1. Response of Japanese beech (Fagus japonica Maxim.) sprouts to canopy gaps

   • Tatsuhiro Ohkubo
   • Takeo Tanimoto
   • Rob Peters

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 8

2. Topo-edaphic, floristic and physiognomic gradients of woody plants in a semi-arid African savanna woodland

   • E. T. F. Witkowski
   • T. G. O'Connor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 23

3. Structure and dynamics of subalpine forests in the Wang Lang Natural Reserve, Sichuan, China

   • Alan H. Taylor
   • Qin Zisheng
   • Liu Jie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 38

4. Quantitative analysis of acorn transportation by rodents using magnetic locator

   • Shigeo Iida

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 43

5. Decline of Potentillo albae-Quercetum Libb. 1933 phytocoenoses in Poland

   • Janina Jakubowska-Gabara

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 59

6. Survival curves and longevity of the leaves of Alnus japonica var. arguta in Kushiro Marsh

   • Fusayuki Kanda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 66

7. Stable isotopic survey of the role of macrophytes in the carbon flow of aquatic foodwebs

   • R. L. France

   Short Note Pages: 67 - 72

8. Trends in structural compositional attributes of dune-interdune vegetation and their edaphic relations in the Indian desert

   • Suresh Kumar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 93

9. Testing association between species abundance and a continuous variable with Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistics

   • Manoel A. W. Pacheco
   • Andrew Henderson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 99

10. Ecological implications of seed characteristics of the native Prosopis cineraria and the alien P. juliflora

    • Reetu Sharma
    • K. M. M. Dakshini

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 105

11. Landscape patterns and plant species diversity of forest reserves in the Kanto region, Japan

    • Katsue Fukamachi
    • Shigeo Iida
    • Tohru Nakashizuka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 114