Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Sci. enceDirP ect Fo—rest E lo Management ELSEVIER Forest Ecology and Management 245 (2007) \ www.elsevier.com locate fore Contents Regular articles Do invasive plants threaten the Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh? S.R. Biswas, J.K. Choudhury, A. Nishat and M.M. Rahman (Dhaka, Bangladesh) Spatial dependence and individual-tree growth models. |. Characterising spatial dependence J.C. Fox (Victoria, Australia and Queensland, Australia), H. Bi (New South Wales, Australia) and P.K. Ades (Victoria, Australia) Spatial dependence and individual-tree growth models. I]. Modelling spatial dependence J.C. Fox (Victoria, Australia and Queensland, Australia), H. Bi (New South Wales, Australia) and P.K. Ades (Victoria, Australia) Above-ground productivity and litter decomposition in a tidal freshwater forested wetland on Bull Island, SC, USA M. Ozalp (Clemson, SC, USA), W.H. Conner (Georgetown, SC, USA) and B.G. Lockaby (Auburn, AL, USA) Biotic and abiotic influences on wind disturbance in forests of NW Pennsylvania, USA A.M. Evans, A.E. Camp, M.L. Tyrrell and C.C. Riely (New Haven, CT, USA) Topographic and temporal patterns in tree seedling establishment, growth, and survival among masting species of southern New England mixed-deciduous forests B.R. Frey, M.S. Ashton (New Haven, CT, USA), J.J. McKenna (Amherst, MA, USA), D. Ellum (New Haven, CT, USA) and A. Finkral (Flagstaff, AZ USA) Carbon storage by ecological service forests in Zhejiang Province, subtropical China J. Zhang, Y. Ge, J. Chang, B. Jiang, H. Jiang (Nanjing, PR China and Hangzhou, PR China), C. Peng (Montréal, Canada), J. Zhu, W. Yuan, L. Qi and S. Yu (Hangzhou, PR China) Evergreen broad-leaved forest in Eastern China: Its ecology and conservation and the importance of resprouting in forest restoration X.-H. Wang (Shanghai, China), M. Kent (Devon, UK) and X.-F. Fang (Shanghai, China) Effects of selective logging on the abundance, regeneration and short-term survival of Caryecar costaricense (Caryocaceae) and Peltogyne purpurea (Caesalpinaceae), two endemic timber species of southern Central America J. Lobo, G. Barrantes (San Pedro, Costa Rica), M. Castillo, R. Quesada (Cartago, Costa Rica), T. Maldonado, E.J. Fuchs (Athens, GA, USA), S. Solis and M. Quesada (México, Mexico) Modeling crown structural responses to competing vegetation control, thinning, fertilization, and Swiss needle cast in coastal Douglas-fir of the Pacific Northwest, USA A.R. Weiskittel, D.A. Maguire (Corvallis, OR, USA) and R.A. Monserud (Portland, OR, USA) Relationship between Cornus florida L. and calcium mineralization in two southern Appalachian forest types E.J. Holzmueller, S. Jose (Gainesville, FL, USA) and M.A. Jenkins (Gatlinburg, TN, USA) Early growth of hybrid aspen (Populus * wettsteinii Himet-Ahti) plantations on former agricultural lands in Estonia A. Tullus, H. Tullus, A. Vares and A. Kanal (Tartu, Estonia) Genetic differentiation in endangered Heptacodium miconioides Rehd. based on ISSR polymorphism and implications for its conservation Z. Jin and J. Li (Linhai, PR China) Predicting the impacts of forest management on woodland caribou habitat suitability in black spruce boreal forest G.S. Brown (Guelph, Canada), WJ. Rettie (Manitoba, Canada), R.J. Brooks (Guelph, Canada) and F.F. Mallory (Ontario, Canada) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities influence growth and phosphorus concentration of woody plants species from the Atlantic rain forest in South Brazil D. Pasqualini, A. Uhlmann and S.L. Stiirmer (Blumenau, Brazil) JUN 30