1. Facilitation in multiple life-history stages: evidence for nucleated succession in coastal dunes

   • Steven J. Franks

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 11

2. Burial disturbance leads to facilitation among coastal dune plants

   • Steven J. Franks
   • Chris J. Peterson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 21

3. Canopy structure in a temperate old-growth evergreen forest analyzed by using aerial photographs

   • T. Fujita
   • A. Itaya
   • S. Yamamoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 29

4. The effect of environmental heterogeneity on clonal behaviour of Prunella vulgaris L.

   • Petr Macek
   • Jan Lepš

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 43

5. Temporal consistency in the spatial pattern of seed predation across a forest – old field edge

   • Scott J. Meiners
   • Kathleen LoGiudice

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 55

6. Relationship between field-layer vegetation and canopy openings in a Carpathian subalpine spruce forest

   • Jan Holeksa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 67

7. A comparative analysis of seed and cone characteristics and seed-dispersal strategies of three pines in the subsection Sabinianae

   • Matthew Johnson
   • Stephen B. Vander Wall
   • Mark Borchert

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 84

8. Soil seed banks in the semi-arid Prepuna of Bolivia

   • Ramiro Pablo López

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 92

9. Nitrogen addition does not reduce belowground competition in a salt marsh clonal plant community in Mississippi (USA)

   • J. Stephen Brewer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 106

10. Growth and biomass allocation of shrub and grass seedlings in response to predicted changes in precipitation seasonality

    • Steven R. Perkins
    • M. Keith Owens

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 120

11. Individual-based modelling of Pinus sylvestris invasion after grazing abandonment in the French Massif Central

    • Bernard Prévosto
    • David R.C. Hill
    • Patrick Coquillard

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 137

12. The functional morphology of juvenile plants tolerant of strong summer drought in shaded forest understories in southern Spain

    • Lawren Sack
    • Peter J. Grubb
    • Teodoro Marañón

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 163

13. Annual tree rings revealed by radiocarbon dating in seasonally flooded forest of the Mapire River, a tributary of the lower Orinoco River, Venezuela

    • Nelda Dezzeo
    • Martin Worbes
    • Rafael Herrera

    OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 175