1. Distribution of plant communities, ecological strategy types and diversity along a moisture gradient

   • I. Zelnik
   • A. Čarni

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 1 - 9

2. Quantifying functional diversity with graph-theoretical measures: advantages and pitfalls

   • C. Ricotta
   • M. Moretti

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 11 - 16

3. Positive relationship between plant palatability and litter decomposition in meadow plants

   • K. Pálková
   • J. Lepš

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 17 - 27

4. Experimental warming does not enhance soil respiration in a semiarid temperate forest-steppe ecosystem

   • E. Lellei-Kovács
   • E. Kovács-Láng
   • C. Beier

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 29 - 37

5. Measuring ecosystem function: consequences arising from variation in biomass-productivity relationships

   • C. P. terHorst
   • P. Munguia

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 39 - 44

6. Functional response of Chelonus oculator (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to temperature, and its consequences to parasitism

   • M. García-Martín
   • M. Gámez
   • T. Cabello

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 45 - 51

7. The response of rare herbaceous plants to the removal of weeds in an unproductive environment

   • J. A. Brown
   • A. N. H. Smith
   • T. J. Robinson

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 53 - 58

8. A multivariate analysis examining the effect of landform on the distribution of riparian plant communities of Washington, USA

   • L. A. Mollot
   • R. E. Bilby
   • D. M. Chapin

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 59 - 72

9. Independent and interactive effects of a top and an intermediate fish species on the food web structure of a tropical stream

   • R. L. Motta
   • V. S. Uieda

   OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 73 - 82

10. Vegetation displacement issues and transition statistics in climate warming cycle¹

    • L. Orlóci

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 83 - 98

11. Diversity and abundance relationships in a fly collection from a salt lake in central Hungary

    • L. Papp
    • J. Izsák

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 99 - 105

12. Diversity/dominance diagrams show that fire disrupts the evenness in Mediterranean pinewood forest bird assemblages

    • C. Battisti
    • E. Ukmar
    • M. A. Bologna

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 107 - 113

13. Abundance patterns of terrestrial isopods along an urbanization gradient

    • T. Magura
    • E. Hornung
    • B. Tóthmérész

    OriginalPaper Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 115 - 120

14. Discovering and rediscovering the sample-based rarefaction formula in the ecological literature

    • A. Chiarucci
    • G. Bacaro
    • L. Fattorini

    Forum Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 121 - 123

15. mefa: an R package for handling and reporting count data

    • P. Sólymos

    Software Abstract Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 125 - 127

16. Book Review

    • J. Podani

    BookReview Open access 30 December 2008 Pages: 129 - 129