Journal of Arid Environments - 80, 2012

Editorial Board

Analyzing the community composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonizing the roots of representative shrubland species in a Mediterranean ecosystem
I. Sánchez-Castro, N. Ferrol, J.M. Barea

Effects of seed beetles on the performance of desert legumes depend on host species, plant stage, and beetle density
C.W. Fox, W.G. Wallin, M.L. Bush, M.E. Czesak, F.J. Messina

Demographic hurdles to persistence in Acacia peuce (F. Muell.): Effects of resources, fire and browsing on a threatened keystone tree species from arid Australia
C.E.M. Nano, A.E. Bowland, T.J. Nano, S. Raghu, C.R. Pavey

Comparison of bird and mammal communities on black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies and uncolonized shortgrass prairie in New Mexico
C.B. Goguen

Shrub hummocks as foci for small animal disturbances in an encroached shrubland
S. Daryanto, D.J. Eldridge

Factors contributing to dust storms in source regions producing the yellow-sand phenomena observed in Japan from 1993 to 2002
R. Kimura

Monitoring desertification in a Savannah region in Sudan using Landsat images and spectral mixture analysis
M. Dawelbait, F. Morari

Classifying land-ownership motivations in central, Texas, USA: A first step in understanding drivers of large-scale land cover change
M.G. Sorice, U.P. Kreuter, B.P. Wilcox, W.E. Fox III

Performance, management and objectives of cattle farming on communal ranges in Namibia
M. Siegmund-Schultze, F. Lange, U. Schneiderat, J. Steinbach

Roads increase woody cover under varying geological, rainfall and fire regimes in African savanna
I.P.J. Smit, G.P. Asner

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Biogeosciences - 9 (1), 2012

Contents:

Semi-annual carbon and nitrogen isotope variations in the water column of Lake Bled, NW Slovenia
A. Bratkič, M. Šturm, J. Faganeli, and N. Ogrinc

Effects of climate variability and functional changes on the interannual variation of the carbon balance in a temperate deciduous forest
J. Wu, L. van der Linden, G. Lasslop, N. Carvalhais, K. Pilegaard, C. Beier, and A. Ibrom

An investigation of the calcification response of the scleractinian coral Astrangia poculata to elevated pCO2 and the effects of nutrients, zooxanthellae and gender
M. Holcomb, A. L. Cohen, and D. C. McCorkle

Corrigendum to "Integration of remote sensing data and surface observations to estimate the impact of the Russian wildfires over Europe and Asia during August 2010" published in Biogeosciences, 8, 3771–3791, 2011
L. Mei, Y. Xue, G. de Leeuw, J. Guang, Y. Wang, Y. Li, H. Xu, L. Yang, T. Hou, X. He, C. Wu, J. Dong, and Z. Chen

Methanotrophic activity and diversity in different Sphagnum magellanicum dominated habitats in the southernmost peat bogs of Patagonia
N. Kip, C. Fritz, E. S. Langelaan, Y. Pan, L. Bodrossy, V. Pancotto, M. S. M. Jetten, A. J. P. Smolders, and H. J. M. Op den Camp

Spatialized N budgets in a large agricultural Mediterranean watershed: high loading and low transfer
L. Lassaletta, E. Romero, G. Billen, J. Garnier, H. García-Gómez, and J. V. Rovira

Linear trends in seasonal vegetation time series and the modifiable temporal unit problem
R. de Jong and S. de Bruin

Exploring the "overflow tap" theory: linking forest soil CO2 fluxes and individual mycorrhizosphere components to photosynthesis
A. Heinemeyer, M. Wilkinson, R. Vargas, J.-A. Subke, E. Casella, J. I. L. Morison, and P. Ineson

Oceanic controls on the primary production of the northwest European continental shelf: model experiments under recent past conditions and a potential future scenario
J. Holt, M. Butenschön, S. L. Wakelin, Y. Artioli, and J. I. Allen

Chemical composition of modern and fossil Hippopotamid teeth and implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions and enamel formation – Part 1: Major and minor element variation
G. Brügmann, J. Krause, T. C. Brachert, O. Kullmer, F. Schrenk, I. Ssemmanda, and D. F. Mertz

A new concept for simulation of vegetated land surface dynamics – Part 1: The event driven phenology model
V. Kovalskyy and G. M. Henebry

Alternative methods to predict actual evapotranspiration illustrate the importance of accounting for phenology – Part 2: The event driven phenology model
V. Kovalskyy and G. M. Henebry

Mapping tropical forest biomass with radar and spaceborne LiDAR in Lopé National Park, Gabon: overcoming problems of high biomass and persistent cloud
E. T. A. Mitchard, S. S. Saatchi, L. J. T. White, K. A. Abernethy, K. J. Jeffery, S. L. Lewis, M. Collins, M. A. Lefsky, M. E. Leal, I. H. Woodhouse, and P. Meir

The strength of the biotic compartment in retaining nitrogen additions prevents nitrogen losses from a Mediterranean maquis
T. Dias, M. A. Martins-Louçao, L. Sheppard, and C. Cruz

Contrasting biogeochemistry of nitrogen in the Atlantic and Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zones
E. Ryabenko, A. Kock, H. W. Bange, M. A. Altabet, and D. W. R. Wallace

Seasonal and inter-annual variability of plankton chlorophyll and primary production in the Mediterranean Sea: a modelling approach
P. Lazzari, C. Solidoro, V. Ibello, S. Salon, A. Teruzzi, K. Béranger, S. Colella, and A. Crise

A dynamic model of wetland extent and peat accumulation: results for the Holocene
T. Kleinen, V. Brovkin, and R. J. Schuldt

Spatial and temporal CO2 exchanges measured by Eddy Covariance over a temperate intertidal flat and their relationships to net ecosystem production
P. Polsenaere, E. Lamaud, V. Lafon, J.-M. Bonnefond, P. Bretel, B. Delille, J. Deborde, D. Loustau, and G. Abril

Corrigendum to "Stand age and tree species affect N2O and CH4 exchange from afforested soils" published in Biogeosciences, 8, 2535–2546, 2011
J. R. Christiansen and P. Gundersen

Intercontinental trans-boundary contributions to ozone-induced crop yield losses in the Northern Hemisphere
M. J. Hollaway, S. R. Arnold, A. J. Challinor, and L. D. Emberson

A comparative study of biological production in eastern boundary upwelling systems using an artificial neural network
Z. Lachkar and N. Gruber

Pteropods from the Caribbean Sea: variations in calcification as an indicator of past ocean carbonate saturation
D. Wall-Palmer, M. B. Hart, C. W. Smart, R. S. J. Sparks, A. Le Friant, G. Boudon, C. Deplus, and J. C. Komorowski

Fire, drought and El Nino relationships on Borneo (Southeast Asia) in the pre-MODIS era (1980–2000)
M. J. Wooster, G. L. W. Perry, and A. Zoumas

EMP and SIMS studies on Mn/Ca and Fe/Ca systematics in benthic foraminifera from the Peruvian OMZ: a contribution to the identification of potential redox proxies and the impact of cleaning protocols
N. Glock, A. Eisenhauer, V. Liebetrau, M. Wiedenbeck, C. Hensen, and G. Nehrke

Nitrogen balance and fate in a heavily impacted watershed (Oglio River, Northern Italy): in quest of the missing sources and sinks
M. Bartoli, E. Racchetti, C. A. Delconte, E. Sacchi, E. Soana, A. Laini, D. Longhi, and P. Viaroli

Day and night warming have different effect on root lifespan
W. M. Bai, J. Y. Xia, S. Q. Wan, W. H. Zhang, and L. H. Li

