1. Local characterization of vegetation through growth forms: Mediterranean Quercus ilex coppice as an example

   • C. Floret
   • N. J. Galan
   • F. Romane

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 11

2. The vegetation of a New Zealand dune slack

   • Martin T. Sykes
   • J. Bastow Wilson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 19

3. The ecobiological structure of a mediterranean petrophyte steppe on the southern coast of Crimea

   • V. Golubev

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 32

4. Temporal changes in therophytic communities across the boundary of disturbed-intact ecosystems

   • F. D. Pineda
   • M. A. Casado
   • C. Levassor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 39

5. A comparison of reciprocal averaging and non-centred principal components analysis

   • Exequiel Ezcurra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 47

6. The desert vegetation of El Pinacate, Sonora, Mexico

   • Exequiel Ezcurra
   • Miguel Equihua
   • Jorge Lopez-Portillo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 60

7. Book reviews

   BookReview Pages: 61 - 64