Volume 22, Issue 3

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May 2007

Special Feature on Sustainability and Biodiversity of Forest Ecosystems: An Interdisciplinary Approach

20 articles in this issue

An interdisciplinary approach to sustainability and biodiversity of forest ecosystems: an introduction
Tohru Nakashizuka
Special Feature 12 April 2007 Pages: 359 - 360
Legacies of the past in the present-day forest biodiversity: a review of past land-use effects on forest plant species composition and diversity
Martin Hermy
Kris Verheyen
Special Feature 20 March 2007 Pages: 361 - 371
Degradation of longicorn beetle (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Disteniidae) fauna caused by conversion from broad-leaved to man-made conifer stands of Cryptomeria japonica (Taxodiaceae) in central Japan
Shun’ichi Makino
Hideaki Goto
Isamu Okochi
Special Feature 03 April 2007 Pages: 372 - 381
Genetic and reproductive consequences of forest fragmentation for populations of Magnolia obovata
Yuji Isagi
Ryunosuke Tateno
Mitsue Shibata
Special Feature 16 March 2007 Pages: 382 - 389
Ecological function losses caused by monotonous land use induce crop raiding by wildlife on the island of Yakushima, southern Japan
Naoki Agetsuma
Special Feature 28 March 2007 Pages: 390 - 402
Degradation and loss of forest land and land-use changes in Sarawak, East Malaysia: a study of native land use by the Iban
Masahiro Ichikawa
Special Feature 11 April 2007 Pages: 403 - 413
Sustainable use of tropical forests by reduced-impact logging in Deramakot Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia
Peter Lagan
Sam Mannan
Hisashi Matsubayashi
Special Feature 17 April 2007 Pages: 414 - 421
When is it optimal to exhaust a resource in a finite time?
Ken-Ichi Akao
Y. Hossein Farzin
Special Feature 03 April 2007 Pages: 422 - 430
Bio-economic resource management under threats of environmental catastrophes
Yacov Tsur
Amos Zemel
Special Feature 28 March 2007 Pages: 431 - 438
Comparative study of additive basal area of conifers in forest ecosystems along elevational gradients
Shin-ichiro Aiba
Goro Hanya
Kanehiro Kitayama
Miyadi Award 16 March 2007 Pages: 439 - 450
Predator and parasitoid attacking ant-attended aphids: effects of predator presence and attending ant species on emerging parasitoid numbers
Shuji Kaneko
Original Article 23 August 2006 Pages: 451 - 458
Biases in the estimation of spatial egg aggregation and association based on emergence data
Kazuo H. Takahashi
Original Article 30 August 2006 Pages: 459 - 466
Seed germination and seedling growth in the arrow bamboo Fargesia qinlingensis
Wei Wang
Scott B. Franklin
Margaret C. Cirtain
Original Article 15 September 2006 Pages: 467 - 474
Effect of elevated CO₂ levels on leaf starch, nitrogen and photosynthesis of plants growing at three natural CO₂ springs in Japan
Yusuke Onoda
Tadaki Hirose
Kouki Hikosaka
Original Article 13 September 2006 Pages: 475 - 484
Vertical distribution and seasonal pattern of fine-root dynamics in a cool–temperate forest in northern Japan: implication of the understory vegetation, Sasa dwarf bamboo
Karibu Fukuzawa
Hideaki Shibata
Kaichiro Sasa
Original Article 30 August 2006 Pages: 485 - 495
Flowering phenology and survival of two annual plants Impatiens noli-tangere and Persicaria thunbergii co-occurring in streamside environments
Mayuko Suzuki
Yuhdai Kaya
Masahito T. Kimura
Original Article 15 September 2006 Pages: 496 - 501
Are clonal plants more tolerant to grazing than co-occurring non-clonal plants in inland dunes?
Hai-Dong Liu
Fei-Hai Yu
Ming Dong
Original Article 31 January 2007 Pages: 502 - 506
Phenological responses of plants to climate change in an urban environment
Zhongkui Luo
Osbert J. Sun
Jingyun Zheng
Original Article 27 September 2006 Pages: 507 - 514
Model simulation of soil carbon dynamics with stand development in Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) plantations
Katsuyuki Shuto
Kaneyuki Nakane
Original Article 30 January 2007 Pages: 515 - 526
Quantitative analysis of a stand of Pinus densiflora undergoing succession to Quercus mongolica ssp. crispula: II. Growth and population dynamics of Q. mongolica ssp. crispula under the P. densiflora canopy
Jun Kato
Ichiroku Hayashi
Original Article 31 October 2006 Pages: 527 - 533

Volume 22, Issue 3

An interdisciplinary approach to sustainability and biodiversity of forest ecosystems: an introduction

Legacies of the past in the present-day forest biodiversity: a review of past land-use effects on forest plant species composition and diversity

Degradation of longicorn beetle (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Disteniidae) fauna caused by conversion from broad-leaved to man-made conifer stands of Cryptomeria japonica (Taxodiaceae) in central Japan

Genetic and reproductive consequences of forest fragmentation for populations of Magnolia obovata

Ecological function losses caused by monotonous land use induce crop raiding by wildlife on the island of Yakushima, southern Japan

Degradation and loss of forest land and land-use changes in Sarawak, East Malaysia: a study of native land use by the Iban

Sustainable use of tropical forests by reduced-impact logging in Deramakot Forest Reserve, Sabah, Malaysia

When is it optimal to exhaust a resource in a finite time?

Bio-economic resource management under threats of environmental catastrophes

Comparative study of additive basal area of conifers in forest ecosystems along elevational gradients

Predator and parasitoid attacking ant-attended aphids: effects of predator presence and attending ant species on emerging parasitoid numbers

Biases in the estimation of spatial egg aggregation and association based on emergence data

Seed germination and seedling growth in the arrow bamboo Fargesia qinlingensis

Effect of elevated CO₂ levels on leaf starch, nitrogen and photosynthesis of plants growing at three natural CO₂ springs in Japan

Vertical distribution and seasonal pattern of fine-root dynamics in a cool–temperate forest in northern Japan: implication of the understory vegetation, Sasa dwarf bamboo

Flowering phenology and survival of two annual plants Impatiens noli-tangere and Persicaria thunbergii co-occurring in streamside environments

Are clonal plants more tolerant to grazing than co-occurring non-clonal plants in inland dunes?

Phenological responses of plants to climate change in an urban environment

Model simulation of soil carbon dynamics with stand development in Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) plantations

Quantitative analysis of a stand of Pinus densiflora undergoing succession to Quercus mongolica ssp. crispula: II. Growth and population dynamics of Q. mongolica ssp. crispula under the P. densiflora canopy

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