1. Species-rich beech woods in mesic habitats in central and western Europe: a regional classification into suballiances

   • Hartmut Dierschke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 9

2. Structure of the woody vegetation in disturbed and undisturbed arid savanna, Botswana

   • Christina Skarpe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 18

3. The ecological reference framework for Québec: a useful tool for forest sites evaluation

   • Vincent Gerardin
   • Jean -Pierre Ducruc

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 27

4. Regeneration of N.W. African Pinus halepensis forests following fire

   • J. Moravec

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 36

5. Root biomass, root distribution and the fine-root growth dynamics of Quercus coccifera L. in the garrigue of southern France

   • Jochen Kummerow
   • Margarete Kummerow
   • Louis Trabaud

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 44

6. Germination of Quercus ilex and Q. pubescens in a Q. ilex coppice

   • D. Bran
   • O. Lobréaux
   • F. Romane

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 50

7. Small-scale patterning in the recruitment of forest species during succession in tropical dry forest, Mozambique

   • B. M. Campbell
   • T. Lynam
   • J. C. Hatton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 57

8. The distribution of epiphyte growth-forms in the canopy of a Colombian cloud-forest

   • A. van Leerdam
   • R. J. Zagt
   • E. J. Veneklaas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 71

9. Population structure and succession in temperate forests of southwestern Japan

   • Nobukazu Nakagoshi
   • Shuji Wada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 84

10. The Finnish forest site type approach: ordination and classification studies of mesic forest sites in southern Finland

    • Tiina Tonteri
    • Juha -Pekka Hotanen
    • Jussi Kuusipalo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 98

11. Announcement

    Announcement Pages: 99 - 99