1. Evaluating functions to describe point patterns

   • B. B. Hanberry
   • Jian Yang
   • Hong S. He

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 1 - 7

2. Microhabitat heterogeneity in temperate forests: is distance to stems affecting ground-dwelling spider communities?

   • T. M. Ziesche
   • M. Roth

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 8 - 17

3. Patterns of biodiversity in the northwestern Italian Alps: a multi-taxa approach

   • R. Viterbi
   • C. Cerrato
   • G. Bogliani

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 18 - 30

4. Functional traits shed new light on the nature of ecotones: a study across a bog-to-forest sequence

   • G. Brownstein
   • T. F. Döbert
   • J. Bastow Wilson

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 31 - 40

5. Herbivore species identity mediates interspecific competition between plants

   • S. Ibanez
   • M. Bison
   • M. Moretti

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 41 - 47

6. Species composition and diversity of natural forest edges: edge responses and local edge species

   • L. Erdős
   • R. Gallé
   • Z. Bátori

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 48 - 58

7. Fiddler crabs (Uca thayeri, Brachyura: Ocypodidae) affect bacterial assemblages in mangrove forest sediments

   • C. Cuellar-Gempeler
   • P. Munguia

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 59 - 66

8. Arbuscular mycorrhizal colonisation of roots of grass species differing in invasiveness

   • G. Endresz
   • I. Somodi
   • T. Kalapos

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 67 - 76

9. Habitat filtering determines spatial variation of macroinvertebrate community traits in northern headwater streams

   • D. Schmera
   • T. Erős
   • J. Heino

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 77 - 88

10. Convergence in foraging guild structure of forest breeding bird assemblages across three continents is related to habitat structure and foraging opportunities

    • M. Korňan
    • R. T. Holmes
    • R. Kropil

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 89 - 100

11. The effects of stand characteristics on the understory vegetation in Quercus petraea and Q. cerris dominated forests

    • R. Ádám
    • P. Ódor
    • J. Bölöni

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 101 - 109

12. Differential responses of ecosystem components to a low-intensity fire in a Mediterranean forest: a three-year case study

    • S. García-Tejero
    • Á. Taboada
    • E. Marcos

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 110 - 120

13. The classification conundrum: species fidelity as leading criterion in search of a rigorous method to classify a complex forest data set

    • M. C. Lötter
    • L. Mucina
    • E. T. F. Witkowski

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 121 - 132

14. Book review

    • T. Kalapos

    BookReview Open access 30 December 2013 Pages: 133 - 133