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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Ste e . F t Ecol °.” ScienceDirect —_— Management ELSEVIER Forest Ecology and Management 234 (2006) v—vi www.elsevier.com/locate/foreco Contents Regular articles Classifying regenerating forest stages in Amaz6nia using remotely sensed images and a neural network T.M. Kuplich (Sado José dos Campos, Brazil) Individual tree crown and stand development in Pinus taeda under different fertilization and irrigation regimes T.J. Albaugh, H.L. Allen (Raleigh, NC, USA) and T.R. Fox (Blacksburg, VA, USA) Long-term success of stump sprouts in high-graded baldcypress—water tupelo swamps in the Mississippi delta R.F. Keim, J.L. Chambers, M.S. Hughes (Baton Rouge, LA, USA), L.D. Dimov (Normal, AL, USA), W.H. Conner (Georgetown, SC, USA), G.P. Shaffer (Hammond, LA, USA), E.S. Gardiner (Stoneville, MS, USA) and J.W. Day Jr. (Baton Rouge, LA, USA) Long-term research impacts on seedling community structure and composition in a permanent forest plot G.R. Goldsmith (Maine, USA), L.S. Comita (Athens, GA, USA), L.L. Morefield (Boone, NC, USA) R. Condit (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) and S.P. Hubbell (Athens, GA, USA) Understorey protection harvest expedites recolonisation of boreal forest stands by North American red squirrels J.T. Fisher and S.M. Bradbury (Alberta, Canada) An integrated model for snag and downed woody debris decay class transitions M.C. Vanderwel, J.R. Malcolm and S.M. Smith (Toronto, Canada) Litterfall ‘» the hardwood forest of a minor alluvial-floodplain C.E. Meier (Pineville, LA, USA), J.A. Stanturf (Athens, GA, USA) and E.S. Gardiner (Stoneville, MS, USA) Effects of domestication on genetic diversity in Eucalyptus globulus T.H. Jones, D.A. Steane, R.C. Jones (Tasmania, Australia), D. Pilbeam (Mount Gambier, Australia), R.E. Vaillancourt and B.M. Potts (Tasmania, Australia) Variation in aboveground tree live biomass in a central Amazonian Forest: Effects of soil and topography C.V. de Castilho, W.E. Magnusson, R.N.O. de Aratijo, R.C.C. Luizao, F.J. Luizao, A.P. Lima and N. Higuchi (Manaus, Brazil) Survival, growth and wood specific gravity of interspecific hybrids of Pinus strobus and P. wallichiana grown in Ontario P. Lu and R.W. Sinclair (Ontario, Canada) Growth of bamboo Fargesia qginlingensis and regeneration of trees in a mixed hardwood-conifer forest in the Qinling Mountains, China W. Wang, S.B. Franklin (Memphis, TN, USA), Y. Ren (Shaanxi, China) and J.R. Ouellette (Memphis, TN, USA) The roles of nitrogen and phosphorus in increasing productivity of western hemlock and western redcedar plantations on northern Vancouver Island L.L. Blevins, C.E. Prescott (Vancouver, Canada) and A. Van Niejenhuis (Saanichton, Canada) Influences of thinning, prescribed burning, and wildfire on soil processes and properties in southwestern ponderosa pine forests: A retrospective study K.C. Grady and S.C. Hart (Flagstaff, AZ, USA) Release potential of giant sequoia following heavy suppression: 20-year results R.A. York (Georgetown, CA, USA), J.J. Battles (Berkeley, CA, USA) and R.C. Heald (Georgetown, CA, USA) Changes in stand structure and composition after restoration treatments in low elevation dry forests of northeastern Oregon A. Youngblood (LaGrande, OR, USA), K.L. Metlen (Missoula, MT, USA) and K. Coe (LaGrande, OR, USA) Environmental and allometric drivers of tree growth rates in a north Australian savanna L.D. Prior, B.W. Brook (Northern Territory, Australia), R.J. Williams (Australian Capital Territory, Australia), P.A. Werner (Northern Territory, Australia and Australian Capital Territory, Australia), C.J.A. Bradshaw and D.M.J.S. Bowman (Northern Territory, Australia) Sustainability of a non-timber forest product: Effects of alternative leaf harvest practices over 6 years on yield and demography of the palm Chamaedorea radicalis B.A. Endress (La Grande OR, USA), D.L. Gorchov and E.J. Berry (Oxford, OH, USA) Contribution of microarthropods to the decomposition of