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Contents Volume 16 Number 1 February 2002 EDITORIAL K. GASTON & D. ROBINSON ESSAY REVIEW Climate change in the Arctic: using plant functional types in a meta-analysis of field experiments C. F. DORMANN &S. J. WOODIN ORIGINAL ARTICLES Thermoregulatory ecology of a solitary bat, Myotis evotis, roosting in rock crevices B. J. CHRUSZCZ & R. M. R. BARCLAY Ecosystem respiration in two Mediterranean evergreen Holm Oak forests: drought effects and decomposition dynamics M. REICHSTEIN, J. D. TENHUNEN, O. ROUPSARD, J.-M. OURCIVAL, S. RAMBAL, S. DORE & R. VALENTINI Metabolic recovery in the Desert Iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis) following activities of varied intensity and duration T. V. HANCOCK & T. T. GLEESON Predicting daytime carbon isotope ratios of atmospheric CO, within forest canopies N. BUCHMANN, J. R. BROOKS & J. R. EHLERINGER Limits to food intake by the Prairie Vole: effects of time for digestion C. Y. ZYNEL & B. A. WUNDER Variation in nitrogen-use traits within and between five Carex species growing in the lowland mires of northern Japan T. NAKAMURA, S. UEMURA & K. YABE Juvenile Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) with relatively high standard metabolic rates have small metabolic scopes C. J. CUTTS, N. B. METCALFE & A. C. TAYLOR Environmentally induced variation in floral traits affects the mating system in Datura wrightii E. ELLE & J.D. HARE Antisymmetry in male fiddler crabs and the decision to feed or breed A. E. PRATT& D. K. MCLAIN Calcium oxalate crystals in leaves of Pancratium sickenbergeri: constitutive or induced defence? N. RUIZ, D. WARD & D. SALTZ Interactions of body shape, body size and stroke-acceleration patterns in costs of underwater swimming by birds J.R. LOVVORN & G. A. LIGGINS Fine root demography and morphology in response to soil resource availability among xeric and mesic sandhill tree species J. F. ESPELETA & L. A. DONOVAN No significant relationship exists between seedling relative growth rate under nutrient limitation and potential tissue toxicity J. S. ALMEIDA-CORTEZ & W. SHIPLEY Host recognition in a desert mistletoe: early stages of development are influenced by substrate and host origin T. RODL & D. WARD TECHNICAL REPORTS Offspring size—number strategies: experimental manipulation of offspring size in a viviparous lizard (Lacerta vivipara) M. OLSSON, E. WAPSTRA & C. OLOFSSON The potential costs of flipper-bands to penguins S. JACKSON & R. P. WILSON Instructions for Authors Volume 16 Number 2 April 2002 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Interspecific carbon exchange and cost of interactions between basidiomycete mycelia in soil and wood J.M. WELLS & L. BODDY Respiratory carbon loss of calcareous grasslands in winter shows no effects of 4 years’ CO, enrichment M. VOLK & P. A. NIKLAUS Metabolic rate and aggressiveness between Brown Trout populations K. LAHTI, H. HUUSKONEN, A. LAURILA & J. PITIRONEN The energetics of Gentoo Penguins, Pygoscelis papua, during the breeding season R. M. BEVAN, P. J. BUTLER, A. J. WOAKES & I. L. BOYD Hormonal modification of resource sharing in the clonal plant Fragaria chiloensis P. ALPERT, C. HOLZAPFEL & J. M. BENSON Root life spans of four grass species from habitats differing in nutrient availability T. A. J. VAN DER KRIFT & F. BERENDSE Forward attack modes of aquatic feeding garter snakes M. E. ALFARO Relationships between physical and chemical attributes of congeneric seedlings: how important is seedling defence? M. E. HANLEY & B. B. LAMONT Soil dilution as a surrogate for root competition: effects on