1. Modern pollen assemblages of the forest communities and their relationships with vegetation and climate in northern China

   • Yuecong Li
   • Qinghai Xu
   • Xiaolan Yang

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2009 Pages: 643 - 659

2. Significance of pollen and spores distribution to the barrier function of the Longitudinal Range-Gorge Region, Southwest China

   • Tao Pan
   • Shaohong Wu
   • Yue Dou

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2009 Pages: 660 - 670

3. Evidence for marine transgression between 7500–5400BC at the Luotuodun Site in Yixing, Jiangsu Province

   • Lan Li
   • Cheng Zhu
   • Chao Fan

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2009 Pages: 671 - 680

4. Palaeofloods recorded by slackwater deposits on the Qishuihe River in the Middle Yellow River

   • Xiaochun Zha
   • Chunchang Huang
   • Jiangli Pang

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2009 Pages: 681 - 690

5. Dynamic analysis on carbon accumulation of a plantation in Qianyanzhou based on tree ring data

   • Quanqin Shao
   • Lin Huang
   • Zhuoqi Chen

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2009 Pages: 691 - 706

6. Soil moisture of different vegetation types on the Loess Plateau

   • Zhiqiang Wang
   • Baoyuan Liu
   • Yan Zhang

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2009 Pages: 707 - 718

7. Temporal and spatial differences and imbalance of China’s urbanization development during 1950–2006

   • Chuanglin Fang
   • Xiaoli Liu

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2009 Pages: 719 - 732

8. Economic polarized trends, function and expanded boundaries of the Yangtze Delta Region

   • Xuejun Duan
   • Xiaogan Yu
   • Josef Nipper

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2009 Pages: 733 - 749

9. Wet-dry changes in the borderland of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia from 1208 to 1369 based on historical records

   • Junhu Dai
   • Quansheng Ge
   • Haiting Cui

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2009 Pages: 750 - 764