1. Plant species richness and diversity of the serpentine areas on the Witwatersrand

   • R. A. Reddy
   • K. Balkwill
   • T. McLellan

   OriginalPaper 20 July 2008 Pages: 365 - 381

   

2. Temporal changes in species diversity and composition in abandoned fields in a trans-Himalayan landscape, Nepal

   • Chitra Bahadur Baniya
   • Torstein Solhøy
   • Ole R. Vetaas

   OriginalPaper 12 August 2008 Pages: 383 - 399

   

3. Role of desert annuals in nutrient flow in arid area of Northwestern China: a nutrient reservoir and provider

   • Bao-Ming Chen
   • Gen-Xuan Wang
   • Shao-Lin Peng

   OriginalPaper 05 November 2008 Pages: 401 - 409

   

4. The effects of fire frequency and grazing on tallgrass prairie productivity and plant composition are mediated through bud bank demography

   • Harmony J. Dalgleish
   • David C. Hartnett

   OriginalPaper 27 December 2008 Pages: 411 - 420

   

5. Do plant functional types based on leaf dry matter content allow characterizing native grass species and grasslands for herbage growth pattern?

   • Michel Duru
   • Raouda Al Haj Khaled
   • Pablo Cruz

   OriginalPaper 05 November 2008 Pages: 421 - 433

   

6. Clonal growth strategies in simultaneously persistent and expanding Trifolium repens patches

   • Line Johansen

   OriginalPaper 12 August 2008 Pages: 435 - 444

   

7. California native and exotic perennial grasses differ in their response to soil nitrogen, exotic annual grass density, and order of emergence

   • Joel K. Abraham
   • Jeffrey D. Corbin
   • Carla M. D’Antonio

   OriginalPaper 30 July 2008 Pages: 445 - 456

   

8. Do seed and microsite limitation interact with seed size in determining invasion patterns in flooding Pampa grasslands?

   • Lorena P. Herrera
   • Pedro Laterra

   OriginalPaper 09 December 2008 Pages: 457 - 469

   

9. Feral horses dung piles as potential invasion windows for alien plant species in natural grasslands

   • Alejandro Loydi
   • Sergio Martín Zalba

   OriginalPaper 01 August 2008 Pages: 471 - 480

   

10. Reproductive allocation of Carex flava reacts differently to competition and resources in a designed plant mixture of five species

    • Matthias Suter

    OriginalPaper 21 September 2008 Pages: 481 - 489

    

11. Factors affecting the establishment and growth of annual legumes in semi-arid mediterranean grasslands

    • Theodora P. Merou
    • Vasilios P. Papanastasis

    OriginalPaper 27 November 2008 Pages: 491 - 500

12. Are irrigation and grazing effects transferred, accumulated, or counteracted during plant recruitment?

    • Lorenzo Pérez-Camacho
    • Salvador Rebollo

    OriginalPaper 07 October 2008 Pages: 501 - 515

    

13. Extent and spatial patterns of grass bald land cover change (1948–2000), Oregon Coast Range, USA

    • Harold S. J. Zald

    OriginalPaper 02 October 2008 Pages: 517 - 529

    

14. Grass (Poaceae) richness patterns across China’s nature reserves

    • Qing Liu
    • Xuejun Ge
    • J. Travis Columbus

    OriginalPaper 15 August 2008 Pages: 531 - 551

    

15. Interacting effects of grass height and herbivores on the establishment of an encroaching savanna shrub

    • Nicole Hagenah
    • Helena Munkert
    • Han Olff

    OriginalPaper 30 July 2008 Pages: 553 - 566

    

16. Effects of competition on root–shoot allocation in Plantago lanceolata L.: adaptive plasticity or ontogenetic drift?

    • Frank Berendse
    • Frans Möller

    OriginalPaper Open access 28 August 2008 Pages: 567 - 573

    

17. Rock-colonizing plants: abundance of the endemic cactus Mammillaria fraileana related to rock type in the southern Sonoran Desert

    • Blanca R. Lopez
    • Yoav Bashan
    • Gustavo De la Cruz-Agüero

    OriginalPaper 02 December 2008 Pages: 575 - 588

    

18. Ecophysiological responses of nine floodplain meadow species to changing hydrological conditions

    • Vincent Jung
    • Lucien Hoffmann
    • Serge Muller

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2008 Pages: 589 - 598

    

19. Tolerance of a perennial herb, Pimpinella saxifraga, to simulated flower herbivory and grazing: immediate repair of injury or postponed reproduction?

    • A-P. Huhta
    • P. Rautio
    • J. Tuomi

    OriginalPaper 14 November 2008 Pages: 599 - 609

    

20. Differential herbivory tolerance of dominant and subordinate plant species along gradients of nutrient availability and competition

    • Pejman Tahmasebi Kohyani
    • B. Bossuyt
    • M. Hoffmann

    OriginalPaper 16 October 2008 Pages: 611 - 619

    

21. Responses of clonal architecture to experimental defoliation: a comparative study between ten grassland species

    • Marie-Lise Benot
    • Cendrine Mony
    • Anne Bonis

    OriginalPaper 28 November 2008 Pages: 621 - 630

    

22. Diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa Lam.) seedling emergence and establishment in a Colorado grassland

    • Paul J. Meiman
    • Edward F. Redente
    • Mark W. Paschke

    OriginalPaper 28 January 2009 Pages: 631 - 638

    

23. Biodiversity and tallgrass prairie decomposition: the relative importance of species identity, evenness, richness, and micro-topography

    • Timothy L. Dickson
    • Brian J. Wilsey

    OriginalPaper 13 January 2009 Pages: 639 - 649

    

24. Herbivory and local genetic differentiation in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae)

    • Asghar Mosleh Arany
    • Tom J. de Jong
    • Ed van der Meijden

    OriginalPaper Open access 02 November 2008 Pages: 651 - 659

    

25. The effect of nutrient supply and light intensity on tannins and mycorrhizal colonisation in Dutch heathland ecosystems

    • Jantineke D. Hofland-Zijlstra
    • Frank Berendse

    OriginalPaper Open access 02 December 2008 Pages: 661 - 675

    

26. Spatial and temporal dynamics of floating and drift-line seeds at a tidal freshwater marsh on the Potomac River, USA

    • K. N. Hopfensperger
    • A. H. Baldwin

    OriginalPaper 29 January 2009 Pages: 677 - 686

    

27. Estimating plant competition coefficients and predicting community dynamics from non-destructive pin-point data: a case study with Calluna vulgaris and Deschampsia flexuosa

    • Christian Damgaard
    • Torben Riis-Nielsen
    • Inger Kappel Schmidt

    OriginalPaper 16 October 2008 Pages: 687 - 697

    

28. Disturbance by mowing affects clonal diversity: the genetic structure of Ranunculus ficaria (Ranunculuaceae) in meadows and forests

    • Christoph Reisch
    • Sebastian Scheitler

    OriginalPaper 08 July 2008 Pages: 699 - 707

    

29. Soil amendment effects on the exotic annual grass Bromus tectorum L. and facilitation of its growth by the native perennial grass Hilaria jamesii (Torr.) Benth

    • Jayne Belnap
    • Susan K. Sherrod

    OriginalPaper 29 July 2008 Pages: 709 - 721

    

30. Effects of fire on the vegetation of a lowland heathland in North-western Italy

    • Luca Borghesio

    OriginalPaper 08 July 2008 Pages: 723 - 731