1. The weed seed bank of soils in a landscape segment in southern Bavaria — I. Seed content, species composition and spatial variability

   • H. Albrecht
   • E.-M. Forster

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 10

2. Composition and structure of a chronosequence of young, mixed-species forests in southeastern Ohio, USA

   • Eric R. Norland
   • David M. Hix

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 30

3. Responses in stomatal conductance to elevated CO₂ in 12 grassland species that differ in growth form

   • Alan K. Knapp
   • Erik P. Hamerlynck
   • Clenton E. Owensby

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 41

4. Vegetative and edaphic characteristics on relic charcoal hearths in the Appalachian mountains

   • M. J. Young
   • J. E. Johnson
   • M. D. Abrams

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 50

5. Clonal organization of populations of Asarum europaeum and Maianthemum bifolium in contrasting woodland habitats

   • Bożenna Czarnecka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 62

6. Variability of plant species diversity in Swedish natural forest and its relation to atmospheric deposition

   • Oinghong Liu
   • Sven Bråkenhielm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 72

7. Growth patterns of the alien perennial Bunias orientalis L. (Brassicaceae) underlying its rising dominance in some native plant assemblages

   • T. Steinlein
   • H. Dietz
   • I. Ullmann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 82

8. Spatial autocorrelation and dispersal in mistletoes: field and simulation results

   • Jacob McC. Overton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 98

9. Community patterns on exposed cliffs in a Mediterranean calcareous mountain

   • Adrián Escudero

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 110