1. Can pregnant lizards adjust their offspring phenotypes to environmental conditions?

   • Richard Shine
   • Sharon J. Downes

   Article Pages: 1 - 8

2. Cost of parasitism and host immune defence in the sand martin Riparia riparia: a role for parent-offspring conflict?

   • T. Szép
   • A. P. Møller

   Article Pages: 9 - 15

3. Growth response of altitudinal ecotypes of mountain birch to temperature and fertilisation

   • Martin Weih
   • P. Staffan Karlsson

   Article Pages: 16 - 23

4. Growth and reproduction of Antarctic vascular plants in response to warming and UV radiation reductions in the field

   • T. A. Day
   • C. T. Ruhland
   • F. Xiong

   Article Pages: 24 - 35

5. Species-mediated soil moisture availability and patchy establishment of Pseudotsuga menziesii in chaparral

   • Jennifer A. Dunne
   • V. Thomas Parker

   Article Pages: 36 - 45

6. Control of macroalgal blooms at early developmental stages: Pilayella littoralis versus Enteromorpha spp.

   • Heike K. Lotze
   • Winfrid Schramm
   • Boris Worm

   Article Pages: 46 - 54

7. The influence of plant spacing on density-dependent versus frequency-dependent spore transmission of the anther smut Microbotryum violaceum

   • Erika Bucheli
   • Jacqui A. Shykoff

   Article Pages: 55 - 62

8. Effects of plant density and nutrient levels on fruit polymorphism in Atriplex sagittata

   • Bohumil Mandák
   • Petr Pyšek

   Article Pages: 63 - 72

9. Foraging for mates in the hyperparasitic wasp, Dendrocerus carpenteri: impact of unfavourable weather conditions and parasitoid age

   • Ulrich Schwörer
   • Wolfgang Völkl
   • Klaus H. Hoffmann

   Article Pages: 73 - 80

10. Feeding ecology of a large social antelope in the rainforest

    • Corinne Klaus-Hügi
    • Gregor Klaus
    • Barbara König

    Article Pages: 81 - 90

11. Contributions of C₃ and C₄ plants to higher trophic levels in an Amazonian savanna

    • William E. Magnusson
    • M. Carmozina de Araújo
    • Reynaldo L. Victoria

    Article Pages: 91 - 96

12. Ecosystem carbon exchange in two terrestrial ecosystem mesocosms under changing atmospheric CO₂ concentrations

    • Guanghui Lin
    • John Adams
    • Joseph A. Berry

    Article Pages: 97 - 108

13. Determinants of isotopic coupling of CO₂ and water vapour within a Quercus petraea forest canopy

    • K. G. Harwood
    • J. S. Gillon
    • H. Griffiths

    Article Pages: 109 - 119

14. Predators and mutualists influence the exclusion of aphid species from natural communities

    • C. B. Müller
    • H. C. J. Godfray

    Article Pages: 120 - 125

15. Persistent soil seed bank and standing vegetation at a high alpine site in the central Chilean Andes

    • Mary T. Kalin Arroyo
    • Lohengrin A. Cavieres
    • Ana María Humaña

    Article Pages: 126 - 132

16. Patterns and processes of nestedness in a Great Basin butterfly community

    • Erica Fleishman
    • Dennis D. Murphy

    Article Pages: 133 - 139

17. Mud-puddling behavior in tropical butterflies: in search of proteins or minerals?

    • Jan Beck
    • Eva Mühlenberg
    • Konrad Fiedler

    Article Pages: 140 - 148