Effect of colony size on the competitive outcome of encrusting colonial organisms K. NandakumarM. Tanaka OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 230
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal infection on the growth and reproduction of the annual legumeKummerowia striata growing in a nutrient-poor alluvial soil Takayuki Nakatsubo OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 237
Food utilization of aphidophagous hoverfly larvae (Diptera: Syrphidae, Chamaemyiidae) on herbaceous plants in an urban habitat Masayuki MizunoTakao ItiokaYosiaki Itô OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 248
Seed germination and seedling survival in a colony of the common cormorant,Phalacrocorax carbo Akira Ishida OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 256
Individual variation in two host plants of the ladybird beetle,Epilachna pustulosa (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Naoyuki FujiyamaHaruo Katakura OriginalPaper Pages: 257 - 264
Distance effect of co-occurring tree species on pine wilt disease incidence inPinus densiflora seedlings inoculated withBursaphelenchus xylophilus Katsunori NakamuraKatsumi TogashiFumiki Takahashi OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 275
Stand dynamics during a 12-year period in a second-growth stand in a cool temperature forest in northern Japan Kanji NamikawaYukio IshikawaJunji Sano OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 287
Application of a rapid thin section method for observations on decomposing litter in mor humus form in a subalpine coniferous forest Xing-jun TianHiroshi TakedaTatsuo Ando OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 300
Mortality can produce predictable dynamics in chaotic populations J. L. Gonzalez-AndujarJ. N. Perry OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 303
Carbon input from plant to soil through root exudation inDigitaria adscendens andAmbrosia artemisiifolia Yukiko BekkuMakoto KimuraHiroshi Koizumi OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 312
Comparative ecophysiology ofChrysanthemum pacificum Nakai andsolidago altissima L. 1. whyS. altissima cannot be established on the seashore Hiroshi Yura OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 323
The role of weed invasion in controlling sand dune reactivation in abandoned fields in semi-arid Inner Mongolia, China Masayuki NemotoToshiya OhkuroBin Xu OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 336
Mature tree effect ofAcer mono on seedling mortality due to insect herbivory Kaoru MaetôKenji Fukuyama OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 343
Is tuna critically endangered? Extinction risk of a large and overexploited population Hiroyuki MatsudaTetsukazu YaharaYuji Uozumi OriginalPaper Pages: 345 - 356
Temperature effect on maintenance and growth respiration coefficients of young, field-grown hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) Stephen Adu-BreduTaketo YokotaAkio Hagihara Note and Comment Pages: 357 - 362
Comparative study of the mass loss rate of moss litter in boreal and subalpine forests in relation to temperature Takayuki NakatsuboMasaki UchidaKaneyuki Nakane Corrigendum Pages: 363 - 363