Nitrogen compounds emission and deposition in West African ecosystems: comparison between wet and dry savanna
C. Delon, C. Galy-Lacaux, M. Adon, C. Liousse, D. Serça, B. Diop, and A. Akpo

Annual emissions of CH4 and N2O, and ecosystem respiration, from eight organic soils in Western Denmark managed by agriculture
S. O. Petersen, C. C. Hoffmann, C.-M. Schäfer, G. Blicher-Mathiesen, L. Elsgaard, K. Kristensen, S. E. Larsen, S. B. Torp, and M. H. Greve

Land use change and the impact on greenhouse gas exchange in north Australian savanna soils
S. P. P. Grover, S. J. Livesley, L. B. Hutley, H. Jamali, B. Fest, J. Beringer, K. Butterbach-Bahl, and S. K. Arndt

Modelling LAI, surface water and carbon fluxes at high-resolution over France: comparison of ISBA-A-gs and ORCHIDEE
S. Lafont, Y. Zhao, J.-C. Calvet, P. Peylin, P. Ciais, F. Maignan, and M. Weiss

North American CO2 exchange: inter-comparison of modeled estimates with results from a fine-scale atmospheric inversion
S. M. Gourdji, K. L. Mueller, V. Yadav, D. N. Huntzinger, A. E. Andrews, M. Trudeau, G. Petron, T. Nehrkorn, J. Eluszkiewicz, J. Henderson, D. Wen, J. Lin, M. Fischer, C. Sweeney, and A. M. Michalak

Climate impacts on the structures of the North Pacific air-sea CO2 flux variability
V. Valsala, S. Maksyutov, M. Telszewski, S. Nakaoka, Y. Nojiri, M. Ikeda, and R. Murtugudde

Biogeochemical factors affecting mercury methylation rate in two contaminated floodplain soils
T. Frohne, J. Rinklebe, U. Langer, G. Du Laing, S. Mothes, and R. Wennrich

The impacts of climate, land use, and demography on fires during the 21st century simulated by CLM-CN
S. Kloster, N. M. Mahowald, J. T. Randerson, and P. J. Lawrence

Biomass burning emissions estimated with a global fire assimilation system based on observed fire radiative power
J. W. Kaiser, A. Heil, M. O. Andreae, A. Benedetti, N. Chubarova, L. Jones, J.-J. Morcrette, M. Razinger, M. G. Schultz, M. Suttie, and G. R. van der Werf

Diagenetic alterations of amino acids and organic matter in the upper Pearl River Estuary surface sediments
J. Zhang, R. Zhang, Q. Wu, and N. Xu

Plant-driven variation in decomposition rates improves projections of global litter stock distribution
V. Brovkin, P. M. van Bodegom, T. Kleinen, C. Wirth, W. K. Cornwell, J. H. C. Cornelissen, and J. Kattge

Water-table height and microtopography control biogeochemical cycling in an Arctic coastal tundra ecosystem
D. A. Lipson, D. Zona, T. K. Raab, F. Bozzolo, M. Mauritz, and W. C. Oechel

Effect of mosaic representation of vegetation in land surface schemes on simulated energy and carbon balances
R. Li and V. K. Arora

Localising the nitrogen imprint of the Paris food supply: the potential of organic farming and changes in human diet
G. Billen, J. Garnier, V. Thieu, M. Silvestre, S. Barles, and P. Chatzimpiros


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New Phytologist - 191 (1-4), 2011

New Phytologist - 191 (1-2), 2011




Contents:

Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue on plant respiration in variable environments
Atkin, Owen K.

Pushing back in time: the role of fire in plant evolution
Midgley, Jeremy; Bond, William

The hairy problem of epigenetics in evolution
Richards, Christina L.; Wendel, Jonathan F.

Metabolic fluxes, carbon isotope fractionation and respiration - lessons to be learned from plant biochemistry
Werner, Roland A.; Buchmann, Nina; Siegwolf, Rolf T. W.; Kornexl, Barbara E.; Gessler, Arthur

How do we improve Earth system models? Integrating Earth system models, ecosystem models, experiments and long-term data
Leuzinger, Sebastian; Quinn Thomas, R.

Genes to ecosystems: exploring the frontiers of ecology with one of the smallest biological units
Wymore, Adam S.; Keeley, Annika T. H.; Yturralde, Kasey M.; Schroer, Melanie L.; Propper, Catherine R.; Whitham, Thomas G.

The evolution of RNA editing and pentatricopeptide repeat genes
Fujii, Sota; Small, Ian

Arsenic biotransformation and volatilization in transgenic rice
Meng, Xiang-Yan; Qin, Jie; Wang, Li-Hong; Duan, Gui-Lan; Sun, Guo-Xin; Wu, Hui-Lan; Chu, Cheng-Cai; Ling, Hong-Qing; Rosen, Barry P.; Zhu, Yong-Guan

cGMP-dependent ABA-induced stomatal closure in the ABA-insensitive Arabidopsis mutant abi1-1
Dubovskaya, Lyudmila V.; Bakakina, Yulia S.; Kolesneva, Ekaterina V.; Sodel, Dmitry L.; McAinsh, Martin R.; Hetherington, Alistair M.; Volotovski, Igor D.

A defective ABC transporter of the MRP family, responsible for the bean lpa1 mutation, affects the regulation of the phytic acid pathway, reduces seed myo-inositol and alters ABA sensitivity
Panzeri, Dario; Cassani, Elena; Doria, Enrico; Tagliabue, Giovanni; Forti, Luca; Campion, Bruno; Bollini, Roberto; Brearley, Charles A.; Pilu, Roberto; Nielsen, Erik; Sparvoli, Francesca

Vacuolar two-pore K+ channels act as vacuolar osmosensors
Maathuis, Frans J. M.

Deubiquitinating enzymes AtUBP12 and AtUBP13 and their tobacco homologue NtUBP12 are negative regulators of plant immunity
Ewan, Richard; Pangestuti, Ratih; Thornber, Sarah; Craig, Adam; Carr, Craig; O'Donnell, Liz; Zhang, Cunjn; Sadanandom, Ari

Different roles of Enhanced Disease Susceptibility1 (EDS1) bound to and dissociated from Phytoalexin Deficient4 (PAD4) in Arabidopsis immunity
Rietz, Steffen; Stamm, Anika; Malonek, Stefan; Wagner, Stephan; Becker, Dieter; Medina-Escobar, Nieves; Corina Vlot, A.; Feys, Bart J.; Niefind, Karsten; Parker, Jane E.

Effects of selenium hyperaccumulation on plant-plant interactions: evidence for elemental allelopathy?
El Mehdawi, Ali F.; Quinn, Colin F.; Pilon-Smits, Elizabeth A. H.

Changes in the structural composition and reactivity of Acer rubrum leaf litter tannins exposed to warming and altered precipitation: climatic stress-induced tannins are more reactive
Tharayil, Nishanth; Suseela, Vidya; Triebwasser, Daniella J.; Preston, Caroline M.; Gerard, Patrick D.; Dukes, Jeffrey S.

Intra-leaf gradients of photoinhibition induced by different color lights: implications for the dual mechanisms of photoinhibition and for the application of conventional chlorophyll fluorometers
Oguchi, Riichi; Douwstra, Peter; Fujita, Takashi; Chow, Wah Soon; Terashima, Ichiro

Seasonal patterns of carbon allocation to respiratory pools in 60-yr-old deciduous (Fagus sylvatica) and evergreen (Picea abies) trees assessed via whole-tree stable carbon isotope labeling
Kuptz, Daniel; Fleischmann, Frank; Matyssek, Rainer; Grams, Thorsten E. E.

