Seedling recruitment and facilitation dependence on safe site characteristics in a Himalayan treeline ecotone Birgit BürzleUdo SchickhoffJens Oldeland OriginalPaper 15 November 2017 Pages: 115 - 132
Opposite effects of litter and hemiparasites on a dominant grass under different water regimes and competition levels Alejandro LoydiR. Lutz EcksteinTobias W. Donath OriginalPaper 15 November 2017 Pages: 133 - 144
Similar responses in morphology, growth, biomass allocation, and photosynthesis in invasive Wedelia trilobata and native congeners to CO2 enrichment Liping HeJijun KongKe Chen OriginalPaper 24 November 2017 Pages: 145 - 157
Relatives growing together: pair density and kinship Jie LiXingliang Xu OriginalPaper 20 November 2017 Pages: 159 - 168
Impacts of anthropogenic disturbances on forest succession in the mid-montane forests of Central Himalaya Niyati NaudiyalJoachim Schmerbeck OriginalPaper 22 November 2017 Pages: 169 - 183
Ecophysiology of frailejones (Espeletia spp.), and its contribution to the hydrological functioning of páramo ecosystems María Fernanda CárdenasConrado TobónJorge Ignacio del Valle OriginalPaper 27 November 2017 Pages: 185 - 198
The dynamics of recalcitrant seed banks of Mauritia flexuosa (Arecaceae) reveal adaptations to marsh microenvironments Keila Cristina Novais PortoYule Roberta Ferreira NunesLeonardo Monteiro Ribeiro OriginalPaper 25 November 2017 Pages: 199 - 207
Evergreen alpine shrubs have high freezing resistance in spring, irrespective of snowmelt timing and exposure to frost: an investigation from the Snowy Mountains, Australia Susanna E. VennKen Green OriginalPaper 26 December 2017 Pages: 209 - 216
Increased precipitation modulates the influence of nitrogen and litter inputs on the nutrient resorption proficiency rather than efficiency of Leymus chinensis Yue ShenXin YangYingjun Zhang OriginalPaper 30 December 2017 Pages: 217 - 230