1. Agriculture intensification and forest fragmentation in the St. Lawrence valley, Québec, Canada

   • Luc Bélanger
   • Marcelle Grenier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 495 - 507

2. Boundary effects on dispersal between habitat patches by forest birds (Parus major, P. caeruleus)

   • Erik Matthysen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 509 - 515

3. The influence of management history and habitat on plant species richness in a rural hemiboreal landscape, Sweden

   • Sara A.O. Cousins
   • Ove Eriksson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 517 - 529

4. Landscape diversity in a conservation area and commercial and communal rangeland in Xeric Succulent Thicket, South Africa

   • C. Fabricius
   • A.R. Palmer
   • M. Burger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 531 - 537

5. Landscape-scale controls over 20^th century fire occurrence in two large Rocky Mountain (USA) wilderness areas

   • Matthew G. Rollins
   • Penelope Morgan
   • Thomas Swetnam

   OriginalPaper Pages: 539 - 557

6. Scale dependence of tree abundance and richness in a tropical rain forest, Malaysia

   • Fangliang He
   • James V. LaFrankie
   • Bo Song

   OriginalPaper Pages: 559 - 568

7. The influence of research scale on bald eagle habitat selection along the lower Hudson River, New York (USA)

   • Craig M. Thompson
   • Kevin McGarigal

   OriginalPaper Pages: 569 - 586

8. Microphytic crusts, shrub patches and water harvesting in the Negev Desert: the Shikim system

   • David J. Eldridge
   • Eli Zaady
   • Moshe Shachak

   OriginalPaper Pages: 587 - 597