Introducing short roots in a desert perennial: anatomy and spatiotemporal foraging responses to increased precipitation
Salguero-Gómez, Roberto; Casper, Brenda B.

Banksia born to burn
He, Tianhua; Lamont, Byron B.; Downes, Katherine S.

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome
Lehmann, Caroline E. R.; Archibald, Sally A.; Hoffmann, William A.; Bond, William J.

Life on the edge: rare and restricted episodes of a pan-tropical mutualism adapting to drier climates
McLeish, Michael; Guo, Danni; van Noort, Simon; Midgley, Guy

Parental effects modulate seed longevity: exploring parental and offspring phenotypes to elucidate pre-zygotic environmental influences
Kochanek, Jitka; Steadman, Kathryn J.; Probert, Robin J.; Adkins, Steve W.

Ascorbate peroxidase-related (APx-R) is a new heme-containing protein functionally associated with ascorbate peroxidase but evolutionarily divergent
Lazzarotto, Fernanda; Teixeira, Felipe Karam; Rosa, Silvia Barcelos; Dunand, Christophe; Fernandes, Claudia Lemelle; de Vasconcelos Fontenele, Adilton; Silveira, Joaquim Albenisio Gomes; Verli, Hugo; Margis, Rogério; Margis-Pinheiro, Marcia

Differential regulation of a MYB transcription factor is correlated with transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of trichome density in Mimulus guttatus
Scoville, Alison G.; Barnett, Laryssa L.; Bodbyl-Roels, Sarah; Kelly, John K.; Hileman, Lena C.

Predictable patterns of constraint among anthocyanin-regulating transcription factors in Ipomoea
Streisfeld, Matthew A.; Liu, Danya; Rausher, Mark D.

Complex evolution of S5, a major reproductive barrier regulator, in the cultivated rice Oryza sativa and its wild relatives
Du, Hongyi; Ouyang, Yidan; Zhang, Chengjun; Zhang, Qifa

DNA barcoding of lichenized fungi demonstrates high identification success in a floristic context
Kelly, Laura J.; Hollingsworth, Peter M.; Coppins, Brian J.; Ellis, Christopher J.; Harrold, Paul; Tosh, James; Yahr, Rebecca

An experimental method to facilitate the identification of hybrid sporophytes in the moss Physcomitrella patens using fluorescent tagged lines
Perroud, Pierre-François; Cove, David J.; Quatrano, Ralph S.; McDaniel, Stuart F.


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New Phytologist - 191 (3), 2011




Contents:

The latitudinal herbivory-defence hypothesis takes a detour on the map
Johnson, Marc T. J.; Rasmann, Sergio

Where are all the undocumented fungal species? A study of Mortierella demonstrates the need for sequence-based classification
Hibbett, David; Glotzer, Dylan

Photochemical reflectance index (PRI) and remote sensing of plant CO2 uptake
Penuelas, Josep; Garbulsky, Martin F.; Filella, Iolanda

Modelling the size and composition of fruit, grain and seed by process-based simulation models
Martre, Pierre; Bertin, Nadia; Salon, Christophe; Génard, Michel

The photosynthetic plasticity of crassulacean acid metabolism: an evolutionary innovation for sustainable productivity in a changing world
Borland, Anne M.; Barrera Zambrano, V. Andrea; Ceusters, Johan; Shorrock, Katherine

Arabidopsis thaliana ORGAN SIZE RELATED1 regulates organ growth and final organ size in orchestration with ARGOS and ARL
Feng, Guanping; Qin, Zhixiang; Yan, Jingzhou; Zhang, Xiaoran; Hu, Yuxin

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of a NAC1 transcription factor in Medicago truncatula roots
D'haeseleer, Katrien; Den Herder, Griet; Laffont, Carole; Plet, Julie; Mortier, Virginie; Lelandais-Briere, Christine; De Bodt, Stefanie; De Keyser, Annick; Crespi, Martin; Holsters, Marcelle; Frugier, Florian; Goormachtig, Sofie

Overexpression of PhEXPA1 increases cell size, modifies cell wall polymer composition and affects the timing of axillary meristem development in Petunia hybrida
Zenoni, Sara; Fasoli, Marianna; Tornielli, Giovanni Battista; Dal Santo, Silvia; Sanson, Andrea; de Groot, Peter; Sordo, Sara; Citterio, Sandra; Monti, Francesca; Pezzotti, Mario

SHORT INTERNODES-like genes regulate shoot growth and xylem proliferation in Populus
Zawaski, Christine; Kadmiel, Mahita; Ma, Cathleen; Gai, Ying; Jiang, Xiangning; Strauss, Steve H.; Busov, Victor B.

Heat-induced chaperone activity of serine/threonine protein phosphatase 5 enhances thermotolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana
Park, Jin Ho; Lee, Sun Yong; Kim, Woe Yeon; Jung, Young Jun; Chae, Ho Byoung; Jung, Hyun Suk; Kang, Chang Ho; Shin, Mi Rim; Kim, Sun Young; Su'udi, Mukhamad; Yun, Dae Jin; Lee, Kyun Oh; Kim, Min Gab; Lee, Sang Yeol

Induction of systemic stress tolerance by brassinosteroid in Cucumis sativus
Xia, Xiao-Jian; Zhou, Yan-Hong; Ding, Ju; Shi, Kai; Asami, Tadao; Chen, Zhixiang; Yu, Jing-Quan

Rice A20/AN1 zinc-finger containing stress-associated proteins (SAP1/11) and a receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase (OsRLCK253) interact via A20 zinc-finger and confer abiotic stress tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis plant
Giri, Jitender; Vij, Shubha; Dansana, Prasant K.; Tyagi, Akhilesh K.

The sucrose-regulated Arabidopsis transcription factor bZIP11 reprograms metabolism and regulates trehalose metabolism
Ma, Jingkun; Hanssen, Micha; Lundgren, Krister; Hernández, Lázaro; Delatte, Thierry; Ehlert, Andrea; Liu, Chun-Ming; Schluepmann, Henriette; Dröge-Laser, Wolfgang; Moritz, Thomas; Smeekens, Sjef; Hanson, Johannes

A zinc finger protein Tsip1 controls Cucumber mosaic virus infection by interacting with the replication complex on vacuolar membranes of the tobacco plant
Huh, Sung Un; Kim, Min Jung; Ham, Byung-Kook; Paek, Kyung-Hee

Presence/absence, differential expression and sequence polymorphisms between PiAVR2 and PiAVR2-like in Phytophthora infestans determine virulence on R2 plants
Gilroy, Eleanor M.; Breen, Susan; Whisson, Stephen C.; Squires, Julie; Hein, Ingo; Kaczmarek, Maciej; Turnbull, Dionne; Boevink, Petra C.; Lokossou, Anoma; Cano, Liliana M.; Morales, Juan; Avrova, Anna O.; Pritchard, Leighton; Randall, Eva; Lees, Alison; Govers, Francine; van West, Pieter; Kamoun, Sophien; Vleeshouwers, Vivianne G. A. A.; Cooke, David E. L.; Birch, Paul R. J.

Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes
Angela T. Moles, Ian R. Wallis, William J. Foley, David I. Warton, James C. Stegen, Alejandro J. Bisigato, Lucrecia Cella-Pizarro, Connie J. Clark, Philippe S. Cohen, William K. Cornwell, Will Edwards, Rasmus Ejrnas, Therany Gonzales-Ojeda, Bente J. Graae, Gregory Hay, Fainess C. Lumbwe, Benjamín Magana-Rodríguez, Ben D. Moore, Pablo L. Peri, John R. Poulsen, Ruan Veldtman, Hugo von Zeipel, Nigel R. Andrew, Sarah L. Boulter, Elizabeth T. Borer, Florencia Fernández Campón, Moshe Coll, Alejandro G. Farji-Brener, Jane De Gabriel, Enrique Jurado, Line A. Kyhn, Bill Low, Christa P. H. Mulder, Kathryn Reardon-Smith, Jorge Rodríguez-Velázquez, Eric W. Seabloom, Peter A. Vesk, An van Cauter, Matthew S. Waldram, Zheng Zheng, Pedro G. Blendinger, Brian J. Enquist, Jose M. Facelli, Tiffany Knight, Jonathan D. Majer, Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Peter McQuillan and Lynda D. Prior

Where is the unseen fungal diversity hidden? A study of Mortierella reveals a large contribution of reference collections to the identification of fungal environmental sequences
Nagy, László G.; Petkovits, Tamás; Kovács, Gábor M.; Voigt, Kerstin; Vágvölgyi, Csaba; Papp, Tamás

Lichen responses to nitrogen and phosphorus additions can be explained by the different symbiont responses
Johansson, Otilia; Olofsson, Johan; Giesler, Reiner; Palmqvist, Kristin

Growth and community responses of alpine dwarf shrubs to in situ CO2 enrichment and soil warming
Dawes, Melissa A.; Hagedorn, Frank; Zumbrunn, Thomas; Handa, Ira Tanya; Hättenschwiler, Stephan; Wipf, Sonja; Rixen, Christian

The statistical mechanics of community assembly and species distribution
Kelly, Colleen K.; Blundell, Stephen J.; Bowler, Michael G.; Fox, Gordon A.; Harvey, Paul H.; Lomas, Mark R.; Ian Woodward, F.

Multiple mechanisms underlie rapid expansion of an invasive alien plant
Wang, Rui; Wang, Jin-Feng; Qiu, Zhi-Jing; Meng, Bin; Wan, Fang-Hao; Wang, Yin-Zheng

Glyphosate-drift but not herbivory alters the rate of transgene flow from single and stacked trait transgenic canola (Brassica napus) to nontransgenic B. napus and B. rapa
Londo, Jason P.; Bollman, Michael A.; Sagers, Cynthia L.; Lee, E. Henry; Watrud, Lidia S.

Phylogeny-based developmental analyses illuminate evolution of inflorescence architectures in dogwoods (Cornus s.l., Cornaceae)
Feng, Chun-Miao; Xiang, Qiu-Yun (Jenny); Franks, Robert G.

Petal-specific subfunctionalization of an APETALA3 paralog in the Ranunculales and its implications for petal evolution
Sharma, Bharti; Guo, Chunce; Kong, Hongzhi; Kramer, Elena M.

Polyploid formation pathways have an impact on genetic rearrangements in resynthesized Brassica napus
Szadkowski, E.; Eber, F.; Huteau, V.; Lodé, M.; Coriton, O.; Jenczewski, E.; Chevre, A. M.

A growth phenotyping pipeline for Arabidopsis thaliana integrating image analysis and rosette area modeling for robust quantification of genotype effects
Arvidsson, Samuel; Pérez-Rodríguez, Paulino; Mueller-Roeber, Bernd

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New Phytologist - 191 (4), 2011




Contents:

New insights into cell death induced by long chain bases in Arabidopsis
Michaelson, Louise V.

Gone with the wind: understanding evolutionary transitions between wind and animal pollination in the angiosperms
Friedman, Jannice

Sequencing crop genomes: approaches and applications
Jackson, Scott A.; Iwata, Aiko; Lee, Suk-Ha; Schmutz, Jeremy; Shoemaker, Randy

Leaf-out phenology of temperate woody plants: from trees to ecosystems
Polgar, Caroline A.; Primack, Richard B.

MPK6, sphinganine and the LCB2a gene from serine palmitoyltransferase are required in the signaling pathway that mediates cell death induced by long chain bases in Arabidopsis
Saucedo-García, Mariana; Guevara-García, Arturo; González-Solís, Ariadna; Cruz-García, Felipe; Vázquez-Santana, Sonia; Markham, Jonathan E.; Lozano-Rosas, M. Guadalupe; Dietrich, Charles R.; Ramos-Vega, Maricela; Cahoon, Edgar B.; Gavilanes-Ruíz, Marina

The Arabidopsis aminopeptidase LAP2 regulates plant growth, leaf longevity and stress response
Waditee-Sirisattha, Rungaroon; Shibato, Junko; Rakwal, Randeep; Sirisattha, Sophon; Hattori, Akira; Nakano, Takeshi; Takabe, Teruhiro; Tsujimoto, Masafumi

Auxin minimum defines a developmental window for lateral root initiation
Dubrovsky, Joseph G.; Napsucialy-Mendivil, Selene; Duclercq, Jérme; Cheng, Yan; Shishkova, Svetlana; Ivanchenko, Maria G.; Friml, Jiří; Murphy, Angus S.; Benková, Eva

OsSFR6 is a functional rice orthologue of SENSITIVE TO FREEZING-6 and can act as a regulator of COR gene expression, osmotic stress and freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis
Wathugala, Deepthi L.; Richards, Shane A.; Knight, Heather; Knight, Marc R.

Xylem traits mediate a trade-off between resistance to freeze-thaw-induced embolism and photosynthetic capacity in overwintering evergreens
Choat, Brendan; Medek, Danielle E.; Stuart, Stephanie A.; Pasquet-Kok, Jessica; Egerton, John J. G.; Salari, Hooman; Sack, Lawren; Ball, Marilyn C.

On the multi-temporal correlation between photosynthesis and soil CO2 efflux: reconciling lags and observations
Vargas, Rodrigo; Baldocchi, Dennis D.; Bahn, Michael; Hanson, Paul J.; Hosman, Kevin P.; Kulmala, Liisa; Pumpanen, Jukka; Yang, Bai

Phytotoxicity, not nitrogen immobilization, explains plant litter inhibitory effects: evidence from solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy
Bonanomi, Giuliano; Incerti, Guido; Barile, Elisa; Capodilupo, Manuela; Antignani, Vincenzo; Mingo, Antonio; Lanzotti, Virginia; Scala, Felice; Mazzoleni, Stefano

Leaf and root pectin methylesterase activity and 13C/12C stable isotopic ratio measurements of methanol emissions give insight into methanol production in Lycopersicon esculentum
Oikawa, Patricia Yoshino; Giebel, Brian M.; da Silveira Lobo O'Reilly Sternberg, Leonel; Li, Lei; Timko, Michael P.; Swart, Peter K.; Riemer, Daniel D.; Mak, John E.; Lerdau, Manuel T.

The molecular basis of quantitative variation in foliar secondary metabolites in Eucalyptus globulus
Külheim, Carsten; Yeoh, Suat Hui; Wallis, Ian R.; Laffan, Shawn; Moran, Gavin F.; Foley, William J.

C12 derivatives of the hydroperoxide lyase pathway are produced by product recycling through lipoxygenase-2 in Nicotiana attenuata leaves
Kallenbach, Mario; Gilardoni, Paola A.; Allmann, Silke; Baldwin, Ian T.; Bonaventure, Gustavo

Mining for treatment-specific and general changes in target compounds and metabolic fingerprints in response to herbivory and phytohormones in Plantago lanceolata
Sutter, Rabea; Müller, Caroline

Genetic and physiological analysis of the relationship between partial resistance to clubroot and tolerance to trehalose in Arabidopsis thaliana
Gravot, Antoine; Grillet, Louis; Wagner, Geoffrey; Jubault, Mélanie; Lariagon, Christine; Baron, Cécile; Deleu, Carole; Delourme, Régine; Bouchereau, Alain; Manzanares-Dauleux, Maria J.

