1. Edaphically distinct habitats shape the crown architecture of Lychnophora ericoides Mart. (Asteraceae) on tropical mountaintops

   • Amauri Pires Bueno
   • Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro
   • Hildeberto Caldas de Sousa

   OriginalPaper 05 April 2017 Pages: 773 - 784

   

2. Morphological plasticity in response to population density varies with soil conditions and growth stage in Abutilon theophrasti (Malvaceae)

   • Shu Wang
   • Lei Li
   • Dao-Wei Zhou

   OriginalPaper 03 June 2017 Pages: 785 - 797

   

3. Fire enhances litter decomposition and reduces vegetation cover influences on decomposition in a dry woodland

   • H. L. Throop
   • M. Abu Salem
   • W. G. Whitford

   OriginalPaper 19 April 2017 Pages: 799 - 811

   

4. Alpine plant species have limited capacity for long-distance seed dispersal

   • J. W. Morgan
   • S. E. Venn

   BriefCommunication 25 April 2017 Pages: 813 - 819

   

5. Phylogenetic constraints to soil properties determine elevational diversity gradients of forest understory vegetation

   • Nobuhiko Shigyo
   • Kiyoshi Umeki
   • Toshihide Hirao

   OriginalPaper 26 April 2017 Pages: 821 - 834

   

6. Nutrient enrichment increases plant biomass and exotic plant proportional cover independent of warming in freshwater wetland communities

   • Maria M. Meza-Lopez
   • Evan Siemann

   BriefCommunication 27 April 2017 Pages: 835 - 842

   

7. A dominant dwarf shrub increases diversity of herbaceous plant communities in a Trans-Himalayan rangeland

   • Siddharth Bharath Iyengar
   • Sumanta Bagchi
   • Mahesh Sankaran

   OriginalPaper 02 May 2017 Pages: 843 - 854

   

8. Effects of mast seeding and rodent abundance on seed predation and dispersal of Quercus aliena (Fagaceae) in Qinling Mountains, Central China

   • Jing Wang
   • Bo Zhang
   • Gang Chang

   OriginalPaper 22 May 2017 Pages: 855 - 865

   

9. Herbivore-induced expansion of Helianthemum nummularium in grassland–scrub mosaic vegetation: circumstantial evidence for zoochory and indirect grazing impact

   • Tanja Milotić
   • Harti Ningsih Suyoto
   • Maurice Hoffmann

   OriginalPaper 10 May 2017 Pages: 867 - 884

   

10. Environmental drivers of subalpine and alpine fen vegetation in the Southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA

    • Betsy L. Harbert
    • David J. Cooper

    OriginalPaper 22 May 2017 Pages: 885 - 898

    

11. Exploring the relationship between canopy height and terrestrial plant diversity

    • Roberto Cazzolla Gatti
    • Arianna Di Paola
    • Riccardo Valentini

    OriginalPaper 24 May 2017 Pages: 899 - 908