1. Temporal dynamics and resilience of fine litterfall in relation to typhoon disturbances over 14 years in an old-growth lucidophyllous forest in southwestern Japan

   • Tamotsu Sato
   • Yohsuke Kominami
   • Haruto Nomiya

   OriginalPaper 19 November 2009 Pages: 187 - 198

   

2. The seed banks of English lowland calcareous grasslands along a restoration chronosequence

   • Kate C. Fagan
   • Richard F. Pywell
   • Rob H. Marrs

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2009 Pages: 199 - 211

   

3. Nutrient transfer by leaf litterfall during a sugar maple decline episode at Lake Clair watershed, Québec, Canada

   • Louis Duchesne
   • Rock Ouimet
   • Daniel Houle

   OriginalPaper 19 November 2009 Pages: 213 - 221

   

4. Does release from natural belowground enemies help explain the invasiveness of Lygodium microphyllum? A cross-continental comparison

   • John C. Volin
   • Eric L. Kruger
   • Kaoru Kitajima

   OriginalPaper 21 November 2009 Pages: 223 - 234

   

5. Can horse riding induce the introduction and establishment of alien plant species through endozoochory and gap creation?

   • Anne Törn
   • Pirkko Siikamäki
   • Anne Tolvanen

   OriginalPaper 21 November 2009 Pages: 235 - 244

   

6. Effects of clearance and fragmentation on forest compositional change and recovery after 200 years in western New York

   • Yi-Chen Wang
   • Chris P. S. Larsen
   • Barry J. Kronenfeld

   OriginalPaper 24 November 2009 Pages: 245 - 258

   

7. Heterogeneity of the inland water–land palm ecotones (morichals) in the Orinoco lowlands, South America

   • José San-José
   • Rubén Montes
   • Nathaly Matute

   OriginalPaper 29 November 2009 Pages: 259 - 269

   

8. Influence of slope orientation on sex ratio and size distribution in a dioecious plant Bursera fagaroides var. purpusii (Brandeg.) McVaugh and Rzed. (Burseraceae)

   • Raúl Ortiz-Pulido
   • Numa P. Pavón

   OriginalPaper 11 December 2009 Pages: 271 - 277

9. Smouldering fire-induced changes in a Mediterranean soil (SE Spain): effects on germination, survival and morphological traits of 3-year-old Pinus pinaster Ait.

   • J. Madrigal
   • C. Hernando
   • P. Pérez-Gorostiaga

   OriginalPaper 10 December 2009 Pages: 279 - 292

   

10. Soil nutrients are not responsible for arrested succession in disturbed coastal dune forest

    • L. J. Boyes
    • M. E. Griffiths
    • M. J. Lawes

    OriginalPaper 09 December 2009 Pages: 293 - 305

    

11. Gap regeneration and replacement patterns in an old-growth Fagus–Abies forest of Bosnia–Herzegovina

    • Thomas A. Nagel
    • Miroslav Svoboda
    • Jurij Diaci

    OriginalPaper 11 December 2009 Pages: 307 - 318

    

12. Bamboo, fire and flood: consequences of disturbance for the vegetative growth of a clumping, clonal plant

    • Donald C. Franklin
    • Lynda D. Prior
    • Clive R. McMahon

    OriginalPaper 13 December 2009 Pages: 319 - 332

    

13. The shifting balance of facilitation and competition affects the outcome of intra- and interspecific interactions over the life history of California grassland annuals

    • Elizabeth A. Leger
    • Erin K. Espeland

    OriginalPaper 25 December 2009 Pages: 333 - 345

    

14. Competitive and allelopathic effects of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) on American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius)

    • Kerry L. Wixted
    • James B. McGraw

    OriginalPaper 24 December 2009 Pages: 347 - 357

    

15. Eucalyptus recruitment in degraded woodlands: no benefit from elevated soil fertility

    • Alison K. Skinner
    • Ian D. Lunt
    • Sandra Lavorel

    OriginalPaper 25 December 2009 Pages: 359 - 370