Seasonal change in the redox property of peat and its relation to vegetation in a system of floating mat and pond Akira Haraguchi OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 212
Roles of leaf water potential and soil-to-leaf hydraulic conductance in water use by understorey woody plants Atsushi IshidaYasuo YamamuraYoshimichi Hori OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 223
Germination ecology of coastal plants in relation to salt environment Shigeru MarikoNaoki KachiAkio Furukawa OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 233
Evolution of airborne infectious diseases according to changes in characteristics of the host population Masayuki KakehashiFumitaka Yoshinaga OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 243
Survivorship of a monocarpic bamboo grass,Sasa kurilensis, during the early regeneration process after mass flowering Akifumi Makita OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 254
Canopy photosynthetic production in a Japanese larch stand. I. Seasonal and vertical changes of leaf characteristics along the light gradient in a canopy Nahoko KurachiAkio HagiharaKazuo Hozumi OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 265
Enclosure experiment on the control mechanism of planktonic bacterial standing stock Kenji KatoSu-wan OhMasayuki Takahashi OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 276
Female mate preference and offspring fitness in the melon fly Eiiti Kasuya OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 281
Three-dimensional dispersion of drosophilid flies in a cool temperate forest of northern Japan Masanori J. Toda OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 295
Performance and phenology of alpine herbs along a snow-melting gradient Gaku Kudo OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 304
Factors affecting individual variation in resting site fidelity in the patellid limpet,Cellana toreuma (Reeve) Keiji Iwasaki OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 331
Dynamics and dry matter production of belowground woody organs ofPinus pumila trees growing on the Kiso mountain range in central Japan Takuya Kajimoto OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 339
Buried seed population in the herbaceous lomas on Loma Ancon in the coastal desert of central Peru Nobuhiko Ohga OriginalPaper Pages: 341 - 353
Carbon isotope ratio and photosynthetic activity of phytoplankton in the eutrophic Mikawa Bay, Japan Kazushi TakahashiEitaro WadaMitsuru Sakamoto OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 361
High SO2 resistance ofClethra barbinervis established in a smoke-polluted area of Ashio, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan Hiroaki IkedaToshiki NatoriHideo Iwaki OriginalPaper Pages: 363 - 370
Vegetation history since the last glacial period in the Mikata lowland, the Sea of Japan area, western Japan Hikaru TakaharaMasaji Takeoka OriginalPaper Pages: 371 - 386
Distribution pattern and age structure ofAbies firma saplings in a mature mixed forest ofA. firma andFagus japonica Naoki Agetsuma Short Communication Pages: 387 - 389
Detection of xylem cavitation in field-grown pine trees using the acoustic emission technique Takefumi IkedaMasayasu Ohtsu Short Communication Pages: 391 - 395