1. Editorial

   EditorialNotes Pages: v - vi

2. Evaluating performance of an Appalachian oak forest dynamics model

   • Elizabeth A. Harrison
   • Herman H. Shugart

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 13

3. Species diversity in relation to ultramafic substrate and to altitude in southwestern New Zealand

   • J. Bastow Wilson
   • William G. Lee
   • Alan F. Mark

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 20

4. A note on the dynamics of montane virginPicea yezoensis forest in the Greater Khingan Mts, Northeastern China

   • Wu Hong-qi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 24

5. Plant communities and phytogeographical position of a large depression in the Great Chaco, Argentina

   • J. P. Lewis
   • E. F. Pire
   • Nélida J. Carnevale

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 38

6. Epigeic lichen communities of taiga and tundra regions

   • Teuvo Ahti
   • Jari Oksanen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 70

7. Aquatic macrophyte communities as bioindicators of eutrophication in calcareous oligosaprobe stream waters (Upper Rhine plain, Alsace)

   • R. Carbiener
   • M. Trémolières
   • A. Ortscheit

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 88

8. Book reviews

   BookReview Pages: 89 - 98

9. Short notices

   Announcement Pages: 99 - 99

10. List of reviewers who served Vegetatio in 1989

    Legacy Pages: 100 - 100