1. Ranking protected areas in the Azores using standardised sampling of soil epigean arthropods

   • P.A.V. Borges
   • C. Aguiar
   • J. Wunderlich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2029 - 2060

2. Cryptogam communities on decaying deciduous wood – does tree species diversity matter?

   • Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
   • Erik Aude
   • Morten Christensen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2061 - 2078

3. Nesting distribution of vultures in relation to land use in Swaziland

   • Ara Monadjem
   • David K. Garcelon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2079 - 2093

4. Economic development of local communities and biodiversity conservation: a case study from Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, China

   • Zhigang Chen
   • Jingyuan Yang
   • Zongqiang Xie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2095 - 2108

5. Vegetation analysis and tree population structure of tropical wet evergreen forests in and around Namdapha National Park, northeast India

   • P.C. Nath
   • A. Arunachalam
   • A.R. Barbhuiya

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2109 - 2135

6. Management and micro-scale landform determine the ground flora of secondary woodlands and their verges in the Tama Hills of Tokyo, Japan

   • Satoru Okubo
   • Asako Kamiyama
   • Kazuhiko Takeuchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2137 - 2157

7. Evaluation of biodiversity and conservation strategies in Pancratium maritimum L. for the NorthernTyrrhenian Sea

   • Fabrizio Grassi
   • Emanuela Cazzaniga
   • Barbara Basso

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2159 - 2169

8. Ichthyofaunal survey of rivers within Ewekoro cement manufacturing operational areas

   • Victor F. Olaleye

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2171 - 2184

9. Arthropod communities on creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) in desert patches of varying degrees of urbanization

   • Jessamy J. Rango

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2185 - 2206

10. The distribution and conservation of threatened Sphaeriidae on British grazing marshland

    • Alisa M. Watson
    • S.J. Ormerod

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2207 - 2220

11. Genetic diversity among African great apes based on mitochondrial DNA sequences

    • Ana Karina Zavala Guillén
    • Gordon M. Barrett
    • Osamu Takenaka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2221 - 2233

12. Biodiversity patterns along a salinity gradient: the case of net-spinning caddisflies

    • Christophe Piscart
    • Antoine Lecerf
    • Jean-Nicolas Beisel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2235 - 2249

13. Potential for biological conservation in man-modified semiarid habitats in northeastern Jalisco, Mexico

    • Mónica E. Riojas-López
    • Eric Mellink

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2251 - 2263

14. Renewed hope for the threatened avian endemics of northeastern Brazil

    • Juan Mazar Barnett
    • Caio J. Carlos
    • Sônia A. Roda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2265 - 2274