1. Lizard assemblages in the Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

   • Patricia Galina-Tessaro
   • Aradit Castellanos-Vera
   • Alfredo Ortega-Rubio

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1321 - 1334

2. Species richness in agroecosystems: the effect of landscape, habitat and farm management

   • Ann-Christin Weibull
   • Örjan Östman
   • Åsa Granqvist

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1335 - 1355

3. Edge effects and extinction proneness in a herpetofauna from Madagascar

   • Richard M. Lehtinen
   • Jean-Baptiste Ramanamanjato
   • Joé Gaby Raveloarison

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1357 - 1370

4. Size does matter – effects of tropical rainforest fragmentation on the leaf litter ant community in Sabah, Malaysia

   • Carsten A. Brühl
   • Thomas Eltz
   • K. Eduard Linsenmair

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1371 - 1389

5. Rediscovery of the ‘extinct’ Lord Howe Island stick-insect (Dryococelus australis (Montrouzier)) (Phasmatodea) and recommendations for its conservation

   • David Priddel
   • Nicholas Carlile
   • Dean Hiscox

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1391 - 1403

6. Assignment and evaluation of ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages to sites on different scales in a grassland landscape

   • Ulrich Irmler
   • Ursula Hoernes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1405 - 1419

7. Rapid acquisition and dissemination of standardized biological inventories from Russian Biosphere Reserves

   • Robert J. Meese
   • Valeri M. Neronov
   • Michael Ruggiero

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1421 - 1429

8. Diversity of mammals in the tropical–temperate Neotropics: hotspots on a regional scale

   • R.A. Ojeda
   • J. Stadler
   • R. Brandl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1431 - 1444

9. Silvicultural intensification for tropical forest conservation

   • Todd S. Fredericksen
   • Francis E. Putz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1445 - 1453

10. Ecogeographical analysis of the distribution of six Trifolium species in Sardinia

    • Sarita Jane Bennett
    • Simonetta Bullitta

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1455 - 1466

11. Small habitat islands are inferior breeding habitats but are used by some great tits – competition or ignorance?

    • Jon Loman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1467 - 1479

12. Shading out species richness: edge effect of a pine plantation on the Orthoptera (Tettigoniidae and Acrididae) assemblage of an adjacent dry grassland

    • Georg Bieringer
    • Klaus Peter Zulka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1481 - 1495

13. Vascular plant diversity in the sacred groves of Jaintia Hills in northeast India

    • S. Alemmeren Jamir
    • H.N. Pandey

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1497 - 1510

14. Regulating access to genetic resources under the Convention on Biological Diversity: an analysis of selected case studies

    • Liliana M. Dávalos
    • Robin R. Sears
    • Ana Luz Porzecanski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1511 - 1524

15. Reduced survey intensity and its consequences for marine reserve selection

    • William Gladstone
    • Jennifer Davis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1525 - 1536

16. Defining a role for herbarium data in Red List assessments: a case study of Plectranthus from eastern and southern tropical Africa

    • Fiona Willis
    • Justin Moat
    • Alan Paton

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1537 - 1552