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Volume 12 (2) 2005

• Decomposition of coarse woody debris originating by clearcutting of an old-growth conifer forest

  Jack E. JANISCH, Mark E. HARMON, Hua CHEN, Becky FASTH & Jay SEXTON, Department of Forest Science, 321 Richardson Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5752, USA.

• The impact of peatland afforestation on plant and bird diversity in southeastern Québec

  Daniel LACHANCE & Claude LAVOIE, Centre de recherche en aménagement et développement, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1K 7P4, Canada, e-mail: claude.lavoie@esad.ulaval.ca
  André DESROCHERS, Centre de recherche en biologie forestière, Université Laval, Québec, Québec G1K 7P4, Canada.

• Competitive effects of the forest tent caterpillar on the gallers and leaf-miners of trembling aspen

  Tomas ROSLIN, Metapopulation Research Group, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, P.O. Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1), FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada, e-mail: tomas.roslin@helsinki.fi
  Jens ROLAND, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada.

• Functional response to land use change in grasslands: Comparing species and trait data

  Regina LINDBORG & Ove ERIKSSON, Department of Botany, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, e-mail: regina.lindborg@botan.su.se

• Indirect effects of grazing on the establishment of Pinus sylvestris and Pinus

  Sandrine DEBAIN, Cemagref, Écologie appliquée des écosystèmes boisés, 24 Avenue des Landais, BP 50085, 63172 Aubière Cedex, France, and CNRS, Centre d?Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 05, France.
  Thomas CURT, Cemagref, Écologie appliquée des écosystèmes boisés, 24 Avenue des Landais, BP 50085, 63172 Aubière Cedex, France, e-mail: thomas.curt@cemagref.fr
  Jacques LEPART, CNRS, Centre d?Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 05, France.

• Effect of sex and female reproductive status on seasonal home range size and stability in rural red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)

  Caroline HENRY, 2C2A-CERFE, Maison de la Recherche, 08240 Boult-aux-Bois, France, and CEPE-UPR/CNRS 9010, 23 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg cedex 2, France, e-mail: caroline.henry@freesbee.fr
  Marie-Lazarine POULLE, 2C2A-CERFE, Maison de la Recherche, 08240 Boult-aux-Bois, France.
  Jean-Jacques ROEDER, CEPE-UPR/CNRS 9010, 23 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg cedex 2, France.
  

• Nitrogen mineralization in epiphytic soils of an old-growth Fitzroya cupressoides forest, southern Chile

  Cecilia A. PÉREZ, Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 114-D, Santiago, Chile, e-mail: cperez@bio.puc.cl
  Rafael GUEVARA, MCEB, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile.
  Martín R. CARMONA, Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 114-D, Santiago, Chile.
  Juan J. ARMESTO, Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 114-D, Santiago, Chile, and MCEB, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile.

• Functional and numerical responses of ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla) to changing seismic exploration practices in Alberta's boreal forest

  Erin M. BAYNE, Stan BOUTIN, Boyan TRACZ & Kerri CHAREST, Integrated Landscape Management Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada, e-mail: bayne@ualberta.ca

• Fine-scale spatial patterns of recruitment in red oak (Quercus rubra): What matters most, abiotic or biotic factors?

  Daniel GARCÍA, Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, Universidad de Oviedo, C/ Rodrigo Uría s/n, Oviedo, E-33071, Spain, e-mail: danielgarcia@uniovi.es
  Gilles HOULE, Département de biologie, Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, Québec G1K 7P4, Canada.

• The effects of body size, age, and food intake during pregnancy on reproductive traits of a viviparous snake, Thamnophis ordinoides

  Angie GIGNAC & Patrick T. GREGORY, Department of Biology, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3020, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3N5, Canada, e-mail: viper@uvic.ca

• Crab spiders show mixed effects on flower-visiting bees and no effect on plant fitness components

  Reuven DUKAS, Animal Behaviour Group, Department of Psychology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada, e-mail: dukas@mcmaster.ca
  Douglass H. MORSE, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Box G-W, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.

• Invasional meltdown potential: Facilitation between introduced plants and mammals on French Mediterranean islands

  Karen BOURGEOIS, Carey M. SUEHS, Eric VIDAL & Frédéric MÉDAIL, Institut Méditerranéen d?Écologie et de Paléoécologie, UMR CNRS 6116, Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille III), Europôle Méditerranéen de l'Arbois, Avenue Philibert, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence, cedex 04, France, e-mail: karen.bourgeois@univ.u-3mrs.fr

• Seed dormancy and germination in threatened Iberian Coincya (Brassicaceae) taxa

  Miguel A. COPETE, José M. HERRANZ & Pablo FERRANDIS, Department of Plant Production and Agricultural Technology, ETS Ingenieros Agrónomos, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, 02071 Albacete, Spain, e-mail: Miguel.Copete@uclm.es

• Patterns of bird species abundance in relation to granular insecticide use in the Canadian prairies

  Pierre MINEAU & Connie M. DOWNES, National Wildlife Research Centre, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, Carleton University Campus, 1125 Colonel By Drive (Raven Road), Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H3, Canada, e-mail: Pierre.Mineau@ec.gc.ca
  David Anthony KIRK, Aquila Applied Ecologists, C.P. 87, Carlsbad Springs, Ontario K0A 1K0, Canada.
  Erin BAYNE, Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Sciences Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada.
  Myriam CSIZY, 456 Kensington Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 6G9, Canada.
  

• Survival and growth of the forage grass Festuca rubra in naturally and artificially devegetated sites in a sub-arctic coastal marsh

  Pamela C. O & Peter M. KOTANEN, Department of Botany, University of Toronto, 3349 Mississauga Road North, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada, e-mail: po@utm.utoronto.ca
  Kenneth F. ABRAHAM, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, 300 Water Street, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 8M5,Canada.