Demographic traits of understory trees and population dynamics of aPicea-Abies forest in Taisetsuzan National Park, northern Japan Yasuhiro Kubota OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 9
Growth characteristics ofNelumbo nucifera Gaertn. in response to water depth and flooding Seiichi NoharaMakoto Kimura OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 20
The effect of burning on soil enzyme activities in natural grasslands in southern India Kurunthachalam SenthilkumarSellamuthu ManianKaruthamuthu Udaiyan OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 25
The impact of extreme run-off events from the Sakasagawa river on the Senjogahara ecosystem, Nikko National Park. IV. Changes in tree and understory vegetation distribution patterns from 1982 to 1992 Tukasa HukusimaMasato Yoshikawa OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 38
The impact of extreme run-off events from the Sakasagawa river on the Senjogahara ecosystem, Nikko National Park. V. The importance of adventitious root systems for burial tolerance of different tree species Masato YoshikawaTukasa Hukusima OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 46
Comparative study of the mass loss rate of moss litter in boreal and subalpine forests in relation to temperature Takayuki NakatsuboMasaki UchinaKaneyuki Nakane OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 54
Photosynthesis and micro-environmental factors in a spring ephemeral,Erythronium japonicum, from native and open habitats Shinichi SawadaMasanori YamashitaAkiko Hashimoto OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 62
Can the tortoise beat the hare? A possible mechanism for the coexistence of competing mosquitoes in bamboo groves Toshihiko SunaharaMotoyoshi Mogi OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 70
Colony genetic structure in the mono- and polygynous sibling species of the antsCamponotus nawai andCamponotus yamaokai: DNA fingerprint analysis Toshiyuki SatohKeiichi MasukoTadao Matsumoto OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 76
Modelling canopy photosynthesis using parameters determined from simple non-destructive measurements Niels P. R. Anten OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 88
Dry matter production, population structure and environmental conditions of the spring ephemeralErythronium japonicum growing in various habitats differing in sunlight exposure in cool temperate Japan Shinichi SawadaSaori ChidaNobutaka Nagasawa OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 99
The impact of changing irrigation practices in rice fields on frog populations of the Kanto Plain, central Japan Masahiro FujiokaSimon J. Lane OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 108
An experiment on ant predation in soil using a new bait trap method Taheshi YamaguchiMasami Hasegawa Corrigendum Pages: 109 - 109