1. Organic matter and nutrient dynamics of the forest and forest floor in the Hubbard Brook forest

   • James R. Gosz
   • Gene E. Likens
   • F. Herbert Bormann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 320

2. Competition between two desert varieties of Medicago laciniata (L.) Mill. under controlled conditions

   • Jacob Friedman
   • Wim Th. Elberse

   OriginalPaper Pages: 321 - 339

3. Biomass and production of large African herbivores in relation to rainfall and primary production

   • M. J. Coe
   • D. H. Cumming
   • J. Phillipson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 341 - 354

4. An empirical model of net photosynthesis for the desert plant Hammada scoparia (Pomel) Iljin

   • E. -D. Schulze
   • O. L. Lange
   • U. Buschbom

   OriginalPaper Pages: 355 - 372

5. Gradient analysis of spider communities in a streamside forest

   • George W. Uetz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 373 - 385

6. Produktivität und Energiegehalte von Gefä\pflanzen im Adventdalen (Spitzbergen)

   • Wolf Brzoska

   OriginalPaper Pages: 387 - 398

7. The natural history of a fugitive prairie plant (Mirabilis hirsuta (Pursh) MacM.)

   • William J. Platt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 399 - 409

8. Nutrient turnover studies in alpine ecosystems

   • H. Rehder

   OriginalPaper Pages: 411 - 423

9. Some aspects of the metabolism of hibernating and recently aroused common dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius L. (Rodentia, Gliridae)

   • Helge Walhovd
   • Jan Vestergaard Jensen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 425 - 429

10. Energy budgets for Stentor coeruleus Ehrenberg (Ciliophora)

    • Johanna Laybourn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 431 - 437

11. Effect of the odour of weasels (Mustela nivalis L.) on trapped samples of their prey

    • D. Michael Stoddart

    Short Communications Pages: 439 - 441