper Pages: 945 - 965

8. Stability of butterfly assemblages in relation to the level of numerical resolution and altitude

   • David Gutiérrez
   • Rosa Menéndez

   OriginalPaper Pages: 967 - 979

9. Book reviews

   OriginalPaper Pages: 981 - 984