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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ecience @oinecr- Forest Ecology and Management Forest Ecology and Management 232 (2006) v—vi www.elsevier.comlocate/foreco Contents Review Evaluating the conceptual tools for forest biodiversity conservation and their implementation in the U.S. L.A. Schulte (Ames, IA, USA), R.J. Mitchell (Newton, GA, USA), M.L. Hunter Jr. (Orono, ME, USA), J.F. Franklin (Seattle, WA, USA), R. Kevin McIntyre (Newton, GA, USA) and B.J. Palik (Grand Rapids, MN, USA) Regular articles Effects of enhanced tree growth rate on the decay capacities of three saprotrophic wood-fungi M. Edman, R. Moller and L. Ericson (Umea, Sweden) Mounding site preparation for forest restoration: Survival and short term growth response in Quercus robur L. seedlings M. Léf (Alnarp, Sweden), D. Rydberg (Kristianstad, Sweden) and A. Bolte (Goettingen, Germany) Short-term effects of reduced-impact logging on eastern Amazon fauna C. Azevedo-Ramos (Belém, Brazil and Para, Brazil), O. de Carvalho Jr. and B.D. do Amaral (Belém, Brazil) Tree mortality from fire and bark beetles following early and late season prescribed fires in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest D.W. Schwilk (Three Rivers, CA, USA), E.E. Knapp (Redding, CA, USA), S.M. Ferrenberg (Three Rivers, CA, USA), J.E. Keeley (Three Rivers CA, USA and Los Angeles, CA, USA) and A.C. Caprio (Three Rivers, CA, USA) Woody debris stocks and fluxes during succession in a dry tropical forest J.M. Eaton and D. Lawrence (Charlottesville, VA, USA) A method for landscape analysis of forestry guidelines using bird habitat models and the Habplan harvest scheduler C. Loehle (Naperville, IL, USA), P. Van Deusen (Lowell, MA, USA), T.B. Wigley (Clemson, SC, USA), M.S. Mitchell (Missoula, MT, USA), S.H. Rutzmoser (Bethlehem, PA, USA), J. Aggett (Lowell, MA, USA), J.A. Beebe (Kalamazoo, MI, USA) and M.L. Smith (Missoula, MT, USA). . . Effects of wild coffee management on species diversity in the Afromontane rainforests of Ethiopia F. Senbeta and M. Denich (Bonn, Germany) Factors affecting the uncertainty of sinks and stocks of carbon in Finnish forests soils and vegetation M. Peltoniemi (Vantaa, Finland), T. Palosuo (Joensuu, Finland), S. Monni (VTT, Finland) and R. Makipaa (Helsinki, Finland) Arbuscular mycorrhizal soil infectivity in a stand of the wetland tree Pterocarpus officinalis along a salinity gradient L. Saint-Etienne, S. Paul, D. Imbert, M. Dulormne, F. Muller, A. Toribio (Guadeloupe, France), C. Plenchette (Dijon, France) and A.M. Ba (Guadeloupe, France) Soil property variations in relation to topographic aspect and vegetation community in the south-eastern highlands of Ethiopia F. Yimer (Shashemane, Ethiopia and Uppsala, Sweden), S. Ledin (Uppsala, Sweden) and A. Abdelkadir (Shashemane, Ethiopia) Long-term patterns and impacts of grey squirrel debarking in Lady Park Wood young-growth stands (UK) E.P. Mountford (Peterborough, UK) Comparative resprouting response of Savanna woody plant species following harvesting: the value of persistence K.S. Neke, N. Owen-Smith and E.T.F. Witkowski (Gauteng, South Africa) Stand development and growth responses of 1- and 3-year-old natural upland hardwoods to silvicultural treatments J.L. Schuler (Monticello, AR, USA) and D.J. Robison (Raleigh, NC, USA) Pasture, tree and soil evolution in silvopastoral systems of Atlantic Europe M.R. Mosquera-Losada, E. Fernandez-Nuifiez and A. Rigueiro-Rodriguez (Lugo, Spain) Negative impact of ozone on the stem basal area increment of mature Norway spruce in south Sweden P.E. Karlsson (Géteborg, Sweden), G. Orlander (Vaxjé, Sweden), O. Langvall (Lammhult, Sweden), J. Uddling (Géteborg, Sweden), U. Hjorth, K. Wiklander, B. Areskoug and P. Grennfelt (Goteborg, Sweden) Sensitivity of growth of Scots pine, Norway spruce and silver birch to climate change and forest management in boreal conditions E. Bricefio-Elizondo, J. Garcia-Gonzalo, H. Peltola, J. Matala and S. Kellomaki (Joensuu, Finland) Growth, productivity, aboveground biomass, and carbon sequestration of pure and mixed native tree plantations in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica A. Redondo-Brenes and F. Montagnini (New Haven, CT, USA) Snag longevity in relation to wildfire and postfire salvage logging R.E. Russell, V.A. Saab (Bozeman, MT, USA), J.G. Dudley (Boise, ID, USA) and J.J. Rotella (Bozeman, MT, USA) Comparison of five canopy cover estimation techniques in the western Oregon Cascades A.C.S. Fiala, §.L. Garman and A.N. Gray (Corvallis, OR, USA) Effects of timing of cleaning and residual density on regeneration of juvenile aspen stands T. Mulak, S.M. Landhausser and V.J. Lieffers (Edmonton, Canada) Using chemical markers to detect root disease in stressed ponderosa pine stands with a low incidence of disease in eastern Oregon R.G. Kelsey, W.G. Thies (Corvallis, OR, USA) and C.L. Schmitt (LaGrande, OR, USA) vi Contents NPK fertilization at planting of three hybrid poplar clones in the boreal region of Alberta A. DesRochers (Amos, Canada), R. van den Driessche (Victoria, Canada) and B.R. Thomas (Boyle, Canada and Edmonton, Canada) Publisher’s Acknowledgement