1. An ecological assessment of the United States mid-Atlantic region using rank frequency distributions based on watershed quintiles

   • G. P. Patil
   • C. Taillie
   • R. Vraney

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 1 - 8

2. A multivariate approach to the study of the spatial structure of treeline ecotones

   • J. J. Camarero
   • E. Gutiérrez

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 9 - 18

3. Optimal classification to describe environmental change: pictures from the exposition

   • P. E. R. Dale
   • M. B. Dale

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 19 - 29

4. The use of relative abundance patterns to discriminate among niche apportionment processes

   • R. A. Laird

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 31 - 38

5. Substrate specificity and community structure of bryophyte vegetation in a near-natural montane beech forest

   • P. Ódor
   • T. Standovár

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 39 - 49

6. The use of productivity and decomposition to address functional redundancy in the Neotropics

   • R. W. Myster

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 51 - 57

7. Vascular plant and epiphytic lichen communities in Canadian aspen parkland: scale-dependence of species-area relationships

   • H. L. Buckley

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 59 - 67

8. Sensitivity of diversity indices: a study of dipterous assemblages

   • J. Izsák
   • L. Papp

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 79 - 86

9. Abundance and species richness in natural aquatic microcosms: a test and refinement of the Niche-Limitation Hypothesis

   • T. N. Romanuk
   • J. Kolasa

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 87 - 94

10. Measuring taxonomic diversity with parametric information functions

    • C. Ricotta

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 95 - 99

11. Fractal analysis of seed dispersal and spatial pattern in wild oats

    • S. J. Shirtliffe
    • N. C. Kenkel
    • M. H. Entz

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 101 - 107

12. Trophic interactions in the phytotelmata communities of the Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea

    • T. E. Miller
    • L. Horth
    • R. H. Reeves

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 109 - 116

13. Complex questions require complex answers — rejoinder to F. Jordán

    • C. Ricotta
    • A. Stanisci
    • C. Blasi

    Forum Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 117 - 119

14. Book reviews

    • P. Csontos

    BookReview Open access 30 December 2001 Pages: 121 - 123