1. Serious Research with Great Fun: the Strange Case of Jan Šuspa Lepš (and Other Plant Ecologists)

   • Francesco de Bello
   • Jitka Klimešová
   • Petr Šmilauer

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 297 - 306

   

2. Community Completeness: Linking Local and Dark Diversity within the Species Pool Concept

   • Meelis Pärtel
   • Robert Szava-Kovats
   • Martin Zobel

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 307 - 317

   

3. Non-Native Plants Disrupt Dual Promotion of Native Alpha and Beta Diversity

   • Tadashi Fukami
   • Peter J. Bellingham
   • Lawrence R. Walker

   OriginalPaper Open access 27 September 2013 Pages: 319 - 333

   

4. Consistent Effects of Biodiversity on Ecosystem Functioning Under Varying Density and Evenness

   • Martin Schmitz
   • Dan F. B. Flynn
   • Bernhard Schmid

   OriginalPaper 01 October 2013 Pages: 335 - 353

   

5. Intra-Specific Leaf Trait Variation: Management and Fertility Matter More than the Climate at Continental Scales

   • Robin J. Pakeman

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 355 - 371

   

6. Functional Traits in a Species-Rich Grassland and a Short-Term Change in Management: Is There a Competition-Colonization Trade-Off?

   • Jitka Klimešová
   • Ondřej Mudrák
   • Leoš Klimeš

   OriginalPaper 28 September 2013 Pages: 373 - 391

   

7. Questioning the Reliability of the Point Intercept Method for Assessing Community Functional Structure in Low-Productive and Highly Diverse Mediterranean Grasslands

   • Karim Barkaoui
   • Maud Bernard-Verdier
   • Marie-Laure Navas

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 393 - 414

   

8. Experimental Seed Predator Removal Reveals Shifting Importance of Predation and Dispersal Limitation in Early Life History Stages of Tropical Forest Trees

   • Rob Klinger
   • Marcel Rejmánek

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2013 Pages: 415 - 435