1. An American naturalist's impressions on Australian biodiversity and conservation

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 1 - 7

2. Trends in Romanian biodiversity conservation policy

   • Florin Ioras

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 23

3. Rapid community change at a tropical upwelling site in the Galápagos Marine Reserve

   • Jon D. Witman
   • Franz Smith

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 45

4. Distribution of Tettigoniinae (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) bush-crickets in Turkey: the importance of the Anatolian Taurus Mountains in biodiversity and implications for conservation

   • Battal Çiplak

   OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 64

5. Characteristics and conservation priority of threatened plants in the Yangtze valley

   • Z. Xie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 72

6. Diversity and composition of carabids during a forestry cycle

   • Tibor Magura
   • Béla Tóthmérész
   • Zoltán Elek

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 85

7. Ground flora and associated arthropod communities of forest road edges in Connemara, Ireland

   • K. Mullen
   • O. Fahy
   • M. Gormally

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 101

8. Geospatially structured biodiversity information as a component of a regional biodiversity clearing house

   • Pasi Laihonen
   • Mia Rönkä
   • Risto Kalliola

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 120

9. A quality control protocol for terrestrial invertebrate biodiversity assessment

   • Lance Wilkie
   • Gerasimos Cassis
   • Mike Gray

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 146

10. Estimating the number of species not yet described and their characteristics: the case of Western Palaearctic dung beetle species (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea)

    • F.J. Cabrero-SaÑudo
    • J.M. Lobo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 166

11. Effect of sports fisherman activities on dragonfly assemblages on a Hungarian river floodplain

    • Zoltán Müller
    • Tibor Jakab
    • Roland Horváth

    OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 179

12. Instructions for authors

    Instructions for Authors Pages: 181 - 186