1. Effects of ambient UV-B radiation on soybean crops: Impact on leaf herbivory by Anticarsia gemmatalis

   • J.A. Zavala
   • A.L. Scopel
   • C.L. Ballaré

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 130

2. Post-agriculture versus post-hurricane succession in southeastern Nicaraguan rain forest

   • D.H. Boucher
   • J.H. Vandermeer
   • N. Zamora

   OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 137

3. Structure and spatial patterns of trees in old-growth northern hardwood and mixed forests of northern Maine

   • Unna Chokkalingam
   • Alan White

   OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 160

4. Local and regional differences in abundance of co-dominant grasses in the shortgrass steppe: a modeling analysis of potential causes

   • Martin R. Aguiar
   • William K. Lauenroth

   OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 171

5. Contrasting shade avoidance responses in two perennial grasses: a field investigation in simulated sparse and dense canopies

   • T.A. Monaco
   • D.D. Briske

   OriginalPaper Pages: 173 - 182

6. Shade tolerance and regeneration of some tree species of a tropical rain forest in Western Kenya

   • David Kiama
   • James Kiyiapi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 191

7. Application of randomization methods to study the association of Trichocereus pasacana (Cactaceae) with potential nurse plants

   • M.L. de Viana
   • S. Sühring
   • B.F.J. Manly

   OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 197

8. Effect of soil nutrient heterogeneity on the symmetry of belowground competition

   • Brent Blair

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 203

9. Population differentiation and phenotypic plasticity of wild and agrestal populations of the annual Anoda cristata (Malvaceae) growing in two contrasting habitats

   • Beatriz Rendón
   • Juan Núñez–Farfán

   OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 213

10. Vegetation of ant-hills in a mountain grassland:effects of mound history and of dominant ant species

    • Pavel Kovář
    • Marcela Kovářová
    • Tomáš Herben

    OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 227

11. Using spectral analysis to confront distributions of individual species with an overall periodic pattern in semi-arid vegetation

    • Pierre Couteron

    OriginalPaper Pages: 229 - 243

12. The effect of deceptive fruits on predispersal seed predation by birds in Pistacia lentiscus

    • Miguel Verdú
    • Patricio García-Fayos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 248