1. Seed supply of native and cultivated grasses in pine forests of the southwestern United States and the potential for vegetation recovery following wildfire

   • Molly E. Hunter
   • Philip N. Omi

   OriginalPaper 16 July 2005 Pages: 1 - 8

2. Mortality over 16 years of cacti in a burnt desert grassland

   • P. A. Thomas

   OriginalPaper 20 July 2005 Pages: 9 - 17

3. Competitive relationships between two contrasting but coexisting grasses

   • Lei Ba
   • Deli Wang
   • Naizhong Xiao

   OriginalPaper 19 July 2005 Pages: 19 - 26

4. Water and fertilizer have opposite effects on plant species richness in a mesic early successional habitat

   • M. Henry H. Stevens
   • Rebecca Shirk
   • Claire E. Steiner

   OriginalPaper 20 July 2005 Pages: 27 - 34

5. Ecophysiology, growth timing and reproductive effort of three sexual foms of Corema album (Empetraceae)

   • M. Zunzunegui
   • M.C. Díaz Barradas
   • F. García Novo

   OriginalPaper 12 August 2005 Pages: 35 - 46

6. Potential for higher invasiveness of the alien Oxalis pes-caprae on islands than on the mainland

   • Montserrat Vilà
   • Isabel Gimeno

   OriginalPaper 16 July 2005 Pages: 47 - 53

7. Ramet dynamics in a centrifugally expanding clonal sedge: a matrix analysis

   • Sofie Wikberg
   • Brita M. Svensson

   OriginalPaper 21 July 2005 Pages: 55 - 63

8. Small-scale spatial heterogeneity in the vertical distribution of soil nutrients has limited effects on the growth and development of Prosopis glandulosa seedlings

   • Fernando T. Maestre
   • James F. Reynolds

   OriginalPaper 21 July 2005 Pages: 65 - 75

9. Exclusive frugivory and seed dispersal of Rhamnus alaternus in the bird breeding season

   • Josep M. Bas
   • Pere Pons
   • Crisanto Gómez

   OriginalPaper 21 July 2005 Pages: 77 - 89

10. Nickel hyperaccumulation by Streptanthus polygaloides protects against the folivore Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae)

    • Edward M. Jhee
    • Robert S. Boyd
    • Micheal A. Davis

    OriginalPaper 02 August 2005 Pages: 91 - 104

11. Low vegetation recovery after short-term cattle exclusion on Robinson Crusoe Island

    • Jaime G. Cuevas
    • Carlos Le Quesne

    OriginalPaper 06 August 2005 Pages: 105 - 124

12. Morphological consequences of the trade-off between growth and reproduction in a columnar cactus (Lophocereus schottii)

    • Carlos Martorell
    • Ernesto Vega
    • Exequiel Ezcurra

    OriginalPaper 23 September 2005 Pages: 125 - 131

13. Effects of gap size and associated changes in light and soil moisture on the understorey vegetation of a Hungarian beech forest

    • László Gálhidy
    • Barbara Mihók
    • Tibor Standovár

    OriginalPaper 20 October 2005 Pages: 133 - 145

14. Differential effects of clonal integration on performance in the stoloniferous herb Duchesnea indica, as growing at two sites with different altitude

    • Jin-Song Chen
    • Ning-Fei Lei
    • Ming Dong

    OriginalPaper 23 July 2005 Pages: 147 - 156

15. Contrasting demographies and persistence of rare annual plants in highly variable environments

    • Laurel R. Fox
    • Heather N. Steele
    • Margaret H. Fusari

    OriginalPaper 23 September 2005 Pages: 157 - 170

16. The regeneration of a protected Sonoran Desert cactus since 1800 A.D. over 50,000 km² of its range

    • Taly Dawn Drezner

    OriginalPaper 25 August 2005 Pages: 171 - 176

17. Patterns of ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) colonization in mountain grasslands: the importance of management practices

    • Julien Marie-Pierre
    • Alard Didier
    • Balent Gérard

    OriginalPaper 09 August 2005 Pages: 177 - 189