Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDir. ect F mete Ec ol his £58 Management ELSEVIER Forest Ecology and Management 240 (2007) v www.elsevier.com/locate/foreco Contents Review Tree bark as a non-timber forest product: The effect of bark collection on population structure and dynamics of Garcinia lucida Vesque N.M. Guedje (Yaounde, Cameroon and Brussels, Belgium), P.A. Zuidema, H. During (Utrecht, The Netherlands), B. Foahom (Yaounde, Cameroon) and J. Lejoly (Brussels, Belgium) Regular articles Colonisation of clearfelled coupes by rainforest tree species from mature mixed forest edges, Tasmania, Australia J. Tabor (Hobart, Australia), C. McElhinny (Australia), J. Hickey (Hobart, Australia) and J. Wood (Australia) Roads, fire and aggressive competitors: Determinants of bird distribution in subtropical production forests M. Maron and S. Kennedy (West End, Australia) Long-term responses of ecosystem components to stand thinning in young lodgepole pine forest. IV. Relative habitat use by mammalian herbivores T.P. Sullivan (Vancouver, Canada), D.S. Sullivan, P.M.F. Lindgren and D.B. Ransome (Summerland, Canada) Comparison of image and rapid field assessments of riparian zone condition in Australian tropical savannas K. Johansen, S. Phinn (Brisbane, Australia), I. Dixon, M. Douglas and J. Lowry (Darwin, Australia) Reduced ant diversity along a habitat regeneration gradient in the southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest R.R. Silva, R.S. Machado Feitosa (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and F. Eberhardt (Blumenau, Brazil) Using Landsat images to detect oak decline in the Mark Twain National Forest, Ozark Highlands C. Wang, Z. Lu and T.L. Haithcoat (Columbia, MO, USA) Effects of feathermoss removal, thinning and fertilization on lodgepole pine growth, soil microclimate and stand nitrogen dynamics N.A. Startsev, V.J. Lieffers (Canada) and D.H. McNabb (Alberta, Canada) Coarse woody debris and canopy cover in an old-growth Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forest from the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico S.L. Stephens, D.L. Fry (Berkeley, CA, USA), E. Franco-Vizcaino (Baja, Mexico), B.M. Collins and J.M. Moghaddas (Berkeley, CA, USA) Litterfall, litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in a subtropical natural oak forest and managed plantation in northeastern India R.R. Pandey, G. Sharma (Imphal, India), S.K. Tripathi and A.K. Singh (Varanasi, India) Dendroclimatic analysis of Betula ermanii forests at their upper limit of distribution in Changbai Mountain, Northeast China D. Yu (Shenyang City, China), G.G. Wang (Clemson, SC, USA), L. Dai and Q. Wang (Shenyang City, China) Satellite-based estimation of biomass carbon stocks for northeast China’s forests between 1982 and 1999 K. Tan, S. Piao (Beijing, China), C. Peng (Montreal, Canada) and J. Fang (Beijing, China) Relationships between soil and foliar nutrients in young densely planted mini-plots of Pinus radiata and Cupressus lusitanica MLR. Davis, G. Coker (Christchurch, New Zealand), R.L. Parfitt (Palmerston North, New Zealand), R. Simcock (Auckland, New Zealand), P.W. Clinton (Christchurch, New Zealand), L.G. Garrett (Rotorua, New Zealand) and M.S. Watt (Christchurch, New Zealand) Organic matter composition and dynamics in a northern hardwood forest ecosystem 15 years after clear-cutting D.A.N. Ussiri and C.E. Johnson (Syracuse, NY, USA) Growth responses of subalpine fir (Abies fargesii) to climate variability in the Qinling Mountain, China H. Dang (Wuhan, PR China and Beijing, PR China), M. Jiang, Q. Zhang (Wuhan, PR China) and Y. Zhang (Wuhan, PR China and Beijing, PR China). . . . Growth and physiological response of eastern white pine seedlings to partial cutting and site preparation J.-F. Boucher (Québec, Canada), P.Y. Bernier (Sainte-Foy, Canada), H.A. Margolis and A.D. Munson (Québec, Canada) Growth and structure development of semi-natural larch-spruce-fir (Larix olgensis—Picea jezoensis—Abies nephrolepis) forests in northeast China: 12-year results after thinning X. Lei, Y. Lu (Beijing, PR China), C. Peng (Montreal, Canada), X. Zhang (Beijing, PR China), J. Chang (Hangzhou, PR China) and L. Hong (Beijing, PR China) Overstory and shrub effects on natural regeneration processes in native Pinus radiata stands M.J. O’Brien, K.L. O’Hara, N. Erbilgin and D.L. Wood (Berkeley, CA, USA) Effects of vegetation control on nutrient removal and Fagus orientalis, Lipsky regeneration in the western Black Sea Region of Turkey O. Yildiz, M. Sarginci, D. Esen (Diizce, Turkey) and K. Cromack Jr. (Corvallis, OR, USA)