1. Productivity of Agave deserti: measurement by dry weight and monthly prediction using physiological responses to environmental parameters

   • Park S. Nobel

   Original Papers Pages: 1 - 7

2. Rodent population cycles: life history adjustments to age-specific dispersal strategies and intrinsic time lags

   • Douglas W. Morris

   Original Papers Pages: 8 - 13

3. Water relations of Quercus palustris: field measurements on an experimentally flooded stand

   • R. Alan Black

   Original Papers Pages: 14 - 20

4. Root growth response to defoliation in two Agropyron bunchgrasses: field observations with an improved root periscope

   • J. H. Richards

   Original Papers Pages: 21 - 25

5. Aspects of feeding, including estimates of gut residence time, in three mytilid species (Bivalvia, Mollusca) at two contrasting sites in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa

   • B. L. Bayne
   • D. W. Klumpp
   • K. R. Clarke

   Original Papers Pages: 26 - 33

6. Density-dependent effects in a parasitic nematode, Elaphostrongylus rangiferi, in the snnail intermediate host

   • Arne Skorping

   Original Papers Pages: 34 - 40

7. pH-preferences and habitat selection in carabid beetles

   • F. Paje
   • D. Mossakowski

   Original Papers Pages: 41 - 46

8. Ovule survivorship, brood size, life history, breeding systems,and reproductive success in plants

   • Delbert Wiens

   Original Papers Pages: 47 - 53

9. A genetic explanation for ten-year cycles of grouse

   • R. E. Page
   • A. T. Bergerud

   Original Papers Pages: 54 - 60

10. Determinants of fruit and seed set in Pavonia dasypetala (Malvaceae)

    • Lucinda A. McDade
    • Priya Davidar

    Original Papers Pages: 61 - 67

11. Seasonal variation in crassulacean acid metabolism in Dudleya blochmanae (Crassulaceae)

    • J. A. Teeri

    Original Papers Pages: 68 - 73

12. A genetic analysis of the photosynthetic properties of populations of Danthonia spicata that have different growth responses to light level

    • Samuel M. Scheiner
    • Jessica Gurevitch
    • James A. Teeri

    Original Papers Pages: 74 - 77

13. Lycaenids parasitizing symbiotic plant-ant partnerships

    • Ulrich Maschwitz
    • Martin Schroth
    • Tho Yow Pong

    Original Papers Pages: 78 - 80

14. Measuring the cost of reproduction

    • Vasso Koufopanou
    • Graham Bell

    Original Papers Pages: 81 - 86

15. Population structure of Adenostoma fasciculatum in mature stands of chamise chaparral in the southern Sierra Nevada, California

    • T. J. Stohlgren
    • D. J. Parsons
    • P. W. Rundel

    Original Papers Pages: 87 - 91

16. The spatial distribution of fungi on decomposing alder leaves in a freshwater stream

    • Anne-Carole Chamier
    • Peter A. Dixon
    • Simon A. Archer

    Original Papers Pages: 92 - 103

17. The pollination biology and breeding system of Monarda fistulosa (Labiatae)

    • Robert William Cruden
    • Luise Hermanutz
    • Jane Shuttleworth

    Original Papers Pages: 104 - 110

18. Interaction of vascular plants and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across a soil moisture-nutrient gradient

    • R. C. Anderson
    • A. E. Liberta
    • L. A. Dickman

    Original Papers Pages: 111 - 117

19. The growth and decline of a population of the spruce aphid Elatobium abietinum during a three year study, and the changing pattern of fecundity, recruitment and alary polymorphism in a Northern Ireland Forest

    • Keith Day

    Original Papers Pages: 118 - 124

20. Thermal influences on the habitat preference and the diurnal activity in three European Rana species

    • Ulrich Sinsch

    Original Papers Pages: 125 - 131

21. Leaf mines: their effect on leaf longevity

    • I. M. Pritchard
    • R. James

    Original Papers Pages: 132 - 139

22. Leaf fall as a source of leaf miner mortality

    • I. M. Pritchard
    • R. James

    Short Communications Pages: 140 - 141

23. Effects of feeding by mealybugs (Planococcus citri, homoptera: pseudococcidae) on the growth of Colliguaya odorifera seedlings

    • James N. Mills

    Short Communications Pages: 142 - 144