1. Clonal diversity, genetic structure, and mode of recruitment in a Prunus ssiori population established after volcanic eruptions

   • Teruyoshi Nagamitsu
   • Mifuyu Ogawa
   • Hiroyuki Tanouchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 10

2. Leaf phyllotaxis: Does it really affect light capture?

   • Fernando Valladares
   • Daniela Brites

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 17

3. Effects of flooding regime and woody bamboos on tree community dynamics in a section of tropical semideciduous forest in South-Eastern Brazil

   • Frederico A.G. Guilherme
   • Ary T. Oliveira-Filho
   • Eduardo Bearzoti

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 36

4. Congruency analysis of species ranking based on leaf traits: which traits are the more reliable?

   • Philip Roche
   • Natalia Díaz-Burlinson
   • Sophie Gachet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 48

5. Effects of land use history on hurricane damage and recovery in a neotropical forest

   • M. Uriarte
   • L.W. Rivera
   • A.S. Flecker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 58

6. Floristic similarities between lowland and montane areas of Atlantic Coastal Forest in Northeastern Brazil

   • Elba Maria Nogueira Ferraz
   • Elcida de Lima Araújo
   • Suzene Izídio da Silva

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 70

7. Flower production in relation to individual plant age and leaf production among different patches of Corydalis intermedia

   • Bodil Kirstine Ehlers
   • Jens Mogens Olesen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 78

8. Vegetation ordination at the southern Chihuahuan Desert (San Luis Potosi, Mexico)

   • Francisco Martín Huerta-Martínez
   • José Antonio Vázquez-García
   • Humberto Vaquera-Huerta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 87

9. Effects of microbial mats on germination and seedling survival of typical dune slack species in the Netherlands

   • Erwin B. Adema
   • Jelmer A. Elzinga
   • Ab P. Grootjans

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 96

10. Impacts of the exotic, nitrogen-fixing black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) on nitrogen-cycling in a pine–oak ecosystem

    • Steven K. Rice
    • Bryant Westerman
    • Robert Federici

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 107

11. Demography of the columnar cactus Neobuxbaumia macrocephala: a comparative approach using population projection matrices

    • Héctor Godínez-Alvarez
    • Alfonso Valiente-Banuet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 118

12. Impacts of land use on riparian forest along an urban – rural gradient in southern Manitoba

    • S.F. Moffatt
    • S.M. McLachlan
    • N.C. Kenkel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 135

13. Growth and abundance of desert annuals in an arid woodland in Oman

    • Michael D. Robinson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 145

14. Habitat associations with topography and canopy structure of tree species in a tropical montane forest on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

    • Shin-ichiro Aiba
    • Kanehiro Kitayama
    • Masaaki Takyu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 161

15. Geographical distribution of Eupatorieae (Asteraceae) in South-eastern and South Brazilian Mountain Ranges

    • Adriana M. Almeida
    • Paulo I. Prado
    • Thomas M. Lewinsohn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 181

16. Delayed post-fire seedling emergence linked to season: a case study with Leucopogon species (Epacridaceae)

    • Mark K.J. Ooi
    • Tony D. Auld
    • Robert J. Whelan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 196