1. Quantitative classification and carbon density of the forest vegetation in Lüliang Mountains of China

   • Xianping Zhang
   • Mengben Wang
   • Xiaoming Liang

   OriginalPaper 26 September 2008 Pages: 1 - 9

   

2. Effects of introduced ungulates on forest understory communities in northern Patagonia are modified by timing and severity of stand mortality

   • María Andrea Relva
   • Christian López Westerholm
   • Thomas Kitzberger

   OriginalPaper 02 November 2008 Pages: 11 - 22

   

3. Tree species richness and composition 15 years after strip clear-cutting in the Peruvian Amazon

   • Xanic J. Rondon
   • David L. Gorchov
   • Fernando Cornejo

   OriginalPaper 19 August 2008 Pages: 23 - 37

   

4. Changing relationships between tree growth and climate in Northwest China

   • Yongxiang Zhang
   • Martin Wilmking
   • Xiaohua Gou

   OriginalPaper 10 August 2008 Pages: 39 - 50

   

5. Does leaf-level nutrient-use efficiency explain Nothofagus-dominance of some tropical rain forests in New Caledonia?

   • Alex Chatain
   • Jennifer Read
   • Tanguy Jaffré

   OriginalPaper 10 August 2008 Pages: 51 - 66

   

6. Dendroecological study of a subalpine fir (Abies fargesii) forest in the Qinling Mountains, China

   • Haishan Dang
   • Mingxi Jiang
   • Quanfa Zhang

   OriginalPaper 02 September 2008 Pages: 67 - 75

   

7. A conceptual model of sprouting responses in relation to fire damage: an example with cork oak (Quercus suber L.) trees in Southern Portugal

   • Francisco Moreira
   • Filipe Catry
   • Joaquim Sande Silva

   OriginalPaper 10 August 2008 Pages: 77 - 85

   

8. Non-woody life-form contribution to vascular plant species richness in a tropical American forest

   • Reynaldo Linares-Palomino
   • Victor Cardona
   • Michael Kessler

   OriginalPaper Open access 26 September 2008 Pages: 87 - 99

   

9. Relationships between spatial configuration of tropical forest patches and woody plant diversity in northeastern Puerto Rico

   • Ileana T. Galanes
   • John R. Thomlinson

   OriginalPaper 05 September 2008 Pages: 101 - 113

   

10. Vascular diversity patterns of forest ecosystem before and after a 43-year interval under changing climate conditions in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve, northeastern China

    • Weiguo Sang
    • Fan Bai

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2008 Pages: 115 - 130

    

11. Gap-scale disturbance processes in secondary hardwood stands on the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee, USA

    • Justin L. Hart
    • Henri D. Grissino-Mayer

    OriginalPaper 23 August 2008 Pages: 131 - 146

    

12. Plurality of tree species responses to drought perturbation in Bornean tropical rain forest

    • D. M. Newbery
    • M. Lingenfelder

    OriginalPaper 23 November 2008 Pages: 147 - 167

    

13. Red spruce forest regeneration dynamics across a gradient from Acadian forest to old field in Greenwich, Prince Edward Island National Park, Canada

    • N. Cavallin
    • L. Vasseur

    OriginalPaper 18 September 2008 Pages: 169 - 180

    

14. Distance- and density-dependent seedling mortality caused by several diseases in eight tree species co-occurring in a temperate forest

    • Miki Yamazaki
    • Susumu Iwamoto
    • Kenji Seiwa

    OriginalPaper 05 November 2008 Pages: 181 - 196

    

15. Response of native Hawaiian woody species to lava-ignited wildfires in tropical forests and shrublands

    • Alison Ainsworth
    • J. Boone Kauffman

    OriginalPaper 12 November 2008 Pages: 197 - 209

    

16. Evaluating different harvest intensities over understory plant diversity and pine seedlings, in a Pinus pinaster Ait. natural stand of Spain

    • J. González-Alday
    • C. Martínez-Ruiz
    • F. Bravo

    OriginalPaper 22 August 2008 Pages: 211 - 220

    

17. Land-use history affects understorey plant species distributions in a large temperate-forest complex, Denmark

    • Jens-Christian Svenning
    • Karen H. Baktoft
    • Henrik Balslev

    OriginalPaper 04 December 2008 Pages: 221 - 234

    

18. Short-term responses of the understory to the removal of plant functional groups in the cold-temperate deciduous forest

    • Alexandre Lenière
    • Gilles Houle

    OriginalPaper 22 November 2008 Pages: 235 - 245

    

19. Host trait preferences and distribution of vascular epiphytes in a warm-temperate forest

    • Akiko Hirata
    • Takashi Kamijo
    • Satoshi Saito

    OriginalPaper 19 October 2008 Pages: 247 - 254

    

20. Seed bank composition and above-ground vegetation in response to grazing in sub-Mediterranean oak forests (NW Greece)

    • Evgenia Chaideftou
    • Costas A. Thanos
    • Panayotis Dimopoulos

    OriginalPaper 25 November 2008 Pages: 255 - 265

    

21. On the detection of dynamic responses in a drought-perturbed tropical rainforest in Borneo

    • M. Lingenfelder
    • D. M. Newbery

    OriginalPaper 27 January 2009 Pages: 267 - 290

    

22. Changes in tree and liana communities along a successional gradient in a tropical dry forest in south-eastern Brazil

    • Bruno G. Madeira
    • Mário M. Espírito-Santo
    • Mauricio Quesada

    OriginalPaper 24 January 2009 Pages: 291 - 304

    

23. Woody plant composition of forest layers: the importance of environmental conditions and spatial configuration

    • Maya Gonzalez
    • Marc Deconchat
    • Gérard Balent

    OriginalPaper 23 January 2009 Pages: 305 - 318

    

24. The importance of clonal growth to the recovery of Gaultheria procumbens L. (Ericaceae) after forest disturbance

    • F. M. Moola
    • L. Vasseur

    OriginalPaper 21 September 2008 Pages: 319 - 337

    

25. Species richness and resilience of forest communities: combined effects of short-term disturbance and long-term pollution

    • Marina R. Trubina

    OriginalPaper 12 December 2008 Pages: 339 - 350

    

26. Hurricane disturbance in a temperate deciduous forest: patch dynamics, tree mortality, and coarse woody detritus

    • R. T. Busing
    • R. D. White
    • P. S. White

    OriginalPaper 19 October 2008 Pages: 351 - 363