The effects of a typhoon on Japanese warm temperate rainforests P. J. BellinghamTakashi KohyamaShin-ichiro Aiba OriginalPaper Pages: 229 - 247
Pollination of the orchidEpipactis thunbergii by syrphid flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) Naoto Sugiura OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 255
Microdistribution of sulfate-reducing bacteria in sediments of a hypertrophic lake and their response to the addition of organic matter Manabu FukuiSusumu Takii OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 267
Changes in foliage distribution with relative irradiance and tree size: Differences between the saplings ofAcer platanoides andQuercus robur Ülo Niinemets OriginalPaper Pages: 269 - 281
Herbivory pattern and induced responses to simulated herbivory inQuercus mongolica var.grosseserrata Gaku Kudo OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 289
Production and population ecology ofPhyllospadix iwatensis Makino. II. Comparative studies on leaf characteristics, foliage structure and biomass change in an intertidal and subtidal zone Tohru YabeIsao IkusimaTakayoshi Tsuchiya OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 297
Topographic variations of soil properties and stand structure in aPinus thunbergii plantation Tsutomu EnokiHideyuki KawaguchiGoro Iwatsubo OriginalPaper Pages: 299 - 309
The spatial pattern and canopy-understory association of trees in a cool temperate, mixed forest in western Japan Nobuhiro Akashi OriginalPaper Pages: 311 - 319
Resource availability and growth responses to defoliation in seedlings of three early-successional, tropical, woody species W. H. L. LimI. M. Turner OriginalPaper Pages: 321 - 324
Vegetation structure in relation to micro-landform in an evergreen broad-leaved forest on Amami Ohshima Island, south-west Japan Masatoshi HaraKazuhiro HirataKeiichi Oono OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 337
Landform effects on fire behavior and post-fire regeneration in the mixed forests of northern Japan Sadao TakaokaKaichiro Sasa OriginalPaper Pages: 339 - 349
Differentiation and maintenance of topo-community patterns with reference to regeneration dynamics in mixed cool temperate forests in the Chichibu Mountains, central Japan Naoya YoshidaMasahiko Ohsawa OriginalPaper Pages: 351 - 362
Structure and regeneration ofFraxinus spaethiana-Pterocarya rhoifolia forests in unstable valleys in the Chichibu Mountains, central Japan Seoung Won AnnYasuyuki Oshima OriginalPaper Pages: 363 - 370
Vertical variation in fecundity of the intertidal gastropodMonodonta labio caused by different growth rates between tidal zones Yoshitake Takada OriginalPaper Pages: 371 - 379
Nutritional diversity of symbiotic ascidians in a Fijian seagrass meadow Isao KoikeTakao Suzuki Note and Comment Pages: 381 - 386