Influence of cultivated landscape composition on variety resistance: an assessment based on wheat leaf rust epidemics
Papaix, Julien; Goyeau, Henriette; Du Cheyron, Philippe; Monod, Hervé; Lannou, Christian

A eukaryotic-like sulfiredoxin involved in oxidative stress responses and in the reduction of the sulfinic form of 2-Cys peroxiredoxin in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120
Boileau, Céline; Eme, Laura; Brochier-Armanet, Céline; Janicki, Annick; Zhang, Cheng-Cai; Latifi, Amel

Rapid evolutionary divergence and ecotypic diversification of germination behavior in weedy rice populations
Xia, Han-Bing; Xia, Hui; Ellstrand, Norman C.; Yang, Chao; Lu, Bao-Rong

Transition from wind pollination to insect pollination in sedges: experimental evidence and functional traits
Wragg, Peter D.; Johnson, Steven D.

Plant resistance to mechanical stress: evidence of an avoidance-tolerance trade-off
Puijalon, Sara; Bouma, Tjeerd J.; Douady, Christophe J.; van Groenendael, Jan; Anten, Niels P. R.; Martel, Evelyne; Bornette, Gudrun

Allopolyploid origins of the Galeopsis tetraploids – revisiting Müntzing’s classical textbook example using molecular tools
Bendiksby, Mika; Tribsch, Andreas; Borgen, Liv; Trávníček, Pavel; Brysting, Anne K.

Automated analysis of three-dimensional xylem networks using high-resolution computed tomography
Brodersen, Craig R.; Lee, Eric F.; Choat, Brendan; Jansen, Steven; Phillips, Ronald J.; Shackel, Kenneth A.; McElrone, Andrew J.; Matthews, Mark A.

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Journal of Vegetation Science - 23 (1), 2012

Contents:

Editorial

Editors’ Award, experimental approaches, functional traits and ecoinformatics (pages 1–3)

J. Bastow Wilson, Alessandro Chiarucci, Milan Chytrý and Meelis Pärtel


Orginal Articles


Initial species pattern affects invasion resistance in experimental grassland plots (pages 4–12)

Kathryn A. Yurkonis, Brian J. Wilsey and Kirk A. Moloney


Original Articles

Fire and herbivory are not substitutable: evidence from regrowth patterns and changes in physical and chemical defences in Acacia seedlings (pages 13–23)

Jeff W. Hean and David Ward


The right relevé in the right vegetation unit: a new typicality index to reproduce expert judgement with an automatic classification programme (pages 24–32)

Jean-Claude Gégout and Christophe Coudun


Invasive non-native species attributes and invasion extent: examining the importance of grain size (pages 33–40)

Munemitsu Akasaka, Masayuki Takada, Rie Kitagawa and Hiroshi Igarashi


Responses of grassland species richness to local and landscape factors depend on spatial scale and habitat specialization (pages 41–51)

Triin Reitalu, Oliver Purschke, Lotten J. Johansson, Karin Hall, Martin T. Sykes and Honor C. Prentice


Testing general predictions of the stress gradient hypothesis under high inter- and intra-specific nurse shrub variability along a climatic gradient (pages 52–61)

Jaime Madrigal-González, José A. García-Rodríguez and Gonzalo Alarcos-Izquierdo


Unexpected mechanisms sustain the stress gradient hypothesis in a tropical alpine environment (pages 62–72)

Fabien Anthelme, Belen Buendia, Charlotte Mazoyer and Olivier Dangles


Original articles


Primary succession trajectories on pumice at Mount St. Helens, Washington (pages 73–85)

Roger del Moral, Lindsay A. Thomason, Anthony C. Wenke, Natasha Lozanoff and Mario D. Abata


Original Articles


Disturbance history of an old-growth sub-alpine Picea abies stand in the Bohemian Forest, Czech Republic (pages 86–97)

Miroslav Svoboda, Pavel Janda, Thomas A. Nagel, Shawn Fraver, Jan Rejzek and Radek Bače


Disentangling plant trait responses to livestock grazing from spatio-temporal variation: the partial RLQ approach (pages 98–113)

Dirk Wesuls, Jens Oldeland and Stéphane Dray


Patterns and controls of above-ground net primary production in meadows of Patagonia. A remote sensing approach (pages 114–126)

J. Gonzalo N. Irisarri, Martín Oesterheld, José M. Paruelo and Marcos A. Texeira


Influences of watershed geomorphology on extent and composition of riparian vegetation (pages 127–139)

Blake M. Engelhardt, Peter J. Weisberg and Jeanne C. Chambers


The influence of landscape-level heterogeneity in fire frequency on canopy composition in the boreal forest of eastern Canada (pages 140–150)

Dominic Cyr, Sylvie Gauthier and Yves Bergeron


Sudden oak death disease progression across two forest types and spatial scales (pages 151–163)

Benjamin S. Ramage, Alison B. Forrestel, Max A. Moritz and Kevin L. O'Hara


Juvenile–adult tree associations in a continental Mediterranean ecosystem: no evidence for sustained and general facilitation at increased aridity (pages 164–175)

Elena Granda, Adrián Escudero, Marcelino de la Cruz and Fernando Valladares


Individual-based trait analyses reveal assembly patterns in tree sapling communities (pages 176–186)

Marcos B. Carlucci, Helena Streit, Leandro D.S. Duarte and Valério D. Pillar


Reconstructing savanna tree cover from pollen, phytoliths and stable carbon isotopes (pages 187–197)

Julie Aleman, Bérangere Leys, Roger Apema, Ilham Bentaleb, Marc A. Dubois, Barthélémy Lamba, Judicaël Lebamba, Céline Martin, Alfred Ngomanda, Loic Truc, Jean-Michel Yangakola, Charly Favier and Laurent Bremond


Reviewers List


Reviewers List (pages 198–200)


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Journal of Vegetation Science - 22 (2-6), 2011

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Journal of Vegetation Science - 22 (2), 2011


Contents:

Original Articles

Cover plus: ways of measuring plant canopies and the terms used for them (pages 197–206)

J. Bastow Wilson


Changes in species composition of European acid grasslands observed along a gradient of nitrogen deposition (pages 207–215)

Carly Stevens, Cecilia Dupre, Cassandre Gaudnik, Edu Dorland, Nancy Dise, David Gowing, Albert Bleeker, Didier Alard, Roland Bobbink, David Fowler, Vigdis Vandvik, Emmanuel Corcket, J. Owen Mountford, Per Arild Aarrestad, Serge Muller and Martin Diekmann


Joint control by rodent herbivory and nutrient availability of plant diversity in a salt marsh–salty steppe transition zone (pages 216–224)

Juan Alberti, Alejandro Canepuccia, Jesús Pascual, Claudio Pérez and Oscar Iribarne


Savanna tree–grass competition is modified by substrate type and herbivory (pages 225–237)

Jack R. Kambatuku, Michael D. Cramer and David Ward


Species richness of woody plants in the landscapes of Central Spain: the role of management disturbances, environment and non-stationarity (pages 238–250)

E. Martín-Queller, A. Gil-Tena and S. Saura


A new net mineralizable nitrogen assay improves predictions of floristic composition (pages 251–261)

Edwin C. Rowe, Bridget A. Emmett, Simon M. Smart and Zoe L. Frogbrook


Individual and combined effects of disturbance and N addition on understorey vegetation in a subarctic mountain birch forest (pages 262–272)

O.H. Manninen, S. Stark, M.-M. Kytöviita and A. Tolvanen


Sampling procedures and species estimation: testing the effectiveness of herbarium data against vegetation sampling in an oceanic island (pages 273–280)

