1. Sampling spatial and temporal variation in soil nitrogen availability

   • Michael L. Cain
   • Scott Subler
   • Marie-Josée Fortin

   Article Pages: 397 - 404

2. Individual variation in oviposition preference, and its interaction with larval performance in an insect predator

   • Hussein Sadeghi
   • Francis Gilbert

   Article Pages: 405 - 411

3. Experimental test of the effect of maternal hormones on larval quality of a coral reef fish

   • M. I. McCormick

   Article Pages: 412 - 422

4. Effect of water constraint on growth rate, activity and body temperature of yearling common lizard (Lacerta vivipara)

   • Pauline Lorenzon
   • Jean Clobert
   • Henry John-Alder

   Article Pages: 423 - 430

5. Sex differences in optimal incubation temperatures in a scincid lizard species

   • Melanie J. Elphick
   • Richard Shine

   Article Pages: 431 - 437

6. Food availability and nest predation influence life history traits in Audouin's gull, Larus audouinii

   • Daniel Oro
   • Roger Pradel
   • Jean-Dominique Lebreton

   Article Pages: 438 - 445

7. The consequences of clustering by Aphis fabae foundresses on spring migrant production

   • D. J. Hodgson
   • H. C. J. Godfray

   Article Pages: 446 - 452

8. Sexual differences in biomass and nutrient allocation of first-year Silene dioica plants

   • Åsa M. Hemborg
   • P. Staffan Karlsson

   Article Pages: 453 - 460

9. Are flowers physiological sinks or faucets? Costs and correlates of water use by flowers of Polemonium viscosum

   • Candace Galen
   • Rabecca A. Sherry
   • Amy B. Carroll

   Article Pages: 461 - 470

10. Host-plant specialization by a non-herbivorous amphipod: advantages for the amphipod and costs for the seaweed

    • Erik E. Sotka
    • Mark E. Hay
    • James D. Thomas

    Article Pages: 471 - 482

11. Ant-aphid mutualisms: the impact of honeydew production and honeydew sugar composition on ant preferences

    • Wolfgang Völkl
    • Joseph Woodring
    • Klaus H. Hoffmann

    Article Pages: 483 - 491

12. How recruitment, intraspecific interactions, and predation control species borders in a tidal estuary

    • George H. Leonard
    • Patrick J. Ewanchuk
    • Mark D. Bertness

    Article Pages: 492 - 502

13. Predicting diversity of juvenile neotropical fish communities: patch dynamics versus habitat state in floodplain creeks

    • Sylvie Mérigoux
    • Bernard Hugueny
    • Philippe Vauchel

    Article Pages: 503 - 516