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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Forest Ecology ScienceDirect and Management ELSEVIER Forest Ecology and Management 252 (2007) v—vi www.elsevier.com/locate/foreco Contents Regular articles Vertical structure and spatial associations of dominant tree species in an old-growth temperate forest Z. Hao (Shenyang, PR China), J. Zhang (Shenyang, PR China; Beijing, PR China and Georgetown, SC, USA), B. Song (Georgetown, SC, USA), J. Ye (Shenyang, PR China) and B. Li (Shenyang, PR China and Beijing, PR China) we Os Effects of environment and progeny on biomass estimations of five hybrid poplar families grown at three contrasting sites across Europe S.Y. Dillen, N. Marron (Wilrijk, Belgium), C. Bastien (Olivet, France), L. Ricciotti, F. Salani, M. Sabatti (Viterbo, Italy), M.P.C. Pinel, A.M. Rae, G. Taylor (Southampton, UK) and R. Ceulemans (Wilrijk, Belgium) Patchiness of prescribed burns in dry sclerophyll eucalypt forests in South-eastern Australia T.D. Penman (Beecroft, Australia and Melbourne, Australia), R.P. Kavanagh (Beecroft, Australia), D.L. Binns (Coffs Harbour Jetty, Australia) and D.R. Melick (Beecroft, Australia and Kunming, China). Litter N and P dynamics in two secondary tropical dry forests after vial ition of nutrient : avaltalilliay constraints J. Campo, E. Solis and M.G. Valencia (México, Mexico) eae Effects of initial planting density on branch development in 4-year- “old plantation grown Eucalyptus pilularis and Eucalyptus deiz iana trees P.J. Alcorn (Canberra, Australia), P. Pyttel (Freiburg, Germany), J. Bauhus (Canberra, Australia and Freiburg, Germany), R.G.B. Smith, D. Thomas (Coffs Harbour, Australia), R. James and A. Nicotra (Canberra, Australia) Ecological impacts of different harvesting scenarios for temperate evergreen rain forest in southern Chile—A simulation experiment N. Riiger, A.G. Gutiérrez, W.D. Kissling (Leipzig, Germany), J.J. Armesto (Santiago, Chile) and A. Huth (Leipzig, Germany) . Influence of initial stand density and genotype on longitudinal variation in modulus of elasticity for 17-year-old Pinus radiata M.J. Waghorn, E.G. Mason and M.S. Watt (Christchurch, New Zealand) . . Sart arenes Cattle grazing facilitates tree regeneration in a conifer forest with palatable bamboo understory A. Darabant (Vienna, Austria and Bumthang, Bhutan), P.B. Rai (Bumthang, Bhutan), K. Tenzin (Vienna, Austria and Thimphu, Bhutan), W. Roder (Bumthang, Bhutan) and G. Gratzer (Vienna, Austria) Decline of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) stands in the Spanish Penne: Role of management, Meek dynamics and pathogens J. Oliva (Solsona, Spain) and C. Colinas (Solsona, Spain and Lleida, Spain) Long-lasting legacy of forest succession and forest management: Characteristics of coarse woody debris in an evergreen twoad: lezw ed: forest of Eastern China E.-R. Yan, X.-H. Wang (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China), J.-J. Huang (Columbus, OH, USA), F.-R. Zeng and L. Gong ‘Shanghai, People’s Republic of China) Tree regeneration and microclimate in a liana and bamboo- sesn ing on soubdectiians Atlantic Forest P.I. Campanello, M. Genoveva Gatti (Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), A. Ares (Albany, OR, USA), L. Montti (Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and G. Goldstein (Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and Coral Gables, FL, USA) sass of slash reinforcement of strip roads on rutting and soil compaction on a moist fine-grained soil . Eliasson (Gidea, Sweden) and I. Wasterlund (Umea, Sweden). , dae controlling soil organic carbon sequestration under exotic tree oe itations: A case study using the CO2Fix wedi’ in snllnoaiiian E hic i B. Lemma (Shashemene, Ethiopia and Uppsala, Sweden), D.B. Kleja, M. Olsson and I. Nilsson (Uppsala, Sweden) . : Modeling mortality of second-rotation loblolly pine plantations in the Piedmont/Upper Coastal Plain and Lower Coastal Plain of the salle U wited States D. Zhao, B. Borders, M. Wang and M. Kane (Georgia, USA) .... The effects of disturbance intensity on temporal and spatial patterns of herb coleauiian in a southern New England mixed- ‘ie forest M.L. Aikens, D. Ellum (New Haven, CT, USA), J.J. McKenna, M.J. Kelty (Amherst, MA, USA) and M.S. Ashton (New Haven, CT, USA)... Effects of deer debarking on masting and trunk radial growth of Hondo spruce, Picea jezoensis var. hondoensis, in a subalpine forest of central Japan E. Shibata (Nagoya, Japan) Intra- and interspecific patterns of day roost selection by three species of forest-+ -duclling bats in Sentai British Columbia M.J. Vonhof (Kalamazoo, MI, USA) and J.C. Gwilliam (Nelson, Canada) . A typology of stand structure and dynamics of Quaking aspen in northwestern Colorado B.P. Kurzel, T.T. Veblen and D. Kulakowski (Boulder, CO, USA). Anthropogenic edges: Their influence on the American three-toed onesies ker (Picoides dorsalis) foraging behaviour in managed boreal forests of Queb ec C. Gagné, L. Imbeau and P. Drapeau (Québec, Canada) Spatial habitat modeling of American chestnut at Mammoth CaveN ational Park S. Fei (Lexington, KY, USA), J. Schibig (Gallatin, TN, USA) and M. Vance (Cookeville, TN, USA) Accuracy of forest inventory mapping: Some implications for boreal forest management 1.D. Thompson, S.C. Maher, D.P. Rouillard, J.M. Fryxell and J.A. Baker (Ontario, Canada) Bryophyte community response to silvicultural opening size in a managed northern hardwood forest J.M. Shields, C.R. Webster and J.M. Glime (Michigan, USA) vi Contents The impact of deer on relationships between tree growth and mortality in an old-growth beech-maple forest Z.T. Long, T.H. Pendergast IV and W.P. Carson (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) Productivity of ectomycorrhizal and selected edible saprotrophic fungi in pine forests of the pre-Pyrenees mountains, Spain: Predictive equations for forest management of mycological resources J. Martinez de Aragoén, J.A. Bonet, C.R. Fischer (Solsona, Spain) and C. Colinas (Solsona, Spain and Lleida, Spain) Biomass and litterfall in a native lowland rainforest: Marelongue Reserve, La Réunion Island, Indian Ocean S. Kirman (Aix-en-Provence, France), D. Strasberg, V. Grondin (Saint-Denis, France), F. Colin (Noumea, France), J. Gilles (Saint-Denis, France) and J.D. Meunier (Aix-en-Provence, France) . az iy “