1. Meiofaunal prominence and benthic seasonality in a coastal marine ecosystem

   • D. T. Rudnick
   • R. Elmgren
   • J. B. Frithsen

   Original Papers Pages: 157 - 168

2. Use of nest material as insecticidal and anti-pathogenic agents by the European Starling

   • L. Clark
   • J. Russell Mason

   Original Papers Pages: 169 - 176

3. Are molluscan maximum life spans determined by long-term cycles in benthic communities?

   • Eric N. Powell
   • Hays Cummins

   Original Papers Pages: 177 - 182

4. Experimental studies of herbivory and algal competition in a low intertidal habitat

   • David O. Duggins
   • Megan N. Dethier

   Original Papers Pages: 183 - 191

5. Population dynamics of the ribbed mussel, Geukensia demissa: The costs and benefits of an aggregated distribution

   • Mark D. Bertness
   • Edwin Grosholz

   Original Papers Pages: 192 - 204

6. The use of stable carbon isotope analysis in rooting studies

   • Tony J. Svejcar
   • Thomas W. Boutton

   Original Papers Pages: 205 - 208

7. Carbon import among vegetative tillers within two bunchgrasses: assessment with carbon-11 labelling

   • J. M. Welker
   • E. J. Rykiel Jr.
   • J. D. Goeschl

   Original Papers Pages: 209 - 212

8. The role of habitat in avian community composition: physiognomy or floristics?

   • John T. Rotenberry

   Original Papers Pages: 213 - 217

9. Bioturbation by cyprinid fish affecting the food availability for predatory water mites

   • Erik H. ten Winkel
   • C. Davids

   Original Papers Pages: 218 - 219

10. Size-specific mortality patterns in two species of forest floor Collembola

    • Nico M. van Straalen

    Original Papers Pages: 220 - 223

11. Experimental analyses of competition between two species of bumble bees (Hymenoptera: apidae)

    • Michael A. Bowers

    Original Papers Pages: 224 - 230

12. Oxalate digestibility in Neotoma albigula and Neotoma mexicana

    • Keith E. Justice

    Original Papers Pages: 231 - 234

13. Defoliation increases nutritional quality and allelochemics of pine seedlings

    • Michael R. Wagner
    • Paul D. Evans

    Original Papers Pages: 235 - 237

14. Leaf movement in Calathea lutea (Marantaceae)

    • Thomas J. Herbert
    • Parry B. Larsen

    Original Papers Pages: 238 - 243

15. Incidence of dioecy in relation to growth form, pollination and dispersal

    • J. F. Fox

    Original Papers Pages: 244 - 249

16. Respiration of Cytherissa lacustris (Ostracoda) at different temperatures and its tolerance towards temperature and oxygen concentration

    • Peter Newrkla

    Original Papers Pages: 250 - 254

17. The recolonization potential of Metridium senile in an area previously depopulated by oxygen deficiency

    • Martin Wahl

    Original Papers Pages: 255 - 259

18. Tests of the role of a nuclear polyhedrosis virus in the population dynamics of its host, douglas-fir tussock moth, Orgyia pseudotsugata (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae)

    • Anne Vezina
    • Randall M. Peterman

    Original Papers Pages: 260 - 266

19. Spatial variation in larval concentrations as a cause of spatial variation in settlement for the barnacle, Balanus glandula

    • Steven Gaines
    • Stephen Brown
    • Jonathan Roughgarden

    Original Papers Pages: 267 - 272

20. Home range geometry of the desert scorpion Paruroctonus mesaensis

    • Gary A. Polis
    • C. Neal McReynolds
    • R. Glenn Ford

    Original Papers Pages: 273 - 277

21. A comparative study of the egg-laying behaviour and larval development of Pieris rapae L. and P. brassicae L. on the same host plants

    • C. R. Davies
    • N. Gilbert

    Original Papers Pages: 278 - 281

22. The ingestion and assimilation of algae by Nais elinguis (Oligochaeta: Naididae)

    • D. W. Bowker
    • M. T. Wareham
    • M. A. Learner

    Original Papers Pages: 282 - 285

23. Sexual reproduction and variation in floral morphology in an ephemeral vernal lily, Eyythronium americanum

    • Lawrence D. Harder
    • James D. Thomson
    • Robert S. Unnasch

    Original Papers Pages: 286 - 291

24. On strict and facultative biennials

    • David Kelly

    Short Communications Pages: 292 - 294

25. The effect of temperature on size and development in three species of benthic copepod

    • B. A. Abdullahi
    • Johanna Laybourn-Parry

    Short Communications Pages: 295 - 297

26. Development of acute frost drought in Rhododendron ferrugineum at the alpine timberline

    • Walter Larcher
    • Rolf Siegwolf

    Short Communications Pages: 298 - 300

27. Effects of humidity during diurnal courses on the CO₂- and light-saturated rate of net CO₂ uptake in the sclerophyllous leaves of Arbutus unedo

    • O. L. Lange
    • J. D. Tenhunen
    • W. Beyschlag

    Short Communications Pages: 301 - 304