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Contents VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1, MARCH 2001 Daily rhythms of emergence of small invertebrates inhabiting shallow subtidal zones: A comparative investigation at four locations in Japan Masayuki Sai A new index of interspecific competition for replacement and additive designs A. Christina Williams and Brian C. McCarthy Life history elasticity and the population-level effect of p-nonylphenol on DaphnA ia I 1 and Junko Nakanishi Measuring fig foraging frequency of the Yakushima macaque by using automatic cameras Tat Some effects of inclement weather conditions on the survival and condition of bull-headed shrike nestlings Masaoki Taka 127 Biomass diversity and stability of food webs in aquatic ecosystems Ichiro Aoki and Takahisa Mizushima Effects of head shape variation on growth, metamorphosis and survivorship in larval salamanders (Hynobius retardatus) Norio Yamai Dynamic steady state of patch-mosaic tree size structure of a mixed dipterocarp forest regulated by local crowding Takashi Kohyama, Eizi Suzuki, Tukirin Partomihardyjo ai Germination and water dispersal of seeds from a threatened plant species Per Hiroaki Ikeda and Kazuyuki Itoh Diurnal changes in needle gas exchange in alpine Pinus pumila during snow-melting and Summer seasons Effects of isolates of ectomycorrhizal fungi and endophytic Mycelium radicis atrovirens that were dominant in soil from disturb1 ed sites on growth of Be> tula ply atyphyllJa7 r. japonica seedl1 ings Yasushi Hashimoto and Mitsuro Hyakumachi Hoarding behaviors of two wood mouse species: Different preference for acorns of two Fagaceae species Takuya Shimada Within-tree variation in density and survival of leafminers on oak Quercus dentata Satoshi Shibata, Takahide A. Ishida, Fumika Soeya, Naho Morino, Kunikichi Yoshida. Hiroaki Sate Guild structures of seed insects in relation to acorn development in two oak species Hiroshi Fukumoto and Hisashi Kajimura Note and Comment The color of noise and the evolution of dispersal Justin Travis Contents Note and Comment Effects of nutrients and arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization on the growth of Salix gracilistyla seedlings in a nutrient-poor fluvial bar VOLUME 16, NUMBER 2, JUNE 2001 Influence of leaf litter quality on the colonizati-o n and consumption of stream inverteb1 rate shredders Le Non-symbiotic nitrogen fixation in forest ecosystems You han Son Benefits of mass reduction for commuting flight with heavy food load in Leach’s storm-petrel, ) ; Oceanodroma lencorhoa Habitat use and diet of two stream gobies of the genus RAinogobii] s in south-western Shikoku, Japan Shin Sone. Mikio Inoue and Yasunobu Yanagisawa - ; : Floaters as intraspecific brood parasites in the grey starling Stwrnus Takashi Sai Fish abundance and habitat relationships in forest and grassland streams, northern Hokkaido, Japan Mish iO) lnoue and Shiger1 Nakane Seasonal growth and reproductive ecology of two threatened aquatic macrophytes, Blyxa aubertii and B. echinosperma (Hydrocharitaceae), in irrigation ponds of south-western Japan Fallen leaves and unpalatable plants as alternative foods for sika deer under food limitation Hiroshi Takahashi and Koichi Kaji Variations in sexual and asexual reproduction of Scirpus mariqueter along an elevational gradient Reconstruction of local vegetation in AD 915 at an oligotrophic mire in northern Japan from pollen, present-day vegetation and tephra data Chih Yonebayashi Mutualistic relationships between phytoplankton and bacteria caused by carbon excretion from phytoplankton Yasuaki Aota and Hisao Nakajima Effects of snow cover on the social and foraging behavior of the great tit Parus Masahiko Nakamura and Noriko Shindo Seasonal changes in and effects of familiarity on agonistic behaviors of rat-like hamsters , ] (Cricetutis viton) Jian-Xu Zhang, Zhi-Bin Zhang and Zu-W ang Wang Is invertebrate shredding critical for collector invertebrates? A test of the shredder—collector facilitation hypothesis N. Usio, M. Konishi and S. Nakano Effects of body size and predators on intracohort competition in