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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ecience joiner: Forest Ecology and Management ELSEVIER Forest Ecology and Management 230 (2006) v www.elsevier.com/locate/foreco Contents Review Multi-criteria decision analysis in natural resource management: A critical review of methods and new modelling paradigms G.A. Mendoza (Urbana, IL, USA) and H. Martins (Lisbon, Portugal) Regular articles Restoring dry Afromontane forest using bird and nurse plant effects: Direct sowing of Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata seeds R. Aerts (Leuven, Belgium and Mekelle, Ethiopia), W. Maes (Leuven, Belgium), E. November (Mekelle, Ethiopia and Leuven, Belgium), A. Negussie (Mekelle, Ethiopia), M. Hermy and B. Muys (Leuven, Belgium) Forest edge quantification by line intersect sampling in aerial photographs P.-A. Esseen, K.U. Jansson and M. Nilsson (Umea, Sweden) Landscape hierarchies influence riparian ground-flora communities in Wisconsin, USA P.C. Goebel, K.S. Pregitzer (Houghton, MI, USA) and B.J. Palik (Grand Rapids, MN, USA) The effects of mechanical fuel reduction treatments on the activity of bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) infesting ponderosa pine C.J. Fettig (Davis, CA, USA), J.D. McMillin, J.A. Anhold (Flagstaff, AZ, USA), S.M. Hamud, R.R. Borys, C.P. Dabney and S.J. Seybold (Davis, CA, Effects of burning season and frequency on saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) flowering and fruiting M.E. Carrington and J.J. Mullahey (Immokalee, FL, USA) Aspen canopy removal and root trenching effects on understory vegetation G.W. Powell (Quesnel, Canada) and E.W. Bork (Alberta, Canada) One-day rate measurements for estimating net nitrification potential in humid forest soils D.S. Ross, G. Fredriksen, A.E. Jamison, B.C. Wemple (Burlington, VT, USA), S.W. Bailey (Campton, NH, USA), J.B. Shanley (Montpelier, VT, USA) and G.B. Lawrence (Troy, NY, USA) Linking wolves to willows via risk-sensitive foraging by ungulates in the northern Yellowstone ecosystem W.J. Ripple and R.L. Beschta (Corvallis, OR, USA) History of fire and Douglas-fir establishment in a savanna and sagebrush—grassland mosaic, southwestern Montana, USA E.K. Heyerdahl (Missoula, MT, USA), R.F. Miller (Corvallis, OR, USA) and R.A. Parsons (Missoula, MT, USA) Retention-tree groups in clear-cuts: Do they constitute ‘life-boats’ for spiders and carabids? K. Matveinen-Huju, J. Niemela, H. Rita and R.B. O’ Hara (Finland) Structure and regeneration dynamics of dominant tree species along altitudinal gradient in a dry valley slopes of the Bhutan Himalaya P. Wangda and M. Ohsawa (Chiba, Japan) Trends in land cover change and isolation of protected areas at the interface of the southern boreal mixedwood and aspen parkland in Alberta, Canada J.E. Young, G.A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, S.J. Hannon (Edmonton, Canada) and R. Chapman (Fort Saskatchewan, Canada) Ground-layer plant community responses to even-age and uneven-age silvicultural treatments in Wisconsin northern hardwood forests C.C. Kern, B.J. Palik (Grand Rapids, MN, USA) and T.F. Strong (Retired) Tree communities and structural dynamics in miombo (Brachystegia—Julbernardia) woodland, Tanzania I. Backéus (Uppsala, Sweden), B. Pettersson, L. Strémquist (Uppsala, Sweden) and C. Ruffo (Morogoro, Tanzania) Woody vegetation structure and composition along a protection gradient in a miombo ecosystem of western Tanzania T. Banda, M.W. Schwartz (Davis, CA, USA) and T. Caro (Davis, CA, USA and Arusha, Tanzania) Effects of structural complexity enhancement on eastern red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus) populations in northern hardwood forests H.C. McKenny, W.S. Keeton and T.M. Donovan (Burlington, VT, USA) Effects of logging, liana tangles and pasture on seed fate of dry forest tree species in Central Brazil D.L.M. Vieira and A. Scariot (Brasilia, Brazil) Corrigendum Corrigendum to “Thinning affects water use efficiency of hardwood saplings naturally recruited in a Pinus radiata D. Don plantation” [For. Ecol. Manage. 222 (2006) 116-122] C.M. D’A lessandro (Potenza, Italy), A. Saracino (Portici (Napoli), Italy) and M. Borghetti (Potenza, Italy)