growth of seedlings of Australian tropical rainforest trees D. J. METCALFE, P. J. GRUBB & S. S. METCALFE Moa ghosts exorcised? New Zealand’s divaricate shrubs avoid photoinhibition C.J. HOWELL, D. KELLY & M. H. TURNBULL Active brood care in Cancer setosus (Crustacea: Decapoda): the relationship between female behaviour, embryo oxygen consumption and the cost of brooding J. A. BAEZA & M. FERNANDEZ The specialist seed predator Bruchidius dorsalis (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) plays a crucial role in the seed germination of its host plant, Gleditsia japonica (Leguminosae) K. TAKAKURA Differences in seed germination responses may promote coexistence of four sympatric Piper species M. I. DAWS, D. F. R. PD. BURSLEM, L. M. CRABTREE, P. KIRKMAN, C. E. MULLINS & J. W. DALLING TECHNICAL REPORTS Measuring drag without a force transducer: a terminal velocity assay C. LOUDON & J. ZHANG Repeatability estimates do not always set an upper limit to heritability M. R. DOHM Volume 16 Number 3 June 2002 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Determinants of within- and among-clutch variation in levels of maternal hormones in Black-Headed Gull eggs T. G. GROOTHUIS & H. SCHWABL Does pregnancy affect swimming performance of female Mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis? I. PLAUT Ecological correlates of endozoochory by herbivores R. J. PAKEMAN, G. DIGNEFFE & J. L. SMALL Nest scrape design and clutch heat loss in Pectoral Sandpipers (Calidris melanotos) J. M. REID, W. CRESSWELL, S. HOLT, R. J. MELLANBY, D. P. WHITFIELD & G. D. RUXTON Food pulses increase longevity and induce cyclical egg production in Mediterranean fruit flies J. R. CAREY, P. LIEDO, L. HARSHMAN, X. LIU, H.-G. MULLER, L. PARTRIDGE & J.-L. WANG The balanced-growth hypothesis and the allometry of leaf and root biomass allocation B. SHIPLEY & D. MEZIANE Metabolic cold adaptation in insects: a large-scale perspective A. ADDO-BEDIAKO, S. L. CHOWN & K. J. GASTON Mussel valve discrimination and strategies used in valve discrimination by the Oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus R. NAGARAJAN, S. E. G. LEA & J. D. GOSS-CUSTARD Species-level versus community-level patterns of mycorrhizal dependence on phosphorus: an example of Simpson’s paradox V. J. ALLISON & D. E. GOLDBERG Survival of terrestrial soil-dwelling arthropods on and in seawater: implications for trans-oceanic dispersal S. J. COULSON, I. D. HODKINSON, N. R. WEBB & J. A. HARRISON Effects of low calcium concentrations on two common freshwater crustaceans, Gammarus lacustris and Astacus astacus N. A. RUKKE Desert shrub water relations with respect to soil characteristics and plant functional type J.S. SPERRY & U. G. HACKE Decreased heat-shock resistance and down-regulation of Hsp70 expression with increasing age in adult Drosophila melanogaster J.G. SORENSEN & V. LOESCHCKE Adjustment of tree structure in response to the environment under hydraulic constraints F. MAGNANI, J. GRACE & M. BORGHETTI The functional response does not predict the local distribution of European Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) on grass swards: experimental evidence G. R. IASON, T. MANSO, D. A. SIM & F. G. HARTLEY High leaf mass per area of related species assemblages may reflect low rainfall and carbon isotope discrimination rather than low phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations B. B. LAMONT, P. K. GROOM & R. M. COWLING TECHNICAL REPORT Modelling unimodal flowering phenology with exponential sine equations J. E. MALO Volume 16 Number 4 August 2002 ESSAY REVIEW 419 Why are species’ body size