1. Ectomycorrhizal fungi and their enzymes in soils: is there enough evidence for their role as facultative soil saprotrophs?

   • Petr Baldrian

   Views and Comments 14 August 2009 Pages: 657 - 660

2. Saprotrophic capabilities as functional traits to study functional diversity and resilience of ectomycorrhizal community

   • Ken Cullings
   • Pierre-Emmanuel Courty

   Views and Comments 15 August 2009 Pages: 661 - 664

   

3. Impact of simulated herbivory on water relations of aspen (Populus tremuloides) seedlings: the role of new tissue in the hydraulic conductivity recovery cycle

   • David A. Gálvez
   • M. T. Tyree

   Physiological Ecology - Original Paper 15 July 2009 Pages: 665 - 671

   

4. Serum antioxidant levels in wild birds vary in relation to diet, season, life history strategy, and species

   • Alan A. Cohen
   • Kevin J. McGraw
   • W. Douglas Robinson

   Physiological Ecology - Original Paper 09 August 2009 Pages: 673 - 683

   

5. Geographical variation in the influence of density dependence and climate on the recruitment of Norwegian moose

   • Vidar Grøtan
   • Bernt-Erik Sæther
   • Steinar Engen

   Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology - Original Paper 06 August 2009 Pages: 685 - 695

   

6. Complex responses to invasive grass litter by ground arthropods in a Mediterranean scrub ecosystem

   • Elizabeth Mary Wolkovich
   • Douglas T. Bolger
   • David A. Holway

   Plant-Animal Interactions - Original Paper Open access 08 August 2009 Pages: 697 - 708

   

7. Can forest fragmentation disrupt a conditional mutualism? A case from central Amazon

   • Maria Luisa S. P. Jorge
   • Henry F. Howe

   Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology - Original Paper 25 July 2009 Pages: 709 - 718

   

8. Solar ultraviolet radiation alters alder and birch litter chemistry that in turn affects decomposers and soil respiration

   • Titta Kotilainen
   • Jari Haimi
   • Pedro Jose Aphalo

   Ecosystem ecology - Original Paper 14 July 2009 Pages: 719 - 728

   

9. Intra-annual variability of anatomical structure and δ¹³C values within tree rings of spruce and pine in alpine, temperate and boreal Europe

   • Eugene A. Vaganov
   • Ernst-Detlef Schulze
   • Christiane Roscher

   Ecosystem Ecology - Original Paper Open access 04 August 2009 Pages: 729 - 745

   

10. Herbivore impacts to the moss layer determine tundra ecosystem response to grazing and warming

    • Jemma L. Gornall
    • Sarah J. Woodin
    • Rene Van der Wal

    Ecosystem Ecology - Original Paper 23 August 2009 Pages: 747 - 758

    

11. Determinants and consequences of interspecific body size variation in tetraphyllidean tapeworms

    • Haseeb Sajjad Randhawa
    • Robert Poulin

    Community Ecology - Original Paper 10 July 2009 Pages: 759 - 769

    

12. Direct and indirect effects of understorey bamboo shape tree regeneration niches in a mixed temperate forest

    • Fernando D. Caccia
    • Enrique J. Chaneton
    • Thomas Kitzberger

    Community ecology - Original paper 10 July 2009 Pages: 771 - 780

    

13. Experimental evolution of resistance against a competing fungus in Drosophila melanogaster

    • Susanne Wölfle
    • Monika Trienens
    • Marko Rohlfs

    Community Ecology - Original Paper 14 July 2009 Pages: 781 - 790

    

14. Relative contributions of neutral and niche-based processes to the structure of a desert grassland grasshopper community

    • Andrew J. Rominger
    • Tom E. X. Miller
    • Scott L. Collins

    Community Ecology - Original Paper 23 July 2009 Pages: 791 - 800

    

15. Measuring the postfire resilience of a bird–vegetation system: a 28-year study in a Mediterranean oak woodland

    • Karine Jacquet
    • Roger Prodon

    Community Ecology - Original Paper 29 August 2009 Pages: 801 - 811

    

16. Reproduction of Amorpha canescens (Fabaceae) and diversity of its bee community in a fragmented landscape

    • Malinda W. Slagle
    • Stephen D. Hendrix

    Community Ecology - Original Paper 26 August 2009 Pages: 813 - 823

    

17. Do centennial tree-ring and stable isotope trends of Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr. indicate increasing water shortage in the Siberian north?

    • Olga Vladimirovna Sidorova
    • Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
    • Alexander V. Kirdyanov

    Global change ecology - Original Paper 10 July 2009 Pages: 825 - 835

    

18. Coexistence of behavioural types in an aquatic top predator: a response to resource limitation?

    • Alexander Kobler
    • Thomas Klefoth
    • Robert Arlinghaus

    Behavioral Ecology - Original Paper 16 July 2009 Pages: 837 - 847

    

19. Aromatic plants in nests of the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus protect chicks from bacteria

    • Adèle Mennerat
    • Pascal Mirleau
    • Philipp Heeb

    Terrestrial Vertebrate Ecology - Original Paper 26 July 2009 Pages: 849 - 855