Pedro P. Garcillán and Exequiel Ezcurra


Bias in vegetation databases? A comparison of stratified-random and preferential sampling (pages 281–291)

Dana Michalcová, Samuel Lvončík, Milan Chytrý and Ondřej Hájek


Rates of local colonization and extinction reveal different plant community assembly mechanisms on road verges in central Spain (pages 292–302)

Enrique G. de la Riva, Miguel A. Casado, Maria Dolores Jiménez, Ignacio Mola, Margarita Costa-Tenorio and Luis Balaguer


Factors affecting species richness of tree regeneration in mixed-wood stands of central Maine (pages 303–311)

M.G. Olson and R.G. Wagner


Distinct roles of savanna and forest tree species in regeneration under fire suppression in a Brazilian savanna (pages 312–321)

Erika L. Geiger, Sybil G. Gotsch, Gabriel Damasco, M. Haridasan, Augusto C. Franco and William A. Hoffmann


Tree mortality episodes in the intact Picea abies-dominated taiga in the Arkhangelsk region of northern European Russia (pages 322–333)

Tuomas Aakala, Timo Kuuluvainen, Tuomo Wallenius and Heikki Kauhanen


The spatio-temporal forest patch dynamics inferred from the fine-scale synchronicity in growth chronology (pages 334–345)

Ichiro K. Shimatani and Yasuhiro Kubota


Identifying drivers of species compositional change in a semi-natural upland grassland over a 40-year period (pages 346–356)

Stephanie McGovern, Chris D. Evans, Peter Dennis, Clive Walmsley and Morag A. McDonald


Differences in CO2 dynamics between successional mire plant communities during wet and dry summers (pages 357–366)

Mirva Leppälä, Anna M. Laine, Marja-Liisa Seväkivi and Eeva-Stiina Tuittila


Can plant litter affect net primary production of a typical steppe in Inner Mongolia? (pages 367–376)

Jing Wang, Mengli Zhao, Walter D. Willms, Guodong Han, Zhongwu Wang and Yongfei Bai


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Journal of Vegetation Science - 22 (3), 2011




Contents:

Original Articles

From protégé to nurse plant: establishment of thorny shrubs in grazed temperate woodlands (pages 377–386)

Christian Smit and Jasper Laurens Ruifrok


Testing the effect–response framework: key response and effect traits determining above-ground biomass of salt marshes (pages 387–401)

Vanessa Minden and Michael Kleyer


Spatial patterns of species and plant traits in response to 20 years of grazing exclusion in subalpine grassland communities (pages 402–413)

Claire Deléglise, Grégory Loucougaray and Didier Alard


A regional-scale consideration of the effects of species richness on above-ground biomass in temperate natural grasslands of China (pages 414–424)

Guohong Wang, He Li, Meng An, Jian Ni, Shengjun Ji and Juan Wang


How do slow-growing, fire-sensitive conifers survive in flammable eucalypt woodlands? (pages 425–435)

J.S. Cohn, I.D. Lunt, K.A. Ross and R.A. Bradstock


Fire history of a prairie/forest boundary: more than 250 years of frequent fire in a North American tallgrass prairie (pages 436–444)

Matthew S. Allen and Michael W. Palmer


Factors influencing the seed source and sink functions of a floodplain nature reserve in the Netherlands (pages 445–456)

Hester Soomers, Judith M. Sarneel, Wouter Patberg, Steven K. Verbeek, Pita A. Verweij, Martin J. Wassen and Rudy van Diggelen


Patterns of plant species turnover along grazing gradients (pages 457–466)

Jan Peper, Florian Jansen, Dorothea Pietzsch and Michael Manthey


Successional trends in standing dead biomass in Mediterranean basin species (pages 467–474)

M.J. Baeza, V.M. Santana, J.G. Pausas and V.R. Vallejo


Structure and biomass along an Acacia zanzibarica woodland–savanna gradient in a former ranching area in coastal Tanzania (pages 475–489)

Roland Cochard and Peter J. Edwards


Tree dieback and regeneration in secondary Acacia zanzibarica woodlands on an abandoned cattle ranch in coastal Tanzania (pages 490–502)

Roland Cochard and Peter J. Edwards


Biomass compensation and plant responses to 7 years of plant functional group removals (pages 503–515)

Jennie R. McLaren and Roy Turkington


Traits of winner and loser species indicate drivers of herb layer changes over two decades in forests of NW Germany (pages 516–527)

Tobias Naaf and Monika Wulf


Trait–environment relations for dominant grasses in South African mesic grassland support a general leaf economic model (pages 528–540)

Richard Fynn, Craig Morris, David Ward and Kevin Kirkman


Functional traits relating arable weed communities to crop characteristics (pages 541–550)

Richard M. Gunton, Sandrine Petit and Sabrina Gaba


Multiple effects of land-use changes impede the colonization of open water in fen ponds (pages 551–563)

Judith M. Sarneel, Merel B. Soons, Jeroen J.M. Geurts, Boudewijn Beltman and Jos T.A. Verhoeven


Change from pre-settlement to present-day forest composition reconstructed from early land survey records in eastern Québec, Canada (pages 564–575)

S. Dupuis, D. Arseneault and L. Sirois


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Journal of Vegetation Science - 22 (4), 2011

Special Issue: Special feature: Ecoinformatics and Global Change: Edited by Jürgen Dengler, Jörg Ewald, Ingolf Kühn & Robert K. Peet


Contents:

Special Feature: Ecoinformatics


Ecoinformatics and global change – an overdue liaison (pages 577–581)

Jürgen Dengler, Jörg Ewald, Ingolf Kühn and Robert K. Peet


The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): a new resource for vegetation science (pages 582–597)

Jürgen Dengler, Florian Jansen, Falko Glöckler, Robert K. Peet, Miquel De Cáceres, Milan Chytrý, Jörg Ewald, Jens Oldeland, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Manfred Finckh, Ladislav Mucina, John S. Rodwell, Joop H. J. Schaminée and Nick Spencer


Veg-X – an exchange standard for plot-based vegetation data (pages 598–609)

Susan K. Wiser, Nick Spencer, Miquel De Cáceres, Martin Kleikamp, Brad Boyle and Robert K. Peet



Ecoinformatics: Report


ForestPlots.net: a web application and research tool to manage and analyse tropical forest plot data (pages 610–613)

Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Simon L. Lewis, Mark Burkitt and Oliver L. Phillips


Special Feature: Ecoinformatics


Addressing data property rights concerns and providing incentives for collaborative data pooling: the West African Vegetation Database approach (pages 614–620)

Thomas Janßen, Marco Schmidt, Stefan Dressler, Karen Hahn, Mipro Hien, Souleymane Konaté, Anne Mette Lykke, Ali Mahamane, Bienvenu Sambou, Brice Sinsin, Adjima Thiombiano, Rüdiger Wittig and Georg Zizka


Species distribution models as a tool for forest management planning under climate change: risk evaluation of Abies alba in Bavaria (pages 621–634)

Wolfgang Falk and Karl H. Mellert


Hypothesis-driven species distribution models for tree species in the Bavarian Alps (pages 635–646)

K. H. Mellert, V. Fensterer, H. Küchenhoff, B. Reger, C. Kölling, H. J. Klemmt and J. Ewald


Modelling potential distribution of the threatened tree species Juniperus oxycedrus: how to evaluate the predictions of different modelling approaches? (pages 647–659)

Franziska Rupprecht, Jens Oldeland and Manfred Finckh


Mapping gradients of community composition with nearest-neighbour imputation: extending plot data for landscape analysis (pages 660–676)

Janet L. Ohmann, Matthew J. Gregory, Emilie B. Henderson and Heather M. Roberts


Modelling effective thermal climate for mountain forests in the Bavarian Alps: Which is the best model? (pages 677–687)

