1. Drought avoidance and the effect of local topography on trees in the understorey of Bornean lowland rain forest

   • J.M. Gibbons
   • D.M. Newbery

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 18

2. Mantel and partial Mantel tests suggest some factors that may control the local distribution of Aster laurentianus at Îles de la Madeleine, Québec

   • Christina E. Reynolds
   • Gilles Houle

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 27

3. Canopy gaps are sites of reduced belowground plant competition in a productive old field

   • James F. Cahill
   • Brenda B. Casper

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 36

4. Spatial and temporal variability of herbaceous vegetation in an eastern deciduous forest

   • Christine J. Small
   • Brian C. McCarthy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 48

5. Community seed rain patterns and a comparison to adult community structure in a West African tropical forest

   • Britta Denise Hardesty
   • V. Thomas Parker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 64

6. Spatial Characteristics and Change for Tree Species along the North East China Transect (NECT)

   • Xiongwen Chen
   • Guangsheng Zhou
   • Xinshi Zhang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 74

7. Composition change and vegetation degradation of riparian forests in the altai plain, NW China

   • Shuqing An
   • Xiaoli Cheng
   • Jing Li

   OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 84

8. Woody invasion of grasslands: evidence that CO₂ enrichment indirectly promotes establishment of Prosopis glandulosa

   • H. Wayne Polley
   • Hyrum B. Johnson
   • Charles R. Tischler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 94

9. Persistence in Sarcopoterium spinosum dwarf-shrub communities

   • No'am Seligman
   • Zalmen Henkin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 107

10. Community Structure of Woody Plants of Roraima Savannahs, Brazil

    • Izildinha Souza Miranda
    • Maria Lúcia Absy
    • George Henrique Rebêlo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 123

11. Effects of drought in biomass production and allocation in three varieties of Trichloris crinita P. (Poaceae) a forage grass from the arid Monte region of Argentina

    • S.A. Greco
    • J.B. Cavagnaro

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 135