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Volume 17 (4) 2010

• Assessing patterns of nestedness in stream insect assemblages along environmental gradients

  Jani HEINO, Finnish Environment Institute, Natural Environment Centre, P.O. Box 413, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, jani.heinoATymparisto.fi
  Heikki MYKRÄ, Finnish Environment Institute, Freshwater Centre, P.O. Box 413, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
  Jaana RINTALA, North Ostrobothnia Regional Environment Centre, Veteraanikatu 1, P.O. Box 124, FI-90101 Oulu, Finland.

• Use of lichen as a roosting substrate by Perimyotis subflavus, the tricolored bat, in Nova Scotia

  Joseph A. POISSANT, Hugh G. BRODERS & Greg M. QUINN, Department of Biology, Saint Mary's University, 923 Robie Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3, Canada, hugh.brodersATsmu.ca

• Estimating the energetic significance of basking behaviour in a temperate-zone turtle

  Grégory BULTÉ & Gabriel BLOUIN-DEMERS, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie-Curie, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada, gblouinATuottawa.ca

• Effects of introduced Canada geese (Branta canadensis) on native plant communities of the Southern Gulf Islands, British Columbia

  Miriam ISAAC-RENTON & Joseph R. BENNETT, Department of Forest Sciences and Centre for Applied Conservation Research, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada.
  Rebecca J. BEST, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, Storer Hall, Davis, California 95616, USA.
  Peter ARCESE, Department of Forest Sciences and Centre for Applied Conservation Research, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada, peter.arceseATubc.ca

• Contrasting effects of deer browsing on oviposition preference, neonate survival and potential fecundity of a galling insect

  Ken TABUCHI, Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), 7 Hitsujigaoka, Toyohira, Sapporo, Hokkaido 062-8516, Japan, and National Agricultural Research Center for Tohoku Region, 4 Akahira, Shimo-kuriyagawa, Morioka, Iwate 020-0198, Japan, gallmidge@gmail.com
  Akira UEDA & Kenichi OZAKI, Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), 7 Hitsujigaoka, Toyohira, Sapporo, Hokkaido 062-8516, Japan.

• Habitat selection as the mechanism for thermoregulation in a northern population of massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus)

  Daniel S. HARVEY & Patrick J. WEATHERHEAD, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.

• Scale dependence of tree trunk spider diversity patterns in vertical and horizontal space

  Maxim LARRIVÉE & Christopher M. BUDDLE, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, 21 111 Lakeshore Road, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec H9X 3V9, Canada.

• Effects of encounters with fish on activity of sedentary benthic invertebrates

  Tarini DUGGAL, Department of Biology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada.
  Robert L. BAKER, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada, robert.baker@utoronto.ca
  Nicholas C. COLLINS, Department of Biology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada.

• The phosphorus legacy of former agricultural land use can affect the production of germinable seeds in forest herbs

  Lander BAETEN, Margot VANHELLEMONT & Pieter DE FRENNE, Department of Forest and Water Management, Laboratory of Forestry, Ghent University, eraardsbergsesteenweg 267, BE-9090 Gontrode (Melle), Belgium, Lander.Baeten@UGent.be
  Martin HERMY, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape, K.U.Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, BE-3001 Leuven, Belgium.
  Kris VERHEYEN, Department of Forest and Water Management, Laboratory of Forestry, Ghent University, Geraardsbergsesteenweg 267, BE-9090 Gontrode (Melle), Belgium.

• Evaluation of microcrustacean (Cladocera, Chydoridae) biodiversity based on sweep net and surface sediment samples

  Liisa NEVALAINEN, Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondseestrasse 9, 5310 Mondsee, Austria, liisa.nevalainenAToeaw.ac.at