1. Effects of the loss of clonal integration on four sedges that differ in ramet aggregation

   • Nijole Pauliukonis
   • Laura Gough

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 15

2. Tree species diversity and forest structure in relation to microtopography in a tropical freshwater swamp forest in French Guiana

   • Piia Koponen
   • Pekka Nygren
   • Etienne Saur

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 32

3. Effects of seed ingestion and herbivory by waterfowl on seedling establishment: a field experiment with wigeongrass Ruppia maritima in Doñana, south-west Spain

   • Jordi Figuerola
   • Andy J. Green

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 38

4. Scale-dependent relationships between landscape structure and microclimate

   • Ming Xu
   • Ye Qi
   • Bo Song

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 57

5. Effects of white-tailed deer on the population dynamics of acorns, seedlings and small saplings of Quercus buckleyi

   • F. Leland Russell
   • Norma L. Fowler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 72

6. Demographic population structure of a leafy epixylic hepatic Anastrophyllum hellerianum (Nees ex Lindenb.) R.M.Schust

   • Maria Pohjamo
   • Sanna Laaka-Lindberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 81

7. Comparison of floristic changes on vegetation affected by different levels of soil erosion in Miocene clays and Eocene marls from Northeast Spain

   • Joaquín Guerrero-Campo
   • Gabriel Montserrat-Martí

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 93

8. Tree dynamics in canopy gaps in old-growth forests of Nothofagus pumilio in Southern Chile

   • Alex Fajardo
   • Reitze de Graaf

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 105

9. Effects of moisture availability on clonal growth in bamboo Pleioblastus maculata

   • Liu Qing
   • Li Yunxiang
   • Zhong Zhangcheng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 113

10. Siltation and hydrologic regime determine species composition in herbaceous floodplain communities

    • William Sluis
    • John Tandarich

    OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 124

11. Morphological plasticity of a spreading aquatic macrophyte, Ranunculus peltatus, in response to environmental variables

    • Cendrine Garbey
    • Gabrielle Thiébaut
    • Serge Muller

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 137

12. A practical approach to assess the native status of a rare plant species: the controverse of Buxus sempervirens L. in northern France revisited

    • Guillaume Decocq
    • Dorothée Bordier
    • Philippe Racinet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 151