1. Local versus regional processes and the control of community structure

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   • J. Kolasa
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   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 1 - 7

2. Regional-scale vegetation heterogeneity in northeastern Patagonia: Environmental and spatial components

   • A. J. Bisigato
   • L. A. Hardtke
   • R. G. Palacio

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 8 - 16

3. Can the physiological tolerance hypothesis explain herb richness patterns along an elevational gradient? A trait-based analysis

   • Zihan Jiang
   • Keming Ma
   • M. Anand

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 17 - 23

4. Minimal box size for fractal dimension estimation

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   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 24 - 27

5. Traits in Lepidoptera assemblages are differently influenced by local and landscape scale factors in farmland habitat islands

   • F. Samu
   • C. Szabóky
   • M. Tóth

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 28 - 39

6. Local conditions vs regional context: variation in composition of bird communities along the Middle Paraná River, an extensive river-floodplain system of South America

   • R. E. Lorenzón
   • A. H. Beltzer
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   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 40 - 47

7. Trophic models and short-term dynamic simulations for benthic-pelagic communities at Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve (Mexican Caribbean): a conservation case

   • F. A. Rodríguez-Zaragoza
   • M. Ortiz
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   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 48 - 60

8. Patterns of plant species richness and composition in deciduous oak forests in relation to environmental drivers

   • M. Slezák
   • I. Axmanová

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 61 - 70

9. BayFesian inference and model choice for Holling’s disc equation: a case study on an insect predator-prey system

   • N. E. Papanikolaou
   • H. Williams
   • T. Kypraios

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 71 - 78

10. Abandonment of crop lands leads to different recovery patterns for ant and plant communities in Eastern Europe

    • E. Német
    • E. Ruprecht
    • B. Markó

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 79 - 87

11. Functional turnover and community assemblage during tropical forest succession

    • V. Marcilio-Silva
    • V. D. Pillar
    • M. C. M. Marques

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 88 - 97

12. Combined in situ experimentation and modelling approaches to disentangle processes involved in the earliest stage of community assembly

    • S. Fanfard
    • F. Charles
    • J. M. Guarini

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 98 - 106

13. How do diversity and functional nestedness of bird communities respond to changes in the landscape caused by eucalyptus plantations?

    • L. I. Jacoboski
    • V. J. Debastiani
    • S. M. Hartz

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 107 - 113

14. Delineation of the Pannonian vegetation region

    • G. Fekete
    • G. Király
    • Zs. Molnár

    Points of View Open access 30 December 2016 Pages: 114 - 124