1. Predation and habitat isolation influence the community composition-area relationship in dytiscid beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

   • B. Wohlfahrt
   • S. M. Vamosi

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 1 - 10

2. Absence of edge effect on small mammals in woodland-savannah remnants in Brazil

   • R. P. Di Napoli
   • N. C. Caceres

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 11 - 20

3. Competition depends more on the functional structure of plant community than on standing biomass

   • M. L. Navas
   • A. Fayolle

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 21 - 29

4. Scale effect and bimodality in the frequency distribution of species occupancy

   • C. Hui

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 30 - 35

5. Absence of distance decay in the similarity of plots at small extent in an urban brownfield

   • G. Bacaro
   • D. Rocchini
   • A. Chiarucci

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 36 - 44

6. Do climate, resource availability, and grazing pressure filter floristic composition and functioning in Alpine pastures?

   • M. Dainese
   • M. Scotton
   • J. Lepš

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 45 - 54

7. Prediction of specific leaf area distribution in plant communities along a soil resource gradient using trait trade-offs in a pattern-oriented modelling approach

   • A. Bédécarrats
   • F. Isselin-Nondedeu

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 55 - 63

8. How do locally infrequent species influence numerical classification? A simulation study

   • A. Lengyel
   • J. Csiky
   • Z. Botta-Dukát

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 64 - 71

9. Woody vegetation patch types affect herbaceous species richness and composition in a Mediterranean ecosystem

   • L. Blank
   • Y. Carmel

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 72 - 81

10. Effects of habitat isolation and predation pressure on an arboreal food-web

    • J. D. Herrmann
    • U. Kormann
    • M. H. Entling

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 82 - 87

11. How does plant species composition change from year to year? A case study from the herbaceous layer of a submediterranean oak woodland

    • E. Chaideftou
    • A. S. Kallimanis
    • P. Dimopoulos

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 88 - 96

12. The effects of habitat filtering on the phylogenetic structure of the urban flora of Brussels (Belgium)

    • C. Ricotta
    • D. Heathfield
    • S. Mazzoleni

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 97 - 101

13. Community ecology: diversity and dynamics over time

    • V. Rull

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 102 - 116

14. Effects of neighboring woody plants on target trees with emphasis on effects of understorey shrubs on overstorey physiology in forest communities: a mini-review

    • M. H. Li
    • Z. Du
    • J. P. Lei

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2012 Pages: 117 - 128