Birgit Reger, Christian Kölling and Jörg Ewald


Landscape complexity and spatial scale influence the relationship between remotely sensed spectral diversity and survey-based plant species richness (pages 688–698)

Duccio Rocchini, Daniel McGlinn, Carlo Ricotta, Markus Neteler and Thomas Wohlgemuth


Comparing modelling approaches at two levels of biological organisation – Climate change impacts on selected Natura 2000 habitats (pages 699–710)

Torsten Bittner, Anja Jaeschke, Björn Reineking and Carl Beierkuhnlein


An indicator framework for the climatic adaptive capacity of natural ecosystems (pages 711–725)

Bálint Czúcz, Anikó Csecserits, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, György Kröel-Dulay, Rebeka Szabó, Ferenc Horváth and Zsolt Molnár


Vegetation databases as a tool to analyse factors affecting the range expansion of the forest understory herb Ceratocapnos claviculata (pages 726–740)

Nicole Voss, Dietmar Simmering, Cord Peppler-Lisbach, Walter Durka and R. Lutz Eckstein


Ecological ranges for the pH and NO3 of syntaxa: a new basis for the estimation of critical loads for acid and nitrogen deposition (pages 741–749)

G.W.W. Wamelink, P.W. Goedhart, A.H. Malinowska, J.Y. Frissel, R.J.M. Wegman, P.A. Slim and H.F. van Dobben


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Journal of Vegetation Science - 22 (5), 2011




Contents:

Original Articles


Dealing with scarce data to understand how environmental gradients and propagule pressure shape fine-scale alien distribution patterns on coastal dunes (pages 751–765)

Marta Carboni, Riccardo Santoro and Alicia T. R. Acosta


Fine-scale patterns of species and phylogenetic turnover in a global biodiversity hotspot: Implications for climate change vulnerability (pages 766–780)

Juliane Sander and Grant Wardell-Johnson


Mid-Holocene pine woodland phases and mire development – significance of dendroecological data from subfossil trees from northwest Germany (pages 781–794)

Jan Eckstein, Hanns Hubert Leuschner and Andreas Bauerochse


Pollen–vegetation relationships along steep climatic gradients in western Amazonia (pages 795–806)

Dunia H. Urrego, Miles R. Silman, Alexander Correa-Metrio and Mark B. Bush


A novel trap for quantifying the dispersal of seeds by wind (pages 807–817)

K. Morris, E. J. Raulings, W. H. Melbourne, R. Mac Nally and R. M. Thompson


A field test of the stress-gradient hypothesis along an aridity gradient (pages 818–827)

Cristina Armas, Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría and Francisco I. Pugnaire


The importance of facilitation in the zonation of shrubs along a coastal salinity gradient (pages 828–836)

Qiang He, Baoshan Cui and Yuan An


Impact of shrub canopies on understorey vegetation in western Eurasian tundra (pages 837–846)

A.M. Pajunen, J. Oksanen and R. Virtanen


Spatio-temporal variation in the effect of herbaceous layer on woody seedling survival in a Chilean mediterranean ecosystem (pages 847–855)

P. I. Becerra, V. González-Rodríguez, C. Smith-Ramírez and J. J. Armesto


Oak trees and soil interactions in Mediterranean forests: a positive feedback model (pages 856–867)

Cristina Aponte, Luis V. García, Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos, Eduardo Gutiérrez and Teodoro Maranón


Liana co-occurrence patterns in a temperate rainforest (pages 868–877)

R.A.J. Blick and K.C. Burns


Environmental control and spatial structures in peatland vegetation (pages 878–890)

R. Andersen, M. Poulin, D. Borcard, R. Laiho, J. Laine, H. Vasander and E.-T. Tuittila


Long-term vegetation changes in bogs exposed to high atmospheric deposition, aerial liming and climate fluctuation (pages 891–904)

Petra Hájková, Michal Hájek, Kamil Rybníček, Martin Jiroušek, Lubomír Tichý, Štěpánka Králová and Eva Mikulášková


Surprisingly fast recovery of biological soil crusts following livestock removal in southern Australia (pages 905–916)

Cassia F. Read, David H. Duncan, Peter A. Vesk and Jane Elith


Leaf attributes and tree growth in a tropical dry forest (pages 917–931)

R. K. Chaturvedi, A. S. Raghubanshi and J. S. Singh


Silver fir stand productivity is enhanced when mixed with Norway spruce: evidence based on large-scale inventory data and a generic modelling approach (pages 932–942)

Patrick Vallet and Thomas Pérot


Patterns of early succession on bare peat in a Swiss mire after a bog burst (pages 943–954)

Elizabeth Feldmeyer-Christe, Meinrad Küchler and Otto Wildi


Corrigendum


Corrigendum (page 955)

Reproducibility of species lists, visual cover estimates and frequency methods for recording high-mountain vegetation


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Journal of Vegetation Science - 22 (6), 2011




Contents:

Original Articles


Exploring large vegetation databases to detect temporal trends in species occurrences (pages 957–972)

Ute Jandt, Henrik von Wehrden and Helge Bruelheide


Spatial pattern and process at the plant neighbourhood scale: insights from communities dominated by the clonal grass Elymus repens (L.) Gould (pages 973–982)

Julien Pottier and André Evette


Scale-dependent determinants of plant species richness in a semi-arid fragmented agro-ecosystem (pages 983–996)

Itamar Giladi, Yaron Ziv, Felix May and Florian Jeltsch


Plant species richness responses to grazing protection and degradation history in a low productivity landscape (pages 997–1008)

R.J. Fensham, J.L. Silcock and J.M. Dwyer


Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally dry and fire-prone ecosystem (pages 1009–1020)

Burak K Pekin, Roy S Wittkuhn, Matthias M Boer, Craig Macfarlane and Pauline F Grierson


Independent effects of arbuscular mycorrhiza and earthworms on plant diversity and newcomer plant establishment (pages 1021–1030)

Susanne Wurst, Kristin Gebhardt and Matthias C. Rillig


Plant–ungulate interaction: goat gut passage effect on survival and germination of Mediterranean shrub seeds (pages 1031–1037)

J.M. Mancilla-Leytón, R. Fernández-Alés and A. Martín Vicente


Disentangling facilitation and seed dispersal from environmental heterogeneity as mechanisms generating associations between savanna plants (pages 1038–1048)

Jana Schleicher, Katrin M. Meyer, Kerstin Wiegand, Frank M. Schurr and David Ward


Tree dynamics and co-existence in the montane–sub-alpine ecotone: the role of different light-induced strategies (pages 1049–1061)

Aitor Ameztegui and Lluís Coll


Isolation affects tree-scale epiphytic lichen community structure on New Zealand mountain beech trees (pages 1062–1071)

Hannah L. Buckley


Vegetation convergence during early succession on coal wastes: a 6-year permanent plot study (pages 1072–1083)

Josu G. Alday, Rob H. Marrs and Carolina Martínez-Ruiz


Fire history and vegetation recovery in two raised bogs at the Baltic Sea (pages 1084–1093)

Ülle Sillasoo, Minna Väliranta and Eeva-Stiina Tuittila


Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) fire scars reveal new details of a frequent fire regime (pages 1094–1104)

Michael C. Stambaugh, Richard P. Guyette and J. M. Marschall


Effect of forest canopy composition on soil nutrients and dynamics of the understorey: mixed canopies serve neither vascular nor bryophyte strata (pages 1105–1119)

Xavier Cavard, Yves Bergeron, Han Y.H. Chen and David Paré


Lack of tree layer control on herb layer characteristics in a subtropical forest, China (pages 1120–1131)

