1. How beneficial are nurse plants? A meta-analysis of the effects of cushion plants on high-Andean plant communities

   • A. Arredondo-Núñez
   • E. I. Badano
   • R. O. Bustamante

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 1 - 6

2. Algal species diversity of arid region lakes in Kazakhstan and Israel

   • S. S. Barinova
   • T. M. Bragina
   • E. Nevo

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 7 - 16

3. Processes governing riverine fish species richness are scale-independent

   • T. N. Romanuk
   • B. E. Beisner
   • E. McCauley

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 17 - 24

4. Cyclic patch dynamics in a Macaronesian island forest

   • R. B. Elias
   • E. Dias

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 25 - 34

5. Latitude-related variation in understory vegetation of boreal Populus tremuloides stands in Alberta, Canada

   • W. L. Strong
   • M. J. Redburn

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 35 - 44

6. A synthetic approach for analyzing tropical tree spatial patterns through time

   • M. D. Leithead
   • M. Anand
   • L. Deeth

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 45 - 52

7. A classificatory approach integrating fuzzy set theory and permutation techniques for land cover analysis: a case study on a degrading area of the Rift Valley (Ethiopia)

   • E. Feoli
   • L. Gallizia-Vuerich
   • Zerihun Woldu

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 53 - 64

8. Old-field succession related to soil nitrogen and moisture, and the importance of plant species traits

   • R. Szabó
   • K. Prach

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 65 - 73

9. The influence of habitat heterogeneity on the fine-scale pattern of an Heteroptera assemblage in a sand grassland

   • A. Torma
   • L. Körmöczi

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 75 - 80

10. A comparison of three indirect methods for estimating understory light at different spatial scales in temperate mixed forests

    • F. Tinya
    • B. Mihók
    • P. Ódor

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 81 - 90

11. Abundance-occupancy relationships and implications for conservation of desert plants in the northwestern Red Sea region

    • J. Lovett-Doust
    • A. K. Hegazy
    • N. H. Gomaa

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 91 - 98

12. Bird species distributions across woodland canopy structure gradients

    • S. A. Hinsley
    • R. A. Hill
    • P. Rothery

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 99 - 110

13. Functional diversity of rhizosphere microorganisms from different genotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana

    • A. García-Villaraco Velasco
    • A. Probanza
    • J. A. Lucas García

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 111 - 119

14. Scale dependency of species composition and environmental variables in the strata of a deciduous forest

    • S. Chandy
    • D. J. Gibson

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 121 - 130

15. Plant traits related to competition: how do they shape the functional diversity of communities?

    • M. L. Navas
    • C. Violle

    Points of view Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 131 - 137

16. Book review

    • Ákos Malatinszky

    BookReview Open access 30 December 2009 Pages: 139 - 139