distributions usually skewed to the right? J. KOZLOWSKI & A. T. GAWELCZYK ORIGINAL ARTICLES Do shade-tolerant tropical tree seedlings depend longer on seed reserves? Functional growth analysis of three Bignoniaceae species K. KITAJIMA Patterns of yolk enrichment with dietary carotenoids in gulls: the roles of pigment acquisition and utilization J.D. BLOUNT, P. F. SURAI, D. C. HOUSTON & A. P. MOLLER Interspecific and spatial differences in nitrogen uptake in monocultures and two-species mixtures in north European grasslands A. JUMPPONEN, P. HOGBERG, K. HUSS-DANELL & C. P. H. MULDER The effect of total immunoglobulin levels, mass and condition on the first-year survival of Grey Seal pups A. J. HALL, B. J. MCCONNELL & R. J. BARKER Nutrient allocation of Macaranga triloba ant plants to growth, photosynthesis, and indirect defence M. HEIL, A. HILPERT, B. FIALA, R. BIN HASHIM, E. STROHM, G. ZOTZ & K. E. LINSENMAIR Does flight morphology relate to flight performance? An experimental test with the butterfly Pararge aegeria K. BERWAERTS, H. VAN DYCK & P. AERTS Visit larger displays but probe proportionally fewer flowers: counterintuitive behaviour of nectar-collecting bumble bees achieves an ideal free distribution K. OHASHI & T. YAHARA Roads as barriers to movement for hedgehogs C. RONDININI & C. P. DONCASTER Hydraulic differentiation of Ponderosa pine populations along a climate gradient is not associated with ecotypic divergence H. MAHERALI, B. L. WILLIAMS, K. N. PAIGE & E. H. DELUCIA Feeding methods, visual fields and vigilance in dabbling ducks (Anatidae) M. GUILLEMAIN, G. R. MARTIN & H. FRITZ Does temperature limit the invasion of Impatiens glandulifera and Heracleum mantegazzianum in the UK? S. G. WILLIS & P. E. HULME FORUM Theoretical and empirical status of Brown, Marquet and Taper’s model of species—size distribution J. KOZLOWSKI Erratum Volume 16 Number 5 October 2002 ESSAY REVIEW Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail S. LAVOREL & E. GARNIER ORIGINAL ARTICLES Assembly rules and functional groups at global biogeographical scales D. R. BELLWOOD, P. C. WAINWRIGHT, C. J. FULTON & A. HOEY Functional traits, productivity and effects on nitrogen cycling of 33 grassland species J. M. CRAINE, D. TILMAN, D. WEDIN, P. REICH, M. TJOELKER & J. KNOPS Insects as leaf engineers: can leaf-miners alter leaf structure for birch aphids? S. N. JOHNSON, P. J. MAYHEW, A. E. DOUGLAS & S. E. HARTLEY Linkages between plant litter decomposition, litter quality, and vegetation responses to herbivores D. A. WARDLE, K. I. BONNER & G. M. BARKER Species-specific patterns of litter processing by terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in high intertidal salt marshes and coastal forests M. ZIMMER, S. C. PENNINGS, T. L. BUCK & T. H. CAREFOOT Passage through bird guts increases germination rate and seedling growth in Sorbus aucuparia T. R. PAULSEN & G. HOGSTEDT Blood concentration of organochlorine pollutants and wing feather asymmetry in Glaucous Gulls J.O. BUSTNES, I. FOLSTAD, K. E. ERIKSTAD, M. FJELD, @.O. MILAND & J. U. SKAARE Nutritional stress changes sex-specific reproductive allocation in the simultaneously hermaphroditic land snail Arianta arbustorum R. LOCHER & B. BAUR Leaf size and foraging for light in a sclerophyll woodland J.G. BRAGG & M. WESTOBY Effects of temperature and food quality on anuran larval growth and metamorphosis D. ALVAREZ & A. G. NICIEZA Flowering, growth and defence in the two sexes: consequences of herbivore exclusion for Salix polaris C. F. DORMANN & C. SKARPE Host provenance effects on germination and establishment of two New Zealand mistletoes (Loranthaceae) D. A. NORTON, J.J. LADLEY & A. D. SPARROW Soil organic matter distribution and below-ground competition between Calluna vulgaris and Nardus stricta D. R. GENNEY, I. J. ALEXANDER & S. E. HARTLEY Energy requirements of female Macaroni Penguins breeding at South Georgia J. A. GREEN, P. J. BUTLER, A. J. WOAKES & I. L. BOYD Trade-offs between net assimilation rate and specific leaf area in determining relative growth rate: relationship with daily irradiance B. SHIPLEY Environmental randomness underlies morphological complexity of colonial diatoms S. 1. PASSY TECHNICAL REPORT In situ water absorption by tree fine roots measured in real time using miniature san-flow gauges H. CONERS & C. LEUSCHNER Volume 16 Number 6 December 2002 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Determinants of postfire flowering in the geophytic grass Ehrharta capensis G. A. VERBOOM, W. D. STOCK & H. P. LINDER Temporospatial constraints in resources available to and used by hermit crabs: tests of models D. K. A. BARNES & S. DE GRAVE Leaf senescence and resorption as mechanisms of maximizing photosynthetic production during canopy development at N limitation O. FRANKLIN & G. I. AGREN Senescence and food limitation in a slowly ageing spider J. MOYA-LARANO Nutrients, arbuscular mycorrhizas and competition interact to influence seed production and germination success in Achillea millefolium V. J. ALLISON The physiology of host feeding in parasitic wasps: implications for survival D. GIRON, A. RIVERO, N. MANDON, E. DARROUZET & J. CASAS Phosphorus uptake, not carbon transfer, explains arbuscular mycorrhizal enhancement of Centaurea maculosa in the presence of native grassland species C. A. ZABINSKI, L. QUINN & R. M. CALLAWAY Predicted and observed maximum prey size — snake size allometry R. B. KING Spatial variation in ant and rodent post-dispersal predation of vertebrate-dispersed seeds P. J. REY, J. L. GARRIDO, J. M. ALCANTARA, J. M. RAMIREZ, A. AGUILERA, L. GARCIA, A. J. MANZANEDA & R. FERNANDEZ A trade-off between clutch size and incubation efficiency in the Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica S. M. ENGSTRAND & D. M. BRYANT Competitive status influences tree-growth responses to elevated CO, and O, in aggrading aspen stands E. P., MCDONALD, E. L. KRUGER, D. E. RIEMENSCHNEIDER & J. G. SEBRANDS Influence of venom availability on a spider’s prey-choice behaviour B. WULLSCHLEGER & W. NENTWIG Shade acclimation of rainforest leaves to colonization by lichens P. A. ANTHONY, J. A.M. HOLTUM & B. R. JACKES Effect of caudal autotomy on locomotor performance in a viviparous skink, Niveoscincus metallicus D. G. CHAPPLE & R. SWAIN Leaf-level nitrogen-use efficiency of canopy and understorey species in a beech forest Y. YASUMURA, K. HIKOSAKA, K. MATSUI & T. HIROSE Phenotypic plasticity of body size at different temperatures in a planktonic rotifer: mechanisms and adaptive significance C. P. STELZER Relationships between head size, bite force, prey handling efficiency and diet in two sympatric lacertid lizards D. VERWAIJEN, R. VAN DAMME & A. HERREL Quantifying woodland structure and habitat quality for birds using airborne laser scanning S. A. HINSLEY, R. A. HILL, D. L. A. GAVEAU & P. E. BELLAMY FORUMS Does photoinhibition avoidance explain divarication in the New Zealand flora? C.H. LUSK Photoinhibition, acclimation and New Zealand’s divaricate plants: a reply to Lusk M. H. TURNBULL, C. J. HOWELL, R. CHRISTIAN & D. KELLY What is functional androdioecy? J.R. PANNELL Coping with herbivores and pathogens: a model of optimal root turnover R. D. YANAI & D. M. EISSENSTAT Author index Subject index