Sabine Both, Teng Fang, Martin Böhnke, Helge Bruelheide, Christian Geißler, Peter Kühn, Thomas Scholten, Stefan Trogisch and Alexandra Erfmeier


Effect of increased Populus cover on Abies regeneration in the Picea–feathermoss boreal forest (pages 1132–1142)

Marie-Lyne Arbour and Yves Bergeron


Forum Article


Does phylogenetic distance aid in detecting environmental gradients related to species composition? (pages 1143–1148)

Heather T. Root and Peter R. Nelson


Book Reviews


The Biology of Deserts. By D. Ward (pages 1149–1150)

B. Amat


Remote sensing of vegetation: principles, techniques and applications. By Hamlyn G. Jones and Robin A Vaughan (pages 1151–1153)

Ranjani Wasantha Kulawardhana


Erratum


ERRATUM (page 1154)

L. Kulmala, J. Pumpanen, P. Hari and T. Vesala


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Fire Ecology - 7 (1-3), 2011

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Fire Ecology - 7 (1), 2011



Contents:

Special Issue: 4th International Fire Congress: Fire as a Global Process
Francisco Seijo, Robert W. Gray, and Sandra Rideout-Hanzak

Australia - A Model System for the Development of Pyrogeography
David M.J.S. Bowman and Brett P. Murphy

Speculations about the Effects of Fire and Lava Flows on Human Evolution
Michael J. Medler

The Use of Fire in the Cerrado and Amazonian Rainforests of Brazil: Past and Present
Vânia R. Pivello

The Present Status of Fire Ecology, Traditional Use of Fire, and Fire Management in Mexico and Central America
Dante Arturo Rodríguez-Trejo, Pedro Arturo Martínez-Hernández, Héctor Ortiz-Contla, Manuel Román Chavarría-Sánchez, and Faustino Hernández-Santiago

Personal Perspectives on Commercial Versus Communal African Fire Paradigms when Using Fire to Manage Rangelands for Domestic Livestock and Wildlife in Southern and East African Ecosystems
Winston S.W. Trollope

Burning at the Edge: Integrating Biophysical and Eco-Cultural Fire Processes in Canada's Parks and Protected Areas
Clifford A. White, Daniel D.B. Perrakis, Victor G. Kafka, and Timothy Ennis

Your Fire Management Career - Make It Count!
Dale D. Wade


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Fire Ecology - 7 (2), 2011



Contents:

Message from the Editor
Jan W. van Wagtendonk

Giant Sequoia Regeneration in Groves Exposed to Wildfire and Retention Harvest
Marc D. Meyer and Hugh D. Safford

Seed Bank Changes with Time-since-Fire in Florida Rosemary Scrub
Jennifer J. Navarra, Nancy Kohfeldt, Eric S. Menges, and Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio

The Effects of Conifer Encroachment and Overstory Structure on Fuels and Fire in an Oak Woodland Landscape
Eamon A. Engber, J. Morgan Varner III, Leonel A. Arguello, and Neil G. Sugihara

Fire Frequency, Area Burned, and Severity: A Quantitative Approach to Defining a Normal Fire Year
James A. Lutz, Carl H. Key, Crystal A. Kolden, Jonathan T. Kane, and Jan W. van Wagtendonk

Vegetation Responses to Changing Fire Regimes in a Rocky Mountain Forest
Thomas A. Minckley and Robert K. Shriver

Wildfires Alter Rodent Community Structure across Four Vegetation Types in Southern California, USA
Cheryl S. Brehme, Denise R. Clark, Carlton J. Rochester, and Robert N. Fisher

Comparison of Burn Severities of Consecutive Large-Scale Fires in Florida Sand Pine Scrub Using Satellite Imagery Analysis
David R. Godwin and Leda N. Kobziar

Landscape-Scale Vegetation Change following Fire in Point Reyes, California, USA
Alison B. Forrestel, Max A. Moritz, and Scott L. Stephens

Amphibian Responses to Wildfire in the Western United States: Emerging Patterns from Short-Term Studies
Blake R. Hossack and David S. Pilliod

Burn Severity and Non-Native Species in Yosemite National Park, California, USA
Kristen M. Kaczynski, Susan W. Beatty, Jan W. van Wagtendonk, and Kristin N. Marshall


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Fire Ecology - 7 (3), 2011



Contents:

Message from the Editor
James K. Agee

The Relation of Forests and Forest Fires by Gifford Pinchot, with an Introduction by James K. Agee
Gifford Pinchot

Post-Fire Growth Strategies of Resprouting Florida Scrub Vegetation
Andrea J. Maguire and Eric S. Menges

A Summary of Fire Frequency Estimates for California Vegetation before Euro-American Settlement
Kip M. Van de Water and Hugh D. Safford

Fire Effects on Perennial Vegetation in the Western Colorado Desert, USA
Robert J. Steers and Edith B. Allen

Long-Term Post-Fire Effects on Spatial Ecology and Reproductive Output of Female Agassiz’s Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) at a Wind Energy Facility near Palm Springs, California, USA
Jeffrey E. Lovich, Joshua R. Ennen, Sheila V. Madrak, Caleb L. Loughran, Katherin P. Meyer, Terence R. Arundel, and Curtis D. Bjurlin

Historical Stand-Replacing Fire in Upper Montane Forests of the Madrean Sky Islands and Mogollon Plateau, Southwestern USA
Ellis Q. Margolis, Thomas W. Swetnam, and Craig D. Allen

Short- and Long-Term Effects on Fuels, Forest Structure, and Wildfire Potential from Prescribed Fire and Resource Benefit Fire in Southwestern Forests, USA
Molly E. Hunter, Jose M. Iniguez, and Leigh B. Lentile

Book Review
Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History
Jan W. van Wagtendonk


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Acta Botanica Croatica - 70 (1), 2011

Contents:

Morphogenesis, volume and number of hop (Humulus lupulus L.) glandular trichomes, and their influence on alpha-acid accumulation in fresh bracts of hop cones
Siniša Srečec, Vesna Zechner Krpan, Sanja Marag, Igor Špoljarić, Ivka Kvaternjak, Gordan Mršić

Early post-fire changes of Pinus brutia forests (Amanos Mountains, Turkey)
Necattin Turkmen, Atabay Duzenli

Orchid diversity of the cape of Kamenjak (Istria, Croatia)
Nina Vuković, Slavko Brana, Božena Mitić

Effects of selected groundwater chemical traits on a salt marsh community
Mahmut Kilinc, Hamdy Guray Kutbay, Erkan Yalcin, Ali Bilgin, Kenan Avci, Solmaz Gencoglu Topaloglu

Cytochemical and ultrastructural observations of anthers and pollen grains in Lathyrus undulatus Boiss.
Filiz Vardar, Meral Unal

Mericarp micromorphology and anatomy of Salvia hedgeana Donmez, S. huberi Hedge and S. rosifolia Sm. (section Salvia Hedge, Lamiaceae)
Hatice N. Buyukkartal, Ahmet Kahraman, Hatice Colgecen, Musa Dogan, Ersin Karabacak

Biological activity of red alga Laurencia brandenii
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Comparative effects of 4-Cl-IAA and kinetin on photosynthesis, nitrogen metabolism and yield of black cumin (Nigella sativa L.)
Shoukat S. Shah

Lichen flora of Žumberak-Samoborsko gorje Nature Park, NW Croatia
Anamarija Partl

Achene slime content in some taxa of Matricaria L. (Asteraceae)
Huseyin Inceer

Pimpinella tragium Vill. subsp. lithophila (Schischk.) Tutin (Apiaceae), a new taxon in Croatian flora
Sandro Bogdanović, Mirko Ruščić


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