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Forest Ecology and Management Forest Ecology and Management 185 (2003) 341-342 www.elsevier.com/locate/foreco Contents of Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 185 VOLUME 185, ISSUES 1-2 3 NOVEMBER 2003 Special Issue: Early-Successional Forests and Shrubland Habitats in the Northeastern United States: Critical Habitats Dependent on Disturbance Preface Description, historical abundance, and current status Temporal patterns of vascular plant diversity in southeastern New Hampshire forests L.F. Howard and T.D. Lee (Durham, NH, USA) Shrubland longevity and rare plant species in the northeastern United States R.E. Latham (Rose Valley, PA, USA) Scale and frequency of natural disturbances in the northeastern US: implications for early successional forest habitats and regional age distributions C.G. Lorimer (Madison, WI, USA) and A.S. White (Orono, ME, USA) Abundance, distribution, trends, and ownership patterns of early-successional forests in the northeastern United States R.T. Brooks (Amherst, MA, USA) Taxonomic affiliates Relative importance of early-successional forests and shrubland habitats to mammals in the northeastern United States T.K. Fuller and S. DeStefano (Amherst, MA, USA) Status and conservation of shrubland birds in the northeastern US R. Dettmers (Hadley, MA, USA) Shrubland Lepidoptera of southern New England and southeastern New York: ecology, conservation, and management D.L. Wagner (Storrs, CT, USA), M.W. Nelson (Storrs, CT, USA and Westborough, MA, USA) and D.F. Schweitzer (Port Norris, NJ, USA) Restoration and management in contemporary landscapes Are pre-Columbian conditions relevant baselines for managed forests in the northeastern United States? J.A. Litvaitis (Durham, NH, USA) Interpreting and conserving the openland habitats of coastal New England: insights from landscape history D.R. Foster and G. Motzkin (Petersham, MA, USA) Conceptual ecological models for the Long Island pitch pine barrens: implications for managing rare plant communities M.J. Jordan (Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA), W.A. Patterson III (Amherst, MA, USA) and A.G. Windisch (Trenton, NJ, USA) State efforts to promote early-successional habitats on public and private lands in the northeastern United States J.D. Oehler (Westborough, MA, USA) Options for managing early-successional forest and shrubland bird habitats in the northeastern United States R.M. DeGraaf (Amherst, MA, USA) and M. Yamasaki (Durham, NH, USA) Avian communities on utility rights-of-ways and other managed shrublands in the northeastern United States J.L. Confer and S.M. Pascoe (Ithaca, NY, USA) Utilizing the USDA PLANTS database to predict exotic woody plant invasiveness in New Hampshire B. Frappier and R.T. Eckert (Durham, NH, USA) doi: 10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00479-1 342 Contents of Volume 185 VOLUME 185, ISSUE 3 18 NOVEMBER 2003 Regular articles Nesting of the black stork (Ciconia nigra) and white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) in relation to forest management R. Rosenvald and A. Lo6hmus (Tartu, Estonia) The structural dynamics of managed uneven-aged conifer stands in the Italian eastern Alps G. Grassi (Bologna, Italy), G. Minotta (Turin, Italy), R. Giannini (Florence, Italy) and U. Bagnaresi (Bologna, Italy) Influence of elk grazing on soil properties in Rocky Mountain National Park D. Binkley, F. Singer, M. Kaye and R. Rochelle (Fort Collins, Co, USA) Stability of soil organic matter in Eucalyptus regnans forests and Pinus radiata plantations in south eastern Australia N.D. O’Brien, P.M. Attiwill (Vic., Australia) and C.J. Weston (Creswick, Australia) Soil respiration, fine root production, and microbial biomass in cottonwood and loblolly pine plantations along a nitrogen fertilization gradient K.-H. Lee and S. Jose (Milton, FL, USA) Understory plant species composition 30-50 years after clearcutting in southeastern Wyoming coniferous forests P.C. Selmants and D.H. Knight (Laramie, WY, USA) Managing woodlands for income maximisation in western Queensland, Australia: clearing for grazing versus timber production T.J. Venn (St. Lucia, Australia), R.L. McGavin (Salisbury, Australia) and H.M. Rogers (Barcaldine, Australia) Diversity and succession of adventive and indigenous vascular understorey plants in Pinus radiata plantation forests in New Zealand E.G. Brockerhoff (Christchurch, New Zealand), C.E. Ecroyd (Rotorua, New Zealand), A.C. Leckie (Christchurch, New Zealand) and M.O. Kimberley (Rotorua, New Zealand) Association between severity of prescribed burns and subsequent activity of conifer-infesting beetles in stands of longleaf pine B.T. Sullivan (Pineville, LA, USA), C.J. Fettig (Davis, CA, USA), W.J. Otrosina, M.J. Dalusky and C. Wayne Berisford (Athens, GA, USA) Contents of Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 185