1. The effect of land-use on the local distribution of palm species in an Andean rain forest fragment in northwestern Ecuador

   • Jens-Christian Svenning

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1529 - 1537

2. On the interpretation and application of mean times to extinction

   • John A. Vucetich
   • Thomas A. Waite

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1539 - 1547

3. Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: the ground beetle communities of woody uncultivated habitats

   • Sandrine Petit
   • Michael B. Usher

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1549 - 1561

4. Vascular plant species count in a wet forest in the Chocó area on the Pacific coast of Colombia

   • Gloria Galeano
   • Stella Suárez
   • Henrik Balslev

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1563 - 1575

5. Amazonian biodiversity: assessing conservation priorities with taxonomic data

   • W. J. Kress
   • W. R. Heyer
   • S. H. Weitzman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1577 - 1587

6. Diversity of litter-dwelling beetles in the Ouachita Highlands of Arkansas, USA (Insecta: Coleoptera)

   • C. E. Carlton
   • H. W. Robison

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1589 - 1605

7. The decline of an endangered temperate ecosystem: the ruil (Nothofagus alessandrii) forest in central Chile

   • Ramiro O. Bustamante
   • Carmen Castor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1607 - 1626

8. Ants as bioindicators of habitat disturbance: validation of the functional group model for Australia's humid tropics

   • Joshua R. King
   • Alan N. Andersen
   • Asher D. Cutter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1627 - 1638

9. Comparisons of butterfly richness and abundance measures in prairie and barrens

   • Ann B. Swengel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1639 - 1659

10. Book reviews

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1661 - 1668