needle litter in a Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica D. Don) plantation S.J. Joo, M.H. Yim and K. Nakane (Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan) Assessing climatic suitability of Pinus radiata (D. Don) for summer rainfall environment of southwest China H. Yan (Beijing, PR China), H. Bi (Beecroft, Australia), R. Li (Sichuan Province, PR China), R. Eldridge (Beecroft, Australia), Z. Wu (Sichuan Province, PR China), Y. Li (Beijing, PR China) and J. Simpson (Beecroft, Australia) Growth and survival of Pinus taeda in response to surface and subsurface tillage in the southeastern United States C.A. Carlson, T.R. Fox (Blacksburg, VA, USA), S.R. Colbert, D.L. Kelting, H.L. Allen and TJ. Albaugh (Raleigh, NC, USA), Forest Nutrition Cooperative Nutrient fluxes in incident rainfall, throughfall, and stemflow in adjacent primary and secondary forests of the Gran Sabana, southern Venezuela N. Dezzeo and N. Chacon (Caracas, Venezuela) Soil N cycling in harvested and pristine Boreal forests and peatlands C.J. Westbrook (Saskatchewan, Canada), K.J. Devito (Alberta, Canada) and C.J. Allan (Charlotte, NC, USA) vi Contents Nutrient and [CO,] elevation had synergistic effects on biomass production but not on biomass allocation of white birch seedlings S. Zhang (Thunder bay, Canada and Beijing, China), Q.-L. Dang (Thunder bay, Canada) and X. Yii (Jilin, China) Studies on the seed biology of 100 native species of trees in a seasonal moist tropical forest, Panama, Central America A. Sautu (Lexington, KY, USA and Panama City, Panama), J.M. Baskin, C.C. Baskin (Lexington, KY, USA) and R. Condit (Panama City, Panama) .. . . Climatic control of primary forest structure and DBH-height allometry in Northeast China X. Wang, J. Fang, Z. Tang and B. Zhu (Beijing, China) Changes in water yield after a sequence of perturbations and forest management practices in an Eucalyptus globulus Labill. watershed in Northern Spain C. Fernandez, J.A. Vega, J.M. Gras and T. Fonturbel (Pontevedra, Spain) Twentieth century forest—grassland ecotone shift in Montana under differing livestock grazing pressure T.T. Sankey, C. Montagne, L. Graumlich, R. Lawrence and J. Nielsen (Bozeman, MT, USA) Historic fire regime dynamics and forcing factors in the Boston Mountains, Arkansas, USA R.P. Guyette (Columbia, MO, USA), M.A. Spetich (Hot Springs, AR, USA) and M.C. Stambaugh (Columbia, MO, USA) Response of soil surface CO,—C flux to land use changes in a tropical cloud forest (Mexico) C. Adolfo Campos (Veracruz, Mexico) Response of the post-fire bryophyte community to salvage logging in boreal mixedwood forests of northeastern Alberta, Canada S.M. Bradbury (Alberta, Canada) Effects of experimental forestry treatments on a Maine amphibian community D.A. Patrick (Orono, ME, USA), M.L. Hunter Jr. (Orono, ME, USA) and A.J.K. Calhoun (USA) Direct seeding to restore rainforest species: Microsite effects on the early establishment and growth of rainforest tree seedlings on degraded land in the wet tropics of Australia S.J. Doust, P.D. Erskine and D. Lamb (Brisbane, Australia) Potential canopy interception of nitrogen in the Pacific Northwest, USA J.M. Klopatek, M.J. Barry (Tempe, AZ, USA) and D.W. Johnson (Reno, NV, USA) Response of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) to fire and fire surrogate fuel reduction treatments in a southern Appalachian hardwood forest C.H. Greenberg (Asheville, NC, USA), D.L. Otis (Ames, IA, USA) and T.A. Waldrop (Clemson, SC, USA) Long-term effects of site preparation and fertilization on total soil CO, efflux and heterotrophic respiration in a 33-year-old Pinus taeda L. plantation on the wet flats of the Virginia Lower Coastal Plain : M.C. Tyree, J.R. Seiler, W.M. Aust, D.A. Sampson and T.R. Fox (Blacksburg, VA, USA) Erratum Erratum to “Vegetation change and forest regeneration on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska following a spruce beetle outbreak, 1987-2000” [For. Ecol. Manage. 227 (2006) 233-246] T.V. Boucher and B.R. Mead (Anchorage, AK, USA)