1. Biodiversity and trace element content of epiphytic bryophytes in urban and extraurban sites of southern Italy

   • Simonetta Giordano
   • Sergio Sorbo
   • Rosa Castaldo Cobianchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 14

2. Causes of spatial patterns of dead trees in forest fragments in Illinois

   • Y. Lin
   • Melissa L. Hulting
   • Carol K. Augspurger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 27

3. The effect of timing and amount of leaf removal on survival, growth and reproduction in the perennial herb Sanicula europaea L.

   • Christel Gustafsson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 34

4. Seedling herbivory and the influence of plant species richness in seedling neighbourhoods

   • M.E. Hanley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 41

5. Sexual vs. vegetative reproduction in relation to forest dynamics in the understorey shrub, Hydrangea paniculata (Saxifragaceae)

   • Hiroshi Kanno
   • Kenji Seiwa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 53

6. Migration of an annual myrmecochore: a four year experiment with Melampyrum pratense L.

   • Thilo Heinken

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 72

7. The influence of light availability on competition between Phalaris arundinacea and a native wetland sedge

   • Laura G. Perry
   • Susan M. Galatowitsch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 81

8. Herbaceous plant richness and vegetation cover in Mediterranean grasslands and shrublands

   • Miguel A. Casado
   • Isabel Castro
   • Francisco D. Pineda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 91

9. The influence of savanna trees on nutrient, water and light availability and the understorey vegetation

   • Fulco Ludwig
   • Hans de Kroon
   • Herbert H.T. Prins

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 105

10. Plant species variation across path ecotones in a variety of common vegetation types

    • Pieter Roovers
    • Sara Baeten
    • Martin Hermy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 119

11. Effects of biological soil crusts on seed germination of four endangered herbs in a xeric Florida shrubland during drought

    • Christine V. Hawkes

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 134

12. Asymmetric competition as a natural outcome of neighbour interactions among plants: results from the field-of-neighbourhood modelling approach

    • Silke Bauer
    • Tomasz Wyszomirski
    • Volker Grimm

    OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 145

13. Book review: Ozone depletion: not a catastrophe but a serious problem?

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 153