wild and domesticated juvenile salmon in a stream Ulrich G. Reinhardt, Toshiaki Yamamoto and Shigeru Nakano Contents Influence of slope aspect on Mediterranean woody formations: Comparison ofa semiarid and an arid site in Israel Marcelo Sternberg and Maxim Shoshany High performance of CO,-temperature gradient chamber newly built for studying the grl] ob|a l ] war- ming, efft ect on~ a plant popula] tion Jae-Seok Lee, Tetsuyuki Usami and Takehisa Otkawa VOLUME 16, NUMBER 3, SEPTEMBER 2001 fr CWO COMpetlitive systeMs Via density depet lent migration ‘Cr i and Osc / Ni Kish id. 7d TIrte e shhaappe,e , ffoorreests t ssttrruuccttuurree aannd d ddiivveresirtys iotoff y d rosopdhrosoiphillid id con in}i ty: CoComm parison 1 bbeett ween boreal and temperate birch forests Experimentally increased insectivorous bird density results in a reduction of caterpillar density and leaf damage to Pyrenean oak Juan José Sanz Ant defence system: A mechanism organizing individual responses into efficient collective behavior Hiroshi Sakata Variable correspondence of female host preference and larval performance in a phytophagous ladybird beetle EI ] (€ oleoptera: Coccinellidae) Tropic cascading effects of predatory fish on leaf litter processing in a Japanese stream Motoharu Konishi, Shigeru Nakano and Tomoya Iwata Difterenc e in mic rohabitat-re lated regeneration patterns betw een two subalpine conifers, riesii, on Mount Hayachine, northern Honshu, Japan Growth character Kiyoshi Woody plant establishment during the early stages of volcanic succession on Mount Usu, northern Japan Masahiro Haruki and Shiro Tsuy. Feedback regulation of constant leaf standing crop in S$ hoiana grasslands succession in California chaparral: Changes in diversity, density, cover and biomass Spatial heterogenity in a grassland community: Use of Yoshimichi H CENTURY ecosystem model application for quantifying vegetation dynamics in shifting cultivation areas: A case study from Rampa Forests, Eastern Ghats (India) V. Krishna Prasad. Yogesh Kant and K.V.S. Badarinath Morphology and growth of deciduous and evergreen broad-leaved saplings under different light conditions in a Chinese beech forest with dense bamboo undergrowth Contents Liana diversity and host relationships in a tropical evergreen forest in the Indian Eastern Ghats ) Chitrai el Chittibabu and Narayanswamy Parthasarathy Effects of clear-cutting and burning on characteristics of nitrogen mineralization and microbes in the forest soil ofa Pinus massoniana plantation in Southern China Famao Lui, Hiroto Toda and Kikuo Haibara Habitat use and diversity of waterbirds in a coastal lagoon around Lake Biwa, Japan Akihisa Hattori and Satoshi Mae Value of fallow farmlands as summer habitats for waterbirds in a Japanese rural area Masahiro Fujioka, Jan es WW Armacost Ir, Hoshikc Yoshida and Taku Maeda Patterns of bird abundance and habitat use in rice fields of the Kanto Plain, central Japan laku Maeda Note and Comment Forest biomass estimation at regional and global levels, with special reference to China's forest biomass Jing-Yun Fang and Zhang Ming Wang Note and Comment Ecological study of pseudoscorpion fauna in the soil organic layer in managed and abandoned secondary forests Tetsuya Yamamoto, Nobukazu Nakagoshi and Yoshifumi Touyama Ecological Research Award for 2000 Corrigendum VOLUME 16, NUMBER 4, DECEMBER 2001 Special Submission from the Winner of the 4" Denzaburo Miyadi Award Female multiple mating as a genetic bet-hedging strategy when mate choice criteria are unreliable Original Article Gap formation, microsite variation and the conifer seedling occurrence in a subalpine old-growth forest, central Japan egetation—environment relationship in serpentine soils of Tuscany, Italy Chi] arucci, Duccio Rocchini, Claudio Leonzio and Vincenzo De Doi Adaptive significance OF vegetative sprouting for a tropical Canopy tree, iaceae), in a peat swamp forest in Central Kalimantan Organic chemical laa nd ] nutrient dynamics in decompo| sing bl eech l} eaf }l itter in rel1 ation to fungal ingrowth and succession during 3-year decomposition processes in a cool temperate deciduous forest in Japan Takashi Osono and Hiri Quantitative evaluation of atmospheri CO, sink into forest soils from the tropics to the boreal zone during the past three decades Kaneyuki Nakane Growth and reproductive characteristics of an aquatic macrophyte Ofte/ia (Hydrocharitaceae) Meiyi Jiang and Yasuro K. Stable nitre yen and carbon isotope ratios as migration trac (the orange form), in the Lake Biwa water system Atsushi Maruyama, Yoshihiro Yamada, Masah Alterations in the grazing activities of cased ] cadd] istlyi. l1 arsvsa e in r” esponse to var-i ations in pr: eda' tion risk and resource level Naotoshi Kuhara, Shigeru Nakano and Hitoshi Miyasaka Overlapping territory of a benthophagous fish, Goniist tus (Teleostei: Cheilodactylidae) Skewed reproductive success among male white-spotted charr land-locked by an erosion control dam: Implications for effective population size Koji Maekawa, Yusuke Koseki, Kei'ichiro Iguchi and Food habit ndangered jose frow. Raw ood habits of an endangered Japanese rog, Kana Toshiaki Hirai and Masafumi Matsui Foraging and breeding performance of Japanese cormorants in relation to prey type Akiko Kato, Yutaka Watan Relation between age—sex classes and dietary selection of wild Japanese monkeys Naoki Agetsuma Interspecific variation and ontogenetic change in antiherbivore defense in myrmecophytic Vaca Takao [tino and Effects of food rewards offered by ant—plant Macaranga on the colony size of ants Takao Itino, Takao Itioka, Aya Hatada and Abang A. Ha Cospeciation of ants and plants Takao Itino, StuartJ . Davies, Hideko Tada, Yoshihiro Hieda, Mika Inoguchi, Takao Itioka, : ( Tamiji [none Note and Comment Pine wilt disease as promising causal agent of the mass mortality of Pznus armandii Franch. var. amamiana (Koidz.) Hatusima in the field Katsunori Nakamura, Mitsuteru Akiba and Seiichi Kanet. Note and Comment Nutrient compositions of acorns and horse chestnuts in relation to seed-hoarding Note and Comment Regional differences in the morphology of a shrub to deer herbivory? Mayura Takada, Masahiko Asada and Tadashi Mi Corrigendum VOLUME 16, NUMBER 5, DECEMBER 200! Preface Grassland ecosystems Community diversity and invasion resistance: An experimental test in a grassland ecosystem and a review of comparable studies Andy Hector, Kim Dobson, Asher Minns, Ellen Bazeley-White and John Hartley Lawton Vill Contents Design and analysis of biodiversity field experiments Doug L.7 S H. De ULS( hme 72 Assessing the functional implications of soil biodiversity in ecosystems Thomas Hefin Jones and Mark Alexander Bradford Forest ecosystems Local neighborhood effects on long-term survival of individual trees in a neotropical forest Stephen P. Hubbell, Jorge A. Ahumada, Richard Condit and Robin B. Foster Long-distance dispersal of tree seeds by wind Henry S. Horn, R. A. N. Nathan and Sarah R. Kaplan Stochasticity of species assemblage of canopy trees and understorey plants in a temperature secondary forest created by major disturbances Tsutom Hiura Successional diversity and forest ecosystem function John P. Caspersen and Stephen W. Pacala Energy, nutrients and food webs Functional succession of bacterioplankton on the basis of carbon source utilization ability by BIOLOG plates Kazuaki Matsui, Man-Sig June, Masaya Ueki and Zen’ichiro Kawabata Species-specific foraging behavior of birds in a riparian forest Masashi Murakami and Shigeru Nakano Quantitative food webs of dipteran leafminers and their parasitoids in Argentina Graciela R. Valladares, Adriana Salvo and H. CharlesJ . Godfray Feeding: groups| , lifetyy}p es and the :g lobal ecolog8y) of termites Paul Eggleton and Ichiro Tayasu Templates of food—habitat resources for the organization of soil animals in temperate and tropical forests Hiroshi Takeda and Takuya Abe An ecosystem organization model explaining diversity at an ecosystem level: Coevolution of primary producer and decomposer Norio Yamamura. Shigeo Yachi and Masahiko Higashi Conservation implications Towards a theoretical basis for ecosystem conservation lan Douglas Rozdilsky, Jerome Chave, Simon Asagr Levin and David Tilman Referees 997 Author index